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> What projects currently use Amethyst? I can't find any information on the site about current users.

You can find a thread containing links to current projects on our forums: https://community.amethyst.rs/c/showcase

Evoli in particular is, as the poster above suggested, a game we are developing to force ourselves to use our own engine and drive development priorities.

That being said, we are pre-1.0 and making a large, commercial project with Amethyst right now would be quite challenging. Our goal is to improve this significantly by the end of the year.
Japan adopts policy package aimed at cutting plastic waste ahead of Osaka G20
Happens a lot. https://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-new... the stuff that wasn't covered by this conviction was largely shit designed to look cool like aluminum bumpers and tow bars that would fail catastrophically.
See, that wouldn't work because if everyone is rich nobody is. As countries develop and education improves, birth rate declines strikingly [1]. As we continue to automate, the number of people we need working to support us declines, too. Naturally, even if the economy remained the same size, per capita yields over time would increase.

We don't need as many people on earth as we have to sustain ourselves, and the population will naturally right-size over time. Unfortunately there'll be a painful transition period where there's more people than work to do. We can either make work, kill people, or we can pay people to stay home and do... whatever. I'm very much in favor of the latter.

Many people derive their identity, sense of self and satisfaction from what they do. Those people will continue to work. Some will stay home and pursue liberal arts or stay-at-home parenting. All that is fine.

The inescapable future, though, is that medicine, law, manufacturing, farming -- everything we do -- will be automated. This will free us to pursue our passions whatever they may be. In the interim, we've got basic income. To be clear, this still leaves room in society for wealth and income inequality as a motivator -- you can still be fabulously wealthy in a world where the poor are healthy and secure. We're just talking about bumping up the bottom line so the alternative isn't death and suffering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#/media/Fi...
Given U.S. military budgets, this seems like a rounding error. Especially as the article claims that this was over a five year period. Four mil a year in procurement fraud is probably a drop in the ocean.
It's mostly about western world regulations, especially those from EU.
The U.S. military needs to stop shopping on Amazon. /s

In a way this is refreshing. When the U.S. military buys broken goods from a U.S. manufacturer, you get the sort of positive feedback loop that strengthens the military industrial complex. (I'm thinking the F-22 Raptor.) But when funds leak to China, that feedback loop is broken.
Did he get driven out before or after the mail bombs?
The size that ensures every person a comfortable lifestyle while maintaining a healthy and sustainable biosphere.
https://www.looper.com/32135/reasons-man-vs-wild-totally-fak...

It’s the magic of tv.
Aging South Koreans deprived of opportunities in youth embrace written word
I think you're being downvoted because your post is too nuanced.
>So much so that their lobbying power is greater than that of the oil industry.
I've noticed a bit of this from the anti-renewables crowd. They accuse green energy proponents of just wanting to increase the value of their investments. Somehow they ignore the huge investment in fossil fuels though.
Yep. What do you think degrowth will lead to if it’s done in the context of growth?

Nature doesn’t reward restraint, either in that kind of productivity or the other kind of productivity.
Thank you so much for the reference to “mostly adequate guide to FP” book. It looks incredibly easy to read. As someone who is fluent in JS and dabbled in FP this is right down my alley, and the style of text itself is actually quite funny and conversational - I love that.

I’ve noticed that a _a lot of_ stuff written about FP tries to emulate this fun and easy going style - I wonder why that is. I still refer to clojure’s “re-frame” docs as the epitome of technical literature - a text so good you can read it in its own right just for the fun of it.

I don’t want to diminish other languages’ communities of course, as this is totally anecdotal. I’ve found awesome prose in other places as well (mostly ruby/python) but I just encounter those funny gems more often reading about FP.
A Peer to Peer Voting Algorithm [pdf]
its unfortunate that dynamic interpreted languages with easy uptake for small projects get so popular, and then big, serious things have to eat the performance penalty for years and years. The world could use a language that is 'easy' like python/ruby but fast.

Something like a simplified nim/f# with type inference. So it feels dynamic as you code but isn't really.

Or yes if the normal way to run python was with a top notch jit that would be a big plus.
Just one point, but I know that we submitted a complaint to the DOJ about Google’s sudden maps and street view API pricing changes. Their “free until there’s no competition, then we take all of your money” business model fits in the antitrust regulations. We’re hoping they include that.
Ahh I see what you’re saying and I don’t particularly care where the audio is sourced from, so long as I can’t accidentally delete it. The file system is not designed for many dimensional indexing, it just indexes by path. You need software that query to make sense of thousands of files.
I see that you have no personal experience of the topic, and are just talking through your hat.

