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Ask HN: Science Hypotheses That Fail?
I was reading an article (1) that touted an awesome finding in topological electronic materials to minimize energy losses in electrical conductors. They lightly touch on the rationale that led the researchers to a hypothesis that they ultimately [presumably secured funding for then] explored empirically.

I've always thought that this represents the tip of the ice burg - the many *funded* scientific hypotheses that don't pan-out. To me, these efforts are equally important, and I'm sure the scientific community agrees. It's similar to the efforts (funding/time) invested in replicating claimed results.

Does anyone know how these 'unsung heros' (to include both the researchers and benefactors) are showcased in science media? Is this done only through citation of the 'popular' papers with successful results?

1.) MIT Uses AI To Discover Hidden Magnetic Properties in Multi-Layered Electronic Material https://atomonews.page.link/6J8Gm8xtF3ycqye48
Which of the arcade-ified versions did you play? Computer Space, Space Wars, or Galaxy Game?
You can't buy my love with money.
Anyone tested the "real" throughput of Wifi 6?

I wanted to make a point to point connection for 500 Mbit/s and figured AC will be more than enough. Well, turned out I can squeeze at best 260Mbps between 2 fully optimized AC routers with 3 streams (3x3 antenna config) at 975 Mbit/s (40Mhz band) negotiated speed.

Which was really disappointing, I was thinking AC would be faster than N, which gets around the same real throughput of ~1/4 of the negotiated speed (i.e. 450 Mbps 3x3 = ~120 Mbps real bandwidth).

So, the only real way to get a higher speed is to use more streams (on both ends) or 80 MHz of band width, which is only available on higher end chipsets and is really finnicky in most conditions.
Here are two classic youtube videos on the topic of sphere eversion; they mostly overlap, but I am posting both for double the hilarity in the comment sections :)

(the full 21 minute one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61D9x6lNY

(the first 10 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKqt6e7EcCs

If I remember correctly, I think the 10 minute one has the more hilarious comment section.
Ministry of Defense of Ukraine just tweeted:

> New Srebrenica. The Ukrainian city of Bucha was in the hands of Russia/Russian animals for several weeks. *Local civillians were being executed arbitrarily*, some with hands tied behind their backs, their bodies scattered in the streets of the city.[0]

> #RussiaWarCrimes[1,2]

JFTR, I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[3]

+ Verified Ways to Help Ukraine: https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/02/27/verified-ways-to-help...

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[0] https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1510372750665433089

[1] https://warcrimes.gov.ua/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30654704

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897
In the ballpark
I don't need your love to run a server.
By the principle of charity I sympathize with this, but this doesn't hold up without evidence. For example, what are the penalties for lying/grifting in this area? Does this all vary with the degree of corruption in the particular state/city/town? Or is it all corrupted to varying degrees nationwide?
The retail cost of a manufactured single-wide home today is roughly $50K.[0] Wholesale, en masse, sited (public land), probably $30-40K. Donated/volunteer work could lower that considerably. 41,000 x 35,000 < $1.5 billion. (That's before water, sewer, energy.)

About 1/10th the cost of conventional, enduring single-family (same site). Not suggesting that's the best method (it's not; another topic) but a ball-park figure for a proven method (widely discriminated against and widely eliminated in the past 40 years). Laws needed to prove public land and ensure it can never fall into private hands.

[0]https://www.thehomesdirect.com/blog/average-cost-of-a-manufa...
mel warped cepstra still see use and improve performance for nns, is one example.
Kazakhstan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30804120
It's the same thing. Private car ownership requires suburbs and suburbs require car ownership. In properly dense city areas (not single family zones that technically are within the limits of a city) car ownership is impractical and there's very little of it.
I had a lot of managers and higher level ICs explain calibration and rage quit (although it was long overdue) after an unfairly low review. There were extreme politics happening at the time that the current ED laid out to me in an exit conversation, and most of it came into play. I should have made way more money off of my contributions than I did but didn't play politics, and honestly, given my role and position could not. I was a resource and not a player:)
Ok, but what about raising the salaries of people in the other 10+ essential occupations?

Housing should be affordable for all, not just teachers.
Wi-fi 6 (802.11ax) can run on 2.4ghz, 5ghz or 6ghz. I wouldn't expect a difference in range for beacon frames between standards on the same frequencies, assuming they use the same power.
Yes, I know that. Also, I never said the OP was dumb.
The problem that I have with judging someone based off job experience (or academic experience) is that I usually have no idea what value that experience is. I am not familiar with most workplaces. When I have an applicant that has "3 years of experience as a senior developer at XYZ Corp", I have no idea how valuable that is. I've never heard of XYZ Corp; I don't know how good their organization's IT department is, nor do I have any idea what would be expected of a senior developer there. For some companies, this might mean 3 years of solving challenging and highly technical engineering problems, leading a team, and functioning as a sales engineer in the field. For others, it might mean they copy and pasted existing legacy code and changed field names for three years while sitting alone in a cube. And depending on how humble the candidate is, and how good their self-marketing skills are, it might be hard to distinguish between the two in an interview. Or, their skills may not be matched to their previous job position.

This is not to say that I think occupational licenses are always an ideal way of handling this: I definitely don't think that. I'm merely using it as an example that testing people's ability in an occupational setting is not uncommon.

> All of that aside, I've not seen any data that suggests the hiring practices common in our field produce better outcomes than that which I am evangelizing for. Furthermore, those practices are common FAANG type companies which can offer much higher compensation packages than a typical startup. I assert that it's not only the right thing to do, it is also a _competitive advantage_ to have a streamlined, humane, hiring process.

I 1000% agree with you here. I think that this can include some coding exercises, but they need to be very limited in time and scope. You are absolutely right that most companies are not FAANG, and should not interview like FAANG. Every coding exercise I give is very limited in scope and is directly relevant to the job position -- never leetcode or other BS.
if the most resonant one is not the one you want, that would be a noise you have to filtered.

Which is where the tuned-circuits of the radio's front-end come into play. In a sense the locations of the tuned circuits are not especially critical