skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...whereas "independently certified" refers to a less formal declaration of the results by a third party other than the candidates and their proxies or government administrators such as election observers or independent media outlets.

Can you provide a reference for that assertion? I tried to find it myself, the best thing I found is this blog post, describing the wording "independently certified" as curious:

https://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2020/10/what-does-it-mean...
I guess that was a bit flippant. I actually think it is impressive to stick to a project for so long in such a hype-driven industry. But it’s also the reality that most projects that are in development for over a decade turn out to be vaporware. I hope that isn’t going to be true of Miegakure, because it seems absolutely fascinating, but it was supposed to be released 2015. Opening the annual devlog update as if that wasn’t the case is kinda asking for it.
> It maintains a global dependency chain across your entire machine.

There are per python binary, per user, per virtualenv installation (per project or per whatever you like) that make the conflict less likely.

Sometime packages "vendor" their dependencies e.g., there is `pip._vendor.requests` (thus you may have different `requests` versions in the same environment).

There were setuptools' multi-version installs https://packaging.python.org/guides/multi-version-installs/ (I don't remember using it explicitly ever -- no need)
> Stripe Checkout with Fraud detection - which requires you to use their hosted checkout page

Does it? In my experience you can just use their Hosted Fields which are actually really great.
The author seems to sidestep what exactly it means to “own nothing”. Here’s thought experiment home ownership(as an example) that relates to some of these issues. Consider two worlds:

A) All housing is owned by individuals. Some people own the housing they live in, and pay the maintenance for their housing. Some people are landlords who own more housing than they need and collect rent, while other people don’t own their housing and need to pay that rent. To move up the “housing/economic ladder” you need to save up for a downpayment on a house, and then get a giant (for many people, life-defining) mortgage to do it, and many people never will be able to do it. This is roughly the world we (at least America, I know Germany is different).

B) All housing is owned by publicly traded REITs. Some people own an amount of REIT shares equal to the housing they consume (rented from the same RIETs) , such that (Dividends from REITs - Rent To REITs) is equivalent to the maintenance costs they would have paid. The “Landlords” make more from dividends than the rent they pay, and the “renters” own no equity. To move up the “housing/economic ladder” people simply buy shares of the REITs. Building up ‘your fair share’ of equity is a equally life-defining economic task, and many people never will be able to do it.

If the wealth inequality in worlds A,B are the same, is world B actually any worse? What’s the difference between spending 50% of your income to rent a shitty apartment owned by a slumlord vs. spending 50% of your income renting from the REIT, which is in turn owned by the “equity slumlord”? If you rent your car, but own “one cars worth” of shares in Zipcar, are you worse off than if you own your car? Conversely, “The sharing economy” is just a "rent-a-center" economy if only a few people own the things being "shared".

What is the economy of this world? Who owns the apartment that the “Narrator” is living in? The government? The “Generalized REITs” of world (B)? Mysteriously benevolent rich people? They say “our city” but what does The Narrator do(or own) to merit living in he city more than the people “in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages”

Am I missing something here or does the author dodge all of this?
I work on Python every day on a reasonably large code base and have none of the issues you’re talking about. I’m 10x more productive than similar C or Java projects.

Dependency management is about as easy as it is going to get. We have problems with our dependencies breaking stuff, but who doesn’t?

People talk as if packaging is a solved problem. It isn’t in any language. And then they complain that Python packaging changes too much. That’s because folks are iterating on a hard problem.
> Are you pip-installing or not? If not, why not?

I am running a pip install -r requirements.txt when I do install new dependencies. I happen to be using Docker too, but I don't think that matters much in the end.
Well, if the consumers are all devs, then sure.
Can you mention some websites that you can't view with uBlock Origin? I haven't seen any and I've been using it for as long as I can remember. Do you also have the Unbreak and Annoyances filter lists enabled?
I’ve met some disorganized sales or business development people juggling a lot of proposals and client spiels in browser
And the corresponding list for women goes like this:

1. Don't date guys like whose attitude is like the one demonstrated above
Can you expand a bit on point B? What sort of things did you find in this book, and why were you not able to apply them to your own practice of software engineering?
There is an effort under way, one of which is led by Tim Berners-Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...
Spoken like a true burnout veteran.
Ah, you're right there. I didn't realize you could modify that.
Ask HN: How do you deploy your non-testing Puppeteer/Selenium scripts?
We have some scripts that we run for web scraping + web automation in our backend. We're trying to find ways to host the scripts and maybe call them via API. Does anyone know of a good technique or service for this?

