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Ask HN: The True Value of Teamshares' Business?
Hello everyone,

I want to clarify that my intention here is not to criticize or cast doubt on Teamshares. My curiosity stems from the fact that it's a new business model I'm trying to comprehend, and I genuinely wish to deepen my understanding through insights from those more knowledgeable. I'd appreciate any information you can provide!

Teamshares has caught my attention for its unique approach: acquiring small to medium-sized businesses from retiring owners, distributing shares among employees and new management, and aiming for an 80% employee ownership within 20 years. They monetize through capital gains and the adoption of tools developed by Teamshares.

While many articles praise Teamshares for addressing the successor shortage issue and transferring shares to employees rather than liquidating through a fund, I'm intrigued by the essence of what makes Teamshares remarkable beyond these points.

My questions are as follows:

On Growth:
The rapid growth to acquiring 84 companies and exceeding $400 million in revenue within four years is impressive, but this expansion is somewhat expected due to the acquisitions. Shouldn't the focus be on organic growth, i.e., how well Teamshares can enhance the acquired companies? There seems to be little mention of how these companies are grown post-acquisition or their success rate.

Evaluation of the Company:
The narrative heavily focuses on solving the successor shortage and the commendable scheme of stock transfer to employees. However, shouldn't the primary evaluation of a business be the value and impact of its services or products to users? Acquisition is a means to an end in business, not an end itself. It's what comes after the acquisition that should matter, such as how these companies contribute to the market or innovate. Without clear indicators of value addition or operational synergies among the acquired companies, it's challenging to grasp the valuation of Teamshares.

I've written quite a bit, but in essence, most discussions around Teamshares revolve around the act of acquisition without delving into what makes their model sustainably innovative or distinct from merely having the financial power to acquire. I'm eager to understand what's truly remarkable about their approach beyond the acquisition phase.

Thank you in advance for your insights!
>can you enlighten me why all female artist collectives like this exist

They literally where girl friends drawing yaoi dojinshi together. It's pretty common for a group of people with the same hobby to promote their hobby to a business.

Hopefully I don't have to explain why with was a girls-only "club".
I didn't say the SBC needs to be ridiculously cheap as well, just to be competitive with others.
Is this AI generated?
Hang on hang on...

> There was a fad for putting icons on dialog buttons. That was the most obvious Borland stylistic trait. Big green check mark on "OK" etc.

This I remember well. It was a hallmark.

> That, and Delphi applications not having a minimize to tray animation due to the application window technically being invisible.

Say what now?!
Draw an control chat with your data. Here is one for your initial example: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/spc?data=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,100

It is immediately obvious that it is not a stable process.
You are correct - bellicose would have been the proper form.
Assuming you can just ask people to risk their lives to defend the state is both.

Only in the cannibalistic belief of men being disposable non-sentient material for blood sacrifices on the state altar rather than real humans with rights. It is a question of priorities, not naivety.

if you arrest an innocent person (or even sentence an innocent person to life in prison), you're obviously harming that person's freedom

This only happens as a mistake, which makes your analogy completely nonsensical. No one in their right mind argues in favor of a false dichotomy like "Yeah, we just imprison random bypassers en masse and hope that some of them happen to be criminals. Do you want complete lawlessness otherwise or what?"
Forced conscription is not a mistake, it is intentional and official violation of human rights.

Similarly with wars and conscription: without it, most (all?) states are too weak to defend and fall

This sophistry can be adapted for virtually any crime against humanity.

How states without slavery can defend against states with slavery? They don't have a significant pool of free labor.

How states without death camps can defend against states with death camps? Their traitors/potential collaborators/regime enemies are all alive and roaming free.

etc etc

In reality, however, we don't see complete extinction of states with human rights replaced by the most inhumane regimes possible, not even the prevalence of the latter. The reason of that is very obvious: normal sane people aren't exactly enthusiastic to live in, defend or otherwise support the state that doesn't even consider them humans. Specifically in Ukraine and Russia with strong animal protection laws, stray dogs right now have more rights than male conscripts.

Competing states with worse human rights (forced draft) or perhaps much worse human rights.

Yet another sneaky attempt to minimise the atrocity scale. The state strips you of all human rights and sends you to the slaughter. What much worse human rights can you imagine? The state slaughtering you directly? Is that much worse?

Here's the thing, however: people could easily escape before the war.

That's a nice try at victim blaming but they could not. Before the war Ukraine was a usual third world country and like with most countries moving somewhere else wasn't easy at all. Current refugee programs weren't available for Ukrainians back then.
Must be hard to target an audience that self-identifies as not needing your product.