That is permitted here, but I am likewise permitted to point it out. Please acquire some life experience before holding forth on this topic in the future.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142
Ueno zoo's giant panda cub Xiang Xiang return to China postponed to 2020
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. You created a doozy here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So, just to put this straight, he/she didn’t give any factual informations about the White House advisor.
I don't like the gatekeeping "make games, not engines" attitude. People want to hack on projects that are interesting, and low-level game code is interesting. This isn't a case in which where people can get hurt or lose money if the project doesn't work, like Cryptocat or Mt. Gox or whatever. For a project like Amethyst, the worst thing that can happen is that we discover that certain techniques don't work well for games in Rust--which is itself a valuable result!
This is not a first amendment issue, this is leveraging a monopolistic market share to force technologies like amp on customers.
For the Spelling Bee, 472k Words May Not Be Enough
Amazon could very well be the next target. Their practice of driving out smaller resellers in a category and then jacking up prices could be looked at as an antitrust issue.
It's fantastic at scale for web applications (far better than the REST apis it has replaced since over-fetching isn't a concern). I don't work on content sites or anything where edge caching applies though, so YMMV. (All our static content is served via CDN but API content is not generally cachable).
After Kawasaki, support groups worry all recluses be painted with the same brush
Why not commit suicide then? Serious question I'm wondering what their rationalization is.
Currently my desktop keyboard, ereader and OP-1 have mini USB. Guess I'll be stuck with it for a long time
> you're part of the problem

A personal attack like this makes a hellish thread worse still. We ban accounts that post like that. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and following them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
YouTube for iOS does something similar when clicking a hyperlink; it'll give you a popup for what browser, Safari or Chrome, even if Chrome isn't installed.
The question is: if we do nothing and just keep destroying the planet, would it be worse? Or better?
Banning single use plastic is not a bad idea. That's pretty easy to enforce against the chain stores.

I wonder how it would affect garbage collection bills.
Recording interrogations in serious cases becomes mandatory in Japan
Please don't post in the flamewar style to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't post in the flamewar style to Hacker News.

We've had to ask you multiple times not to break the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For the past 30 years (a very long period of time), the U.S. has bought mountains upon moutains of crap from China, in both military and civilian sectors. But there is not even a single high-profile hardware backdoor incident publicised, except maybe the Bloomberg big hack fiasco. This tells you something.
Pol Pot for dictator!

We need to get rid of the literate classes... Like the guy reading this... And the guy wr-
It's been 7 hours, some follow up answers would be nice...
BYD double-decker electric buses have been in use in Futian district of Shenzhen for a couple years now.
>Google has always been at the center of the tech industry.

Are you showing your age?
Hopefully this will help local printers get more work
It isn't extreme, statistically speaking, but at least it isn't what I would want in a social network. If I wanted a heavily censored network I would just use Twitter.
What does it matter to the economy if Intel's shares are low or high?
It could work if the promise was to give people time instead of a 9 to 5 shitty job, and assuring equality through a Universal Basic Income. That income could be financed with taxes on externalities. Taxing externalities would also benefit the local and more sustainable economy with more decent jobs.
Okay so where is the line? Not zero and not 40 hrs.
I understand better than you.

I've been a freelancer, temp, or contractor for most of my working life. This spans about 20 years. For the past 10 years it's been almost all remote freelancing.

I also prefer freedoms to the degree that I can get them.

I've also lived in California for most of my life.

In about 75% of the projects I have been brought into, projects were not short term, and the non-employee status was maintained long term as a way to avoid paying for benefits. In some cases I was also building a startup, i.e., I was effectively serving the role of technical cofounder over a period of many months or a few years, but the freelancer status was leveraged as a way to ensure I did not try to gain any business interest or profit.

I'm sure people will say that it's my fault for allowing people to take advantage of me. However I do the best I can and since I do not have a large social network or savings, it has almost never made sense to quit a project and therefore drop my only source of income, on the basis of not receiving benefits or equity or whatever.
Please don't get abusive in HN comments, regardless of how annoying or wrong another comment was.

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New Month, New Challenge
Hey everyone,

I'm Jamiu Oloyede.

Today, i'm trying to start a crazy challenge where I create 12 startups in 12 months just for FUN.

Should I do it or not, ADVISE me ?
If Google we’re truly committed to building a search engine that is useful they would give the user control of ranking. I hope one day we see a search engine not driven by ad incentives....
Is the human species every really comfortable?
He also sent a few bombs. Without those I think he could have lived his life in peace.
How many push ups can you do?
Driving Formula E’s game-changing electric racecar
Please keep religious flamewar far away from this site.

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And spying on people used to be illegal as well.