Also, just curious: what's everyone using Puppeteer for (if not for testing)? ;)
According to the article, Pfizer plans to sell 1.3 billion doses in 2021 and the price (for two required doses) is USD 19.50. This means USD 25,350,000,000.00 in sales.
And it also says: "Pfizer's CEO has already disclosed that the vaccine will be sold at a "very marginal profit." "
EDIT: corrected calculation
You claim is that its off topic. But how can it be off topic when Trumps tweet is about election fraud, and the title of post is also about election fraud. Both dominion and Branford's law use statistical results for proof where the overlap happens.

This standard doesn't really get held up in other discussions on here, people mention tangentially relevant things on here all the time.
It's 11.0, and the initial release is actually 11.0.1, so there's that!
However you sugarcoat this, it's essentially shifting long term wealth away from your customers and into your pocket. People aren't stupid.

Hopefully this triggers more competition.
“MeowTalk” – How to train YAMNet audio classification model for mobile devices
Is there anyone left that refunds fees? Paypal stopped last year and AFAIK all of the other processors also keep the fee.
I've always wondered if there is a business opportunity here: a company that monitors social media for all mentions of your business and pings you about it. Maybe this already exists?
First, they haven't sunset IE yet. If the same update uninstalled IE, you might have had a point.

Second, putting the icon everywhere in your face is monopolistic behaviour. In Europe, for a while, Windows came without a browser installed, and let you pick one to download upon install. This is the non-monopolist way to make sure the user has a usable browser.

Also, that user already had a self-updating Firefox, self-updating Chrome, and manually-updating Safari on the same machine.
Apple has essentially unlimited resources to perverse the law and that's something that needs to be stopped, whether through tighter legislation or through courts making interpretation of the law in favour of consumers. We shouldn't be supporting a company trying to exploit loopholes to their advantage.
The first is an isometric view of 3 cubes. The second is a star inscribed in a hexagon
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> There is an entire industry built around tech interview prep now (books, websites, practice/mock interviews). Many would defend this practice because their paycheck directly depends on it.

Or you know... an algorithm and data structures class that's part of a serious Engineering/CS curriculum.
At the top of my wish list there is a deployment tool for web applications like capistrano / mina for Ruby. I ended up writing my own for the project of a customer. It's been running for a few years now.

Same customer, another project, I'm experimenting with a deployment system based on git format-patch. It copies the patches on the server (we have only one server) and applies them with patch. Then restart the web app.

It's fun to learn the internals by rewriting the tooling but a good tooling to start with would be better.
Recurring billing is hard stuff. If you haven't touched it and don't know what Dunning means, or how to handle upcoming card expirations, or proation, or mixing one-time and recurring purchases, then you probably won't appreciate what kind of value is provided by a 3rd party service. Its a wonderful thing to outsource for many SaaS companies. If you have a totally novel business model with unique billing requirements it may make sense to build, otherwise its almost universally cheaper and more maintainable to buy.
There’s a big difference between “millions of dollars” and “relying on a third party vendor for payments.” I don’t know of many sub-$1B companies that implement their own payments infrastructure...
My eyes go funny just trying to read all the zeroes - was that 325 trillion USD?!
I didn’t say it was. I am curious though what others consider to be tasteful about Python.

It objectively has ignored features from those languages, such as immutability, concurrency, sane scoping, functional ways of thinking, pattern matching, better REPL, etc. which have all been making their way into most modern languages. So what’s tasteful about Python? The benefits it has that I see are that it’s easy to download and run for simple scripts and has clean-ish syntax, but that’s about it. For anything larger, it quickly gets in the way.

Popularity is a confusing beast. What has made Python popular, in my opinion, is that it was adopted by scientists, but in my experience, that group of people has little taste in software and little want to figure out what else is out there.
The downvotes are maybe because you replied to a question of “is xyz still broken?” with “you don’t really need xyz.”

For me it was kind of an annoying place to make that point.

Many people use of ad block really more to protect from the surveillance aspects of ads than their aesthetics. Ads on big sites don’t really look terrible.
There should be a Nobel Prize for lawyers- awarded for the most ridiculous tortured or absurd legal arguments made with a straight face - maybe name it the Cochran prize in honor of the Chewbacca defense.
An Outbreak of Covid-19 on an Aircraft Carrier
Some people use tabs the same way others use bookmarks. Myself, I regularly have 100 tabs, easily, across several windows which are minimized.

If the browser were to lose all tabs by accident, it wouldn't be a big deal (same as losing bookmarks isn't actually a big deal for some people)
Regulatory capture is the term I usually see used for this.
Great article Elliot. You write that one should "change jobs at least once a year" in order to maximize network and salary.

