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This is only tangentially related to the current administration. Onshoring manufacturing has been a supposed policy goal of the President since 2016, and that hasn’t amounted to squat.

The tectonic shift is that it has suddenly become a priority for the permanent, unelected (i.e. real) US government for a different set of reasons.

It is, but I also understand where the author is coming from. OpenGL 3.2/3.3 with the introduction of the Core Profile is where I remember the OpenGL API getting seriously more ergonomic - no screwing around with GLEW to load extensions for basic functionality, etc.

Similarly, gtkmm is so much cleaner than Qt as a modern C++ library with none of the preprocessor / codegen quirks. Unfortunately it limits the platform reach, because GTK isn't really polished anywhere except Linux.

I raise a toast to the obsession with clean code and clean design. Sometimes "works on my machine" is the counter to "worse is better." At the same time, it's pretty inconvenient for me to use the software. Oh well.

> might want to optimize for people who want to stay long term, adopt their values, become part of the social fabric...

Why would they want that? Perhaps the best part about Westerners, and why they get privileged treatment at the borders, is that they reliably leave.

So, what?

Another salient difference: Reiser killed a person. Yarvin wrote a blog.

I think so. How many people fall ill as a result of attending any given large conference? Probably hundreds -- but conference organizers have never been considered liable for this. If the coronavirus phenomenon shifts liability in the popular perception, there's no way you can afford the PR risk of hosting a major gathering.

Ok, that's actually a lot more interesting than I was giving them credit for. I assumed they were just overwhelming the LPF or exploiting some side lobe to create aliasing in the audible range, but that's discussed in section 2.

All I can contribute is that nonlinearity in audio systems is also known as distortion, and it's impossible to eliminate entirely because every system, whether electrical mechanical or even digital, goes nonlinear when it reaches its amplitude limits. Some more gracefully than others.

Seems like it would be difficult to tease out the relative contribution of the MEMS element and the preamplifier because the preamps are typically implemented on ASICs in the same package. So that might be speculation on the authors' part.

From the paper linked:

"For the above idea to work with unmodified off-the-shelf microphones, two assumptions need validation. (1) The diaphragm of the microphone should exhibit some sensitivity at the high-end frequencies (> 30kHz). If the diaphragm does not vibrate at such frequencies, there is no opportunity for non-linear mixing of signals."

The devices tested include hearing aids, smartphones, smart watches, etc, which are all likely to include small surface mount MEMS microphones. I doubt any of these techniques will work against a larger dynamic or condenser microphone, where the mass of the diaphragm makes the system inherently insensitive to ultrasonic frequencies. There's a reason the jamming signal is inaudible, and it's not because our auditory cortex contains an ideal lowpass filter.

Turning up the exposure on the screen does not do what you think it does.

With a line-scan X-ray, the bag is well out of the beam path by the time the operator sees the image. But it's probably coming in through a 12 or 16-bit ADC, so there's a lot more range than can be effectively displayed on screen (at least with a simple linear+gamma mapping). It's a matter of adjusting the display mapping to see inside denser objects.

The X-ray source power needs to be high enough to deal with the worst case scenario of large/dense luggage. If you can give your film a 10x lower dose while still allowing enough X-rays through that the operator can clear it, that sounds like a good idea.

It just has to be traded off against the fact that deliberate shielding is likely to be frowned upon, and they may take the film out and run it through "naked" anyway. Seems worth a try, but I'd definitely use a commercial product marked for the purpose and resist the temptation to DIY it.

Not having children is assumed not to be a final choice. But in many cases, it is. The more I learn about correlations between genetic disorders and parent age (including the age of the father), the more I feel I have been deceived about this.

More generally, this problem is called Optical Camera Communication (OCC).

One of the more interesting things you can do is to exploit the rolling shutter readout method of consumer CMOS sensors to recover information with a high temporal resolution. By modulating the backlight of a video display or any other kind of wide-area light, you can transmit information optically to the phone in a way that's invisible to the user.

I'm not aware of any commercial applications of such tech, but there are enough keywords in this post to find a few research papers on the topic.

"You need antagonists, and most of those are government/institution related, but by defining yourself in opposition to them, you in-effect leave the middle class. E.g. cease to identify as someone those institutions ostensibly serve, and identify instead as one of those they target."

This describes quite well the process of becoming a political dissident. The value of anonymity is that it allows you to exist in both states at once, both of the middle class and apart from it. By "doxing" dissidents, some hope to eject those people from the middle class, or otherwise make their political activities so costly as to dissuade them entirely.

Anonymity has had a role in Western politics, of saying things which cannot be said, that dates back to at least the 18th century if not earlier. No doubt there are many on this website who will argue that speech without fear of personal reprisal is categorically a bad thing - but uninteresting? I don't think so.

I agree that this fund produce wont produce anything, but only because I believe it's entirely fake.

You don’t have any single non-degraded copy but you do have billions of degraded copies. Assuming errors are non-correlated, one ought to be able to reconstruct the original sequence given enough of them.

The idea would be to use some far-future technology to enable a kind of DNA repair that cells themselves can’t do, using non-local information from other cells in the organism.

I thought the whole point was to have an open-source, hackable device from top to bottom.

It's a red flag when you have multiple areas you're trying to differentiate in with one product. Sometimes you can hit two birds with one elegant stone. Sometimes the two goals are so inextricable that you have no other choice. Most of the time, it's just a bad idea.

The point is this: With the CRA, the idea that business owners have freedom of association is officially dead. They must provide service to whomever the government compels them to.

I think the majority of HNers:

- Don't like it when private companies do racism

- Like it when private companies do censorship

So they should just say so. Don't try to bamboozle me with tactical Libertarianism.