You can read more in our blog post: 5 reasons a self taught person will be teaching themselves instead of reading our blog post.

It feels like reading horoscopes except the only horoscope that matters is the best one, the one you are.

You can read more in our blog post: 9 famous people who we also have the same horoscope.

I suspect the purpose of this website would be much more clear if I browsed it without adblock running.

You can read more in our blog post: 7 best reasons you should be reading a textbook instead.
> Most real world buttons are elevated off the surface to let us know it is pressable, but digital buttons now just have a white or colored pill shape around it. I can't recall the last time I saw a pill shaped button in the real world.

Well not really, real world buttons are elevated off the surface because of the practicalities of producing buttons and attaching them to a surface, some of the material has to be above the surface and some below for it to clamp on. Buttons are also usually produced as separate components and thus tend to be round or square because it's more mechanically simple and suits the most use cases, labels can be put around the button.

Computers have completely different mechanics, all buttons can be a bespoke size and shape, and they're inherently not tactile, the pill shape is just the easiest way to allow a button with variable width for variable font sized text, because it's easier to put the text on the button itself digitally than irl.
This sounds very much like Apple being maliciously compliant. Similar to their complaint against Epic Games...
I'd be interested to see what the EU makes of this.
Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust
To expand on this, "In naturally written C++ code, changing the private members of a class requires recompilation of the code using the class." -- uh, the Pimpl pattern has been idiomatic C++ for a long, long time (http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/024.htm).
> Flyde is designed to complement and enhance traditional textual coding, not to replace it. It includes a VSCode extension, it seamlessly integrates with existing TypeScript/JavaScript code and can run on Node.js and in the browser.

And with this you're already leaps and bounds better than the god forsaken azure logic app. Congratulations on shipping!
This is a three-way intersection of fundamentally irreconcilable societal developments:

- Europe is in a war and needs to conscript capable, young but unwilling fighters. Unwilling because who wants to risk their lives for cents on the dollar?

- Gender identity is up to each person to decide - there is no "male" and "female", attempts to relate personality traits to biological reality are not okay.

- Women need targeted support / subsidies to combat fundamental inequality - Women deserve special protections.
Perhaps it is for the better. The law forces Spanish society to think hard about subjects of equality and fairness between men and women, in addition to trans people.

One of the people in the article changed their gender in order to increase the odds of gaining custody over their child. Others get an immediate 15% salary increase now that they are officially female.
Think about the following scenario: I write a calculus book and the agents of this model just modify every example and every definition and change a little the ordering of the material to teach students. Now they are using my book but it seems they are not using my book. Are they trying to copy without copying?
On Firefox this is an option in about:config, no need for an extension. I’m on mobile rn so I don’t have an reference to the specific key, but it’s something like “enhanced backspace”
You should relax your tone mate. It's just an opinion. I may be wrong.

To state more clearly, I think app store and google search are two separate use cases. You may see it as a search, but the jtbd is different. I guess you can take a punt and build the best experience possible for an app store, but it would not make much of a difference because users don't care about it. Not that they are happy, but thats not the primary way they learn about apps. As opposed to Google, which is the primary way they learn about topics or just about anything new. Hence, power users on Google are a thing and it's mighty important I get to the right result quickly, and hence I want to try out newer search engines.

For an app download, the primary driver is "others are using it so I should try it too." It's not more difficult. Users may or may not be happy with the app store (and that is disingenuous framing), but they dont visit it as often to explore as they would on Google. Which is what makes the use case different. It's about what others are using, and you only find that out via interactions with other people or top lists. Hence, Reddit and other forums, plus Facebook ads, plus the sharing aspects and network effects which enable one user to bring other users. You can build a great product search experience on App store, and likely no one would bother with it.
All they need is money. The global IT industry will sell them what they want.
I have a disability. Independence is a much more important topic to me then for most people that have independence as a given. Even though you might not like my attitude, I feel that way. The day I loose my independence, and other people are allowed to decide for me, I'd prefer to end it there. I realize this might feel very strange to you, but as said, you probably dont know what it means to fight for your independence and to be allowed to take your own decisions.
I prefer the term "derived" from Mercurial. It was Mercurial and slowly but steadily morphed into what's a custom VCS now.
They're cruising for another fine...

WTF would it hold updates? What if I need to be out of the EU for 90 days or 6 months for business or travel?
There is a shader which uses similar idea to detect what kind of GPU you have https://www.shadertoy.com/view/slySWV
yes! Very much.

And turn off copilot. The code from the book is very likely in its training set. It will produce it almost verbatim. And you learn nothing.
Pretty much every gov in the world regards there being a collective duty on markets to benefit society, and some duties on some companies.