Now it is going to become legal in Maine — as long as you are an ISP.
Influencers with million of followers are no longer where the money is because their audiences have been desensitized towards those ads and messages, and they have learned to completely tune it out. Micro-influencers are where the actions take place nowadays.

In my opinion, much of future online shopping will be done on social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, etc... where you may see a demo photo/video of a product, you simply click buy and complete the transaction right there without ever having to leave the platform to a third party website.

I believe Instagram already has this feature up now, but its availability is limited to only big brands. They are probably using it as a pilot to collect relevant data and to optimize those metrics before launching the feature platform wide.
Just another point of view: I'm Gen Z the trend I'm seeing among my friends is not en masse quitting of Facebook, but less regular usage of some of its functions - sharing articles, uploading photos, posting status updates, commenting on random posts, and so on. A quick scroll through my current feed only shows 1 or 2 posts made directly by friends, and they're all big life updates: graduations, engagements, etc. It's certainly not like the old days where people would share an album of a vacation or post about a small quirk of their day.

But even though people use many parts of Facebook less often, it's really hard to quit Facebook entirely because a lot of social activity revolves around it. In my circle, people tend to plan events using Facebook and often use Messenger to communicate. In university, people would ask questions in various FB groups. So while no one's really happy with Facebook, it still provides several conveniences that we don't want to live without.

Also, Instagram is still very popular - much of the activity that used to be on Facebook seems to have moved there.
Rewriting the Slack Python SDK
Nippon Steel's reinvention of namesake metal could make car bodies 30% lighter
Over the years, I have moved most of my VPS to vultr, and now only 1 droplet left in DO. This story again proves my mistrust towards them. I don't like AWS because it's too complicated for my use, but now I think we better have some backups.
> you can develop fully featured projects for iPad on the web

Oh goody
Even though this is the most misanthropic comment I've ever seen on HN and I'm appalled you would consider writing it, I'll play along! Killing the only people advocating for their movement would make the movement very unlikely to succeed.
dang, I don't know if you read your comment replies, or if you're even a single person. Thanks for taking the time to moderate HN.

Even though I don't always agree with which comments get flagged / etc, I appreciate you keeping unproductive comments to a minimum.
I shaved the tip of a toothpick with a knife and that worked fine.
Er,

> My keyboard, desktop PC, printer and scanner and screen are all more durable than my phone.
Wooden toothpicks are often too thick. My swiss army knife has a flat plastic toothpick that seems to have been designed exactly for the job of cleaning USB-C ports: https://i.redd.it/79iesas532521.jpg
Like the cookie question where everyone clicks yes anyway?
I agree its not a perfect analogy but you could argue that you can go live somewhere else too.

And yes, a lot of the work is funded by the "evil stuff" but Google is trying to expand their enterprise offerings and their hardware business is growing as well. I expect those to be profitable one day if not already.
So much for 'we have 6 months supply of parts'
I do agree that diesel pollutes a lot, but if they were removed workers would still need a way to go to work.

I think the problem is that there are still cars on the road, which means the bus service (even dirty) should go to even more places and have more flexible schedules
And he did so in his capacity as a private citizen, not by exercising his influence at Google. By the way, we are quite far afield from the initial claim that Google employees wrote software for a particular political campaign.
More thinking needed. Time for pizza, beer and a small gaggle of creatives.
So where do you draw the line?? The reason Uber and the like operate the way they do is they don’t need to worry about that overhead. It’s simple and easy, unlike having people on your permanent staff.

So you say: well, we don’t like that, we will stop it. If a person works more than X hours a week for you, you owe them benefits. “Okay no problem,” Uber says, “drivers can no longer drive more than X hours per week in this municipality” and then boom supply goes down and pricing (revenue) goes up and then people start getting fake accounts etc... or just get fucked like this article eludes.

So in the end the business will always succeed and protect itself, the “employee” or “contractor” gets the short end of the stick.

Sucks that this happens.
Obviously there are going to be fewer actual employees.

Its not certain that the situation will be better if the companies stop misclassifying. However, how certain are you that the overall situation will be worse? Because we know right now the taxes and health insurance issue is a killer for misclassified employees.

With minimum wage it's kind of the same thing. Should we set the minimum wage to $1 an hour to ensure as many jobs as possible?

I agree that companies taking a hike creates a real problem. But it is hard for me to accept that the solution is to let them do whatever they want and workers have no protections from them.
Downvotes be damned, but I honestly can’t tell if this is satire.
Power systems company to build world’s first 1 GW energy storage project in Utah
Google has various programs under which employees can release code without having to care too much about the broad copyright assumptions in their contracts.