They can put up any sign they like, but that hasn't been true since passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Poland and Turkey are both NATO allies. That should count for a bit more than being incidental pawns for CIA / State Dept. interventionism, no?

In fact, the reputation of those latter arms of our government is so deep in the dumpster at this point that I cannot believe anyone who becomes entangled with them can claim naivety.

This idea that the USA has a deep obligation to a handful of communist ethnic militias in the Middle East is an intel psyop, and you're falling for it.

How about Erik Scott? [1] Or Daniel Shaver? [2]

These are just two incidents that immediately spring to mind to counter your cherry picking. White people are not free from the danger of being shot by police. In fact, there is evidence [3] that white people may be more vulnerable than black people in any given scenario, because scrutiny on police use of force has been applied disproportionately in cases of black victims.

1. https://reason.com/2012/06/12/family-of-west-point-graduate-...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/0...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/04/27...

I'm guessing most candidates don't have a lot of open source contributions, and "more open source" is one of the standard lines when they don't want to really explain why they passed on hiring.

Don't read too much into it. As an entry level applicant you're only getting a small fraction of anyone's attention and will need to apply Hanlon's razor to interpret most of your interactions.

It doesn't make sense because it's so often butchered. Here's the real quote from Franklin:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

So, the liberty must be "essential" and the safety must be "temporary" - and the classification as such would be the essence of the argument. It's not so much a statement of principle as it is invective.

And in context, it's actually about the liberties of a legislative assembly [1] rather than those of the individual, but that's a minor detail.

1. https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said

I've always figured that if you do this, it will be assumed that you are trying to dodge negative discrimination and will be treated the same as a White/Asian person.

I am only claiming that you are an organism that was created by sexual reproduction, and that your current state of being is a result of genetics and environment. Surely this does not require evidence.

We don't seem to get wrapped up in questions of why a particular tree is "that" tree and not some other tree. It seems to me, as an atheist, that once you start carving out a special metaphysical nature for humans you're dabbling in the religious.

What requires evidence is this spiritual "you" that was "assigned" to this planet. If we admit that, whether the mechanism is a spiritual hand or a spiritual lottery machine is purely a theological question.

This isn't some mere abstract debate - the meme you're expressing is a radical egalitarian (Protestant) system of ethics being smuggled in under a secular guise.

I prefer to think in terms of nations.

There is no such thing as a sovereign individual. Unless you refer to the Libertarian cranks hassling cops on YouTube.

In practice, nations can restrict people from moving if they choose to. Perhaps mine won't, but China certainly will.

The reason, by the way, that Oklahoma and California can't restrict migration between them is that US states are not sovereign. The original colonies ceded essential parts of their sovereignty to form a national federal government. This is US history 101.

The "birth lottery" is a metaphysical construct. There is no such lottery, in which souls are assigned at random to bodies. Each human being is a rooted thing with a multigenerational history which is (in the typical case) deliberately created. Some stochastic variability is at work in this process, but it is by no means random.

Every nation must have the right to choose the people it wishes to assimilate and those it doesn't. I should not be allowed to go kicking in doors and demanding acceptance. This is the fundamental basis of sovereignty.

The only exception is that a nation must accept those born to its own members, as stateless persons create a potential burden to others.

Veering a bit off topic here, but I somewhat recently used MJPEG for a "live preview" type of application and found support on the browser side to cause no end of frustration. Details escape me now, but some browsers could never be made to stop streaming without closing the tab, certain versions of Chrome didn't work at all.

It felt great to finally figure out the correct HTTP header incantations to get a working-ish solution with MJPEG... but if I had time to revisit it I would have tried instead encapsulating JPEG frames in WebSocket messages and blitting them to a canvas with JS.

MJPEG seems to be firmly in legacy territory and while browser vendors have to keep supporting it for IP cams, it's probably going to keep getting hit with the regression stick. Meanwhile WebRTC is notionally the correct replacement technology but the complexity is high and support is still hit or miss.

My first question was how this compares to Quorn[1], a product already on the market from Marlow Foods in the UK. It's also a single cell protein and I personally think their chicken-like products are quite good.

Google lead me to a previous discussion on HN [2]. Apparently the distinction is that this doesn't require carbohydrate feedstock [3], i.e. no dependence on conventional agriculture. Which is big if true.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18344636

3. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/electr...

It touched a nerve with engineers because nobody listens to engineers and they’re getting completely sick of it.

Engineers are paid to work things out on paper and determine whether something will work or not. Bridges, airplanes, power distribution systems, those kinds of things. They don’t use arrogance, they use math.

This isn’t particle physics - there are no “unknown unknowns” here that required a real world experiment. The economic infeasibility of solar roadways was an absolute slam dunk case.

So now we have confirmation that it was, in fact a bad idea all along. What’s the reaction? “Well, nobody could have predicted this! We had to try.” No, you didn’t have to waste all that money, you could have just listened to competent people in the first place, who all predicted this.

I mean, excuse the hyperbole, but you may as well applaud the audacity of launching Challenger in temperatures below the booster o-rings’ rated spec. Who knows? It could have worked!

I'm not, actually. My own father was one of those three hours a day dittoheads.

It's easy to identify propaganda in microcosm, it's harder to see the same thing writ large. I find that most white collar suburbanites I meet have a great number of received opinions and rarely examine the sources of such.

Could be I just misinterpreted your comment.

You're not wrong at all. The major point of departure between the two is the role of government and the welfare state - Soros being more of a social democrat and the Kochs doctrinaire libertarians.

Now that US politics are going through a realignment, the two are becoming as chummy as they were always destined to be. The demonization from both sides was mostly kayfabe.

All I have to say about that is if you think everyone's being indoctrinated except you, you're probably wrong.