The shareholder models isnt about de facto or de jure duties, it's about the practice of governance. Should boards regard shareholder interests as the primary setters of company goals (assuming all other required obligations are met).

This was tried, but wen't terribly, as customer interests dont align with shareholder interests-- and customers were lost.

This is, another lens on enshittification -- a switch back from customer to shareholder alignment
From the title I somehow expected Planck taper window which comes up in partition of unity.

The property of this is that you won’t find any discontinuity in any degree of derivatives. Ie it is smooth in the mathematical sense. If you want to make changes from a constant function (such as not moving at all) to something else (start moving), then this smoothness is a nice property.
https://archive.vn/VsOvH
Orbit, to check when it's above you and (if it then hits atmosphere) you might see it:
https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=47853 | https://www.satview.org/?sat_id=47853U
> Who else feels like they left money on the table by missing out on Nvidia, selling too soon, or being invested in the wrong tech stocks like Apple, Google, or Tesla.

I don't feel like I've left money on the table when I've bet on red on roulette, but the ball fell on black. Our abilities to predict stock market moves are not much greater than abilities to predict the roulette.
Because that is the correct terminology in this context.
On mobile your finger is often obscuring the button you press and an animation is necessary feedback. This is especially important for things that are not booleans, for example a button to increase a value and you end up in "wait, did I change it to 5 now or was it 5 before with my press not registering?" (actual example from yesterday in a famous D&D helper app).
Yup.

Compare: Windows Services for Linux.
Man, tough crowd here with strong opinions on homemade popcorn. Alls fair in the arena of opinion but I’m tellin’ y’all, a bag of Redenbacher is easy, reliable, and absolutely delicious.
As mentioned, I have ADHD. Which means I cannot handle distractions. So I try to uses processes and tools to manage distractions as much as possible for me.

But I guess a neurotypical zoomer can code fine with a TV in the background, a podcast in one ear, insta and DMs ploinging into their notifications and slack nagging in the status bar. I cannot.
The animations are becoming.. violently choppy/vibrating over time and then my browser crashes, bad algorithm?
Then consider, this one bringing better features of all of them, and some Chinese people send pull requests to refine this even further.

It's not impossible.
For me the final few animations do some funky things... flickering, phasing out of bounds...
For my own applications I typically require only three rules to be kept, two of which most users will never even encounter, the password must:

1. be long enough (e.g. 8 characters or more)

2. not be in the list of 10k most used passwords

3. not simply reuse words present in the username, email, birthday (if my application knows about it)

This keeps it open and only interferes with truly stupid (aka insecure) password choices.

Additionally I like to propose 8 passphrases to the user so they can choose one of their liking with one click (this also serves as a proposal what a good passphrase could look like).
Only topped by Hippos!
Are you scrolling up? That caught me out for a moment.
> even "feel" does matter to most users

And I think most users would prefer software that does stuff instantly. Attaching little animations to everything is just silly and distracting. It only happens because someone had nothing better to do but still had to look busy. These things almost universally degrade the interface and I've yet to see the actual benefit of them, aside from the fact that they draw attention to themselves and make people think "someone put some work into that". When you think about it, that is the opposite of good interface design. A good interface is one you do not notice – it puts as little as possible between user and machine.
This takes me back to old days of Flash programming and the infamous Robert Penner easing functions.

http://robertpenner.com/easing/penner_easing_as1.txt
I start the music and turn on the light in my house with my voice, it would be really cool to do it in my car
They would rather allow generating images of white males than stripping ads lol
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I believe my answer is accurate. I don't know on what basis you claim otherwise. This is my work, and I'm well placed to make the assessment. My response is based on reading a great many papers and doing many experiments over the last few years, and I am confident of it.

By way of background: I studied the philosophy of ethics at university, I co-authored a book chapter on AI/ML ethics, my wife and I quit our jobs and worked for free for years entirely focused on trying to help society adapt to and benefit from AI, I wrote the actual article we're commenting on, and the article is about LLM fine-tuning -- a field I to some extent created by developing the ULMFiT algorithm.

The person in question is, IIRC, at Governance AI, a group whose work I spent months studying in depth -- work which I believe is more likely to cause harm to society than to benefit it, as I explained here:

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-11-07-dislightenment.html
Not really. A toggle is inspired by (and associated with) real-life knobs. When you imagine the manual gears in old cars, then when you move then knob it often moves non-linear in terms of visuals (because of the angle).