The two most popular are https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/ (which is for open source code, with (C) Google, because with open source you mostly don't have to care much about that line) and https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/ (author retains copyright, no open source requirement or association with Google at all).

IARC should be quite suitable for projects on "contentious" topics like politics or religion: Google generally stays clear of these topics (so there won't be a conflict of interest in building something like that, as Google just isn't active in that market), and the company won't have to deal with being associated with one team (versus all the others) through some side hustle they can barely control.

(Disclosure: working at Google, but far from the licensing folks. I found them reasonable to argue with, though.)
Yes just like if a lady wears a sexy dress that makes it okay to cat call her on the street. She’s not wearing the sexy dress for you ...
Amazon cell service? Company reportedly interested in buying Boost Mobile
> They didn't believe me about who I was and then gave me temporary access to an account.

What???
They got the ip, time stamp and data amount of every request you make. So unless you use a proxy with https they know quite a lot of valuable things about you.
I'm a person. I read them. I think Gary Numan is interesting too.
This is very un-evenly distributed growth however. Developed nations are at or below sustenance level birth rates and largely rely on immigration to break even. As countries develop, birth rates decline -- this is well documented and incredibly striking. Check out this graph of birth rate vs. HDI [1]. As the rest of the world develops, the curve will invert and turn negative, it's just a matter of time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#/media/Fi...
> I'm sure people will say that it's my fault for allowing people to take advantage of me.

Yes. It’s not binary, as you describe.
That's something else, but nice try.
I have no opinion on the nature of the meeting but the White House Advisor is named directly in the article and they include screen shots of the emails.

This is the advisor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._David_Edelman

See also https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/r-david-ede...

It's not like he was Secretary of State but he also wasn't just an intern.
The court invented that test to justify their ruling so of course it's highly broad. My question is do you think that's good for freelancers? Or drivers?
Childhood Adversity Linked to Earlier Puberty, Premature Brain Development
That cuts both ways - I've seen people crushed under debt and chasing fleeting moments without building for the future at all, which soon ends up being their past stealing important moments from today. You're right to call for balance, but more space flight could very easily be a part of that balance.
> I wonder when Google decided “doing evil” was okay

The moment they incorporated, at the latest. Really. When people go to such lengths to tell you "we're not evil, honest!" -- you should know where it's going.
We’re not talking about telecoms. We all know they’re a corrupt monopoly. Nice strawman.
Silver lining: these laws force freelancers to incorporate and think about building a business around that service. The reporter in that story could easily rebrand as a newswire LLC and get her old customers back.
A weaker and perhaps more achievable goal would be to back out of that state, a little, once we get into it.

I'm not PG but have had the same thought about war, and mentioned it recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19994991. Sometimes I think that the patterns of behavior we're trying to work out in this trivial internet forum are not, in the end, so trivial.
Well, Spectre is a largely-theoretical class of vulnerabilities, that doesn't even apply to chips that don't do speculation in hardware, and that is purely about information disclosure via side-channel mechanisms. It might be a bit of a concern for some users, but it's not the end of the world - for instance, the designers of the Mill architecture have a whole talk discussing how Spectre as such doesn't really apply given the architectural choices they make. And if running stuff in different address spaces is enough to mitigate it effectively, that still provides quite a bit of efficiency compared to an entirely conventional OS.
What was the issue with F-22 raptor? I’m mostly aware of the F-35 ongoings but the raptor was a bit before my time
Really? When I'm in public I see everyone mindlessly swiping through photos on Instagram. Social media never died, it just moved.
Antitrust action was recommended by the career antitrust officials at the FTC, not the politicians.

It was the political appointees (from both parties) who shut their recommendation that the FTC begin an antitrust action down.
I wonder whether a human calculating a math problems is not unlike a computer simulating another computer. Observing the hand-eye coordination of top athletes, it's pretty clear that our brains do some amazing computations, and fast. In fractions of a second, we can turn a pattern of photons into concepts, discover relationships between those concepts, track changes over time, and project all of that out some distance into the future. In other words, aren't most of our computational capabilities buried in the unconscious mind?
They are quitting Facebook, not social media. It's not like people ditching iOS don't use any smartphone at all, they'll just switch to android.
I'd be curious to see links.
Static vs. dynamic types?
The receptacle shown above "Micro USB" is incorrect; it's a Mini-AB receptacle.
I would find it surprising that Google would be OK with that, particularly because it could be construed as them contributing to some campaign. An employee writing a check to the campaign? That’s perfectly fine, Google has no say over that. An employee producing IP for a campaign? Well, Google does technically have a say over that and would have to waive their right of ownership of said IP...