Has this approach held you back at all? As an anecdote, when I was hired for my current job, I was told "we're hiring you under the expectation that you will be here at least two years."
The acronym is for Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google ... project management, maybe?
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This is the PayPal model.

Starts slowly, then add in dark patterns for FX currency conversion, withdrawals, etc. etc.
We may hardly know anything, but, comparing any field that involves humans to math or physics is an apples to oranges comparison. All it takes to do math research is time, knowledge, writing material, and, preferably, the support of an institution which allows one to do research full time. There are no pesky experiments to run, except possibly inside a computer. Physics can be the same way, but, even when it involves "pesky experiments," those experiments only depend on the physical laws of the universe, and the labor of a fleet of graduate students who have great incentives to see these experiments through. SWE research has either of these properties.
An Overview of Micron’s Automata Processor [pdf]
Amazon payments apparently does: https://pay.amazon.com/help/201212280

> If a refund takes place, you will also be refunded the following transaction fees:

> - The domestic processing fee (for example, the 2.9% fee)

> - The cross-border processing fee (for example, the 3.9% fee)

> Note that the Authorization fee and Disputed chargeback fee are non-refundable.

So it looks like Amazon Payments holds onto the 30 cents but refunds the variable part. It's obviously not zero, but for a $100 domestic charge Amazon's 30 cents is much less than the $29.30 that Stripe pockets.
Herb Sutter, C++ ISO committee chair works for Microsoft, so while not the language inventor, someone pretty important in the community.
They should charge Apple for wasting courts time. Imagine someone had legitimate case but had to wait for their turn as Apple clogged the court. Utterly disgusting.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
CloudNative blueprints 1 – architecture and specification review, and breakdown
Airbnb to Weigh 2021 Listing on Silicon Valley Exchange
The least favorite part of my job is documentation
The Sherman Act is pretty general in phraseology[0] -- it is a courts job to determine if that description of forbidden business practices from the year 1890 apply to the specific actions Apple is taking today.

[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1
How do you keep track of decisions made in meetings, tasks and their progress?
> The benefits it has that I see are that it’s easy to download and run for simple scripts and has clean-ish syntax, but that’s about it.

You say that like that doesn't count for a lot.

The ease of getting Python to do various small bits of automation is the main reason I use it.
Previously:

Google bureaucracy expected from Ken Thompson (!) to pass a C language exam (!!).

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_o...

"So Mr Thompson, you say you have some programming skills"
Maybe, but distinct from real "gaming".
The original call must have been an interesting conversation.

Credit must be due just for getting through switchboard to someone who could give a professional opinion.
For Win 10 Home, the only way is to create a temporary Microsoft-connected account to install, then create a local account after installing, then delete the first account.
Essential Math for Data Science: Probability mass and density functions
Yup. Every job I've become emotionally invested in I end up working until 9PM on Fridays and being constantly ON CALL for the sake of the work. I have ended up burnt out every single time.

Something I enjoy enough to do 40ish hours a week and can walk away from on the weekends? Perfect.
It's possible sortition could be used but unlikely to be successful. Yes, there always is corruption in every institution - part of human nature. It's not going away, no matter what ruling class is in power.

My point is - how can someone express true happiness when they are controlled by others? With all these services, there would be no justification for betterment. It all sounds like an advertisement for centralized authoritatism - "We'll take care of your wants and dreams; you just give us your all".
Above code is the servicelocator pattern. It's just for one service.
Do you know what is an analogy at all?
Apple does not have a monopoly - Android outsells them significantly in just about every market. Microsoft still has a PC monopoly. That makes a huge difference.

And yes, Apple making their device impossible to repair is evil, but their value extraction is opt-in (buy buying into their ecosystem) because they are not a monopoly.
I do think there are existing applications that provide this service (ex: Hootsuite[0]). I think a layman could probably setup Google Alerts[1] to achieve the desired results for topics they're interested in (like your company)

I'm curious how Patrick does it though as his attention isn't exactly cheap

[0](https://hootsuite.com/platform/monitor)

[1](https://www.google.ca/alerts)
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And Apple is the best (of those companies) when it comes to privacy and not spying on your every single digital move.
Are you kidding? They'd make Ansel Adams do a timed test on how to use Elements to do colour correction.
It is, unless you want to ship.
Do you handle deployment of this Python application? For me, that's where the pain points arise. I love writing Python, but deploying it does not spark joy at all, at all.
Please contribute C# programs that are "competently written".