That being said, those toggles are imho the wrong choice. Checkboxes (that actually have a check-mark) are nicer because they show a clear "yes" and "no" so I don't have to guess which position means what when it comes to a toggle.
Leaving big markets has been done quite a few times. Most obviously when Google left the Chinese search market in 2010, something that conventional wisdom at the time said could never happen due to the sheer size of the market.
To paraphrase McNamara: "I can't measure brand damage, so it doesn't count."
But that isn't GPU memory right? On the Mac it is.
The previous state of the art was 2.371866, this improvement brings it down by 0.000314. If you're moving increments that small 2 looks quite far away.
I am sad to hear this. Good bye, master. I will show your drawings to my son.
One possible solution is for people in the EU to set up their own triaging system to triage Linux CVEs (and other CVEs, and maybe other sources of info) in line with EU law. There should be enough people affected willing to find something like this.

I am not clear how the law affects people outside the EU whose software is distributed in the EU (including open source software that is not covered by the exemptions).

>I imagine common sense will prevail and the law will be interpreted the sensible way.

I hope it will, but I would hate to be in the position of having to depend on that.
Surely this only happens because someone wasn't looking at the screen while they were making the input. They could just as easily miss whatever animation is attached to the number changing. The real solution here is to provide some kind of haptic feedback (phone vibration) or to play a sound.
Real clocks already use quantized movements, the quanta are just tiny
Imagine the potential of a Folding@Home-inspired project for AI development. What kind of powerful model could a community of gamers and GPU owners create.
In the old days, almost everyone in computing was a fast, effective problem solver. Back then, there was no money in computing, and often less money than other intellectual careers, so one only entered the field for the joy of it.

Fast forward, and now there is money in this field. And people who even dislike learning, or need guided learning, or even hate computing, are in the field. Many in the field just want a paycheck.

This is fine of course, one must eat, but this is why so many in the field today, think leaning a new language, or piece of software is some monumental task. After all, without guided learning, or without great frustration, it is for them! They cannot simply pick something up, computing related, quickly.

And to be fair, I've tried to hire, and there are innumerable candidates that literally have no idea how computers work. EG, in the old days, people would hack left right and center, spend their free time hacking, not to make their resume look better, or to gain experience, but because it was a joy and fun.

Now, that's harder to fine in a candidate, and there is no way to easily tell from a resume which manner of beast is before you.

So it's not you, it is the world that has changed. It just is, as it is now.
Yay, another irregular behaviour! If you are interested in a history of weird behaviours, take a look at https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_gnomet... ;)
> Bugs approximately follow a heavy-tailed distribution

What's your data on this? In my experience, bug fixing time has been surprisingly thin-tailed. (High variation, yes, but not subexponential.)

My experience here is also mirrored by Avery Pennarun, who observes that "every bug is the same size": https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213
Well, not long ago I was searching for National Car Rental / Enterprise near the London Heathrow airport. As I was in a hurry, I chose the first one that looks right and start driving. And somehow I arrived in one of the terminal drop off/pick up zone and hence I need to pay £5 for that mistake. And then when I eventually got the right one, that’s another 15 min drive…
Agree. That rhetoric is mostly used to defend multi-bilions companies, even when that's against consumer and market interest.
How does such buyback work? Like, for example, with retail shareholders - all the owners just wake up one day having their stocks exchanged for the money?

What happens if you are not legally or contractually allowed to sell your Astra stock? E. g. you're in the process of bankruptcy, or your stock is used as a security deposit or margin for some contract?

What happens if Astra is not legally allowed to buy back stock from you? Like if some stock was owned by some Russian investment fund, which was later sanctioned? Should Astra request an OFAC license for the transaction?
So if they use this they might need less money. Isn't this lowering the barrier?
Already answered in FAQ section of article:

> Humanity going extinct isn’t that big of a deal compared to Meta experiencing a decline in its revenue.

AI's trained for inclusivity already choose inclusivity over world annihilation. AI's trained for revenue maximisation will chose revenue over world peace.
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it defaults to off for standard-compliant mode. Which in my mind was the default mode as that's what we use everywhere I have worked in the last 15 years. But of course that's not the case.

In any case, according to the sibling comment, the default is 'fast' even in std-compliant mode in C++, which I find very surprising. I'm not very familiar with that corner of the standard, but it must be looser than the equivalent wording in the C standard.
I prefer shiny rocks as an investment.It gives few % return in a decade, which is great. It's been here for thousands of years. not some scam thing like Bitcoin
As someone with a disability as well, and who has had family members fall apart with dementia, I don't think this is a very good take.

Do you understand that most people, even in a stable state of mind, can't reasonably decide to just "end it there"? Let alone someone with advanced dementia... Maybe one day if society stops putting so much value on empty life and we can peacefully end it when it's time, but that day is likely far away.