Is this "competently written" ?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I’m on Mojave still, are you able to move or hide the FaceTime dialog that appears in the upper right when making or answering a FaceTime audio call so it doesn’t block whatever is behind it such as the taskbar ?
AWS doesn't charge anything for elastic beanstalk beyond the standard price for resources, even though of course competing products like heroku charge a lot more. I'm not arguing about fairness, I'm sure that's not a concern for AWS either, but if you have a basic product with solid margins, doesn't it make sense to account something you build on top of that product as marketing or documentation, rather then as a distinct product that has to pay for itself?
How much of a differentiator is the bundle size for your customers? Do they notice this 1mb?
I'll second the text selection (on Catalina, but the new safari). Not sure how they messed up so badly on that.

Also, safari on my iPad sucks as well, but got better with the 14.2 update.

EDIT: Screenshot here of Apple's Big Sur page NOT rendering! https://imgur.com/a/tF4TDPH
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What we have is an unregulated duopoly and Google and Apple are filling their boots.
It doesn't have uBlock Origin, and the ones that it does have aren't as good.
I've changed the title from "Stripe is now charging 0.5% more for recurring charges", which apparently is misleading, to one that is, though clunky, apparently accurate.

If anyone can suggest a better title—that is, accurate and neutral, and preferably with less clunk—we can change it again.
If the Stripe leadership wanted to exit and be set for generations they could’ve done it years ago. I agree it could be a revenue boost to prepare for IPO but this isn’t some personal greed thing
This described is perfectly
For those of you that have negotiated better rates with Stripe or other vendors - are they committed to those rates for some amount of time or total volume?

Stripe billing competes with Recurly and Chargebee. Anyone using those products that has had similar price increases? How were they handled?
Absolutely. I took the question as to why a percentage is charged for card transactions at all. The additional 0.5% is most definitely a "because they can" type of pricing and that's more an economics theory discussion. The market has shown a willingness to put up with that pricing and therefore a value proposition is set so until something changes no reason to price differently if the market is willing to pay a model with a much higher margin. I don't necessarily agree but that's a sound short-term business decision. I know from experience that sometimes going into a market with an established pricing model, however unfair, with a better pricing model for the customer can be bad for business and result not only in less profit per sale, but fewer customers making the buy decision because of the pricing model expectations that have already been set by the market. It baffles me, but I'm no economics major.
Thanks! Mostly a slightly excessive affinity for HN. But sometimes people point me to stories too.
I love how a Ycombinator company can quickly get a HN story title changed to censor the whole "price increase" aspect being debated here.
Correct — Subscriptions was the really old one. Two years ago Billing was rolled out as Stripe's separate product for recurring charges and invoice management (https://stripe.com/billing).
Absolutely, and I don't pretend to believe that every single recording someone might want to listen to isn't covered by traditional music streaming services. However, it seems to me and many of my immediate peers like most people are pretty well serviced by services like Spotify. Even several of the musicians who comes in to play at a local pizzeria I frequent self publish on Spotify, and I'd probably only end up buying half of their CDs. ;)
I miss those early 90's educative games so much.
If there's space and resources a four-post drive-on lift is superior. The good ones include sub-lifts on rollers in the middle for raising the vehicle further off its tires. Some of them can be annoyingly crowded underneath though, alignment racks tend to be this way to accommodate a maximum range of vehicle sizes.

If there's no permanent dedicated space, you can get a lot done with robust safety using simple ramps made from stacked wide planks of wood.

The first hot-rod shop I worked at in my youth had a simple four post lift and a big iron A-frame on wheels used like a gantry crane. We'd lift entire bodies off chassis or K members with it, and roll them out of the way into a corner so we could access the powertrain. It was a big shop space, usually with 5-6 cars in the air at a time, but most of the cars were on static stands. The A-frame would just move around the place as needed, it was just big enough to straddle the largest anticipated vehicle. But we weren't in a constant hurry like your typical muffler/brake shop full of butchers.
There are tons of companies that do that, with varying levels of automation and responses.
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> The practical reason is that it's statically compiled out of the monorepo and hosted on borg behind GFEs so there's really nothing to sell except the codebase and infrastructure of Google of which a snippet is the service in question, and the licensing that makes it possible is probably non-transferrable.

That's not a practical reason, if it was a small company they would sell it.

The real reason is that Google would prefer to kill the service than have it continue with another owner which would compete with other Google offerings. And compared to Google's overall value, they don't particularly need the sale price.
A rather large usage for mine is just pirating. Hosting Plex as your own personal netflix and having automated tools around that to pull new content and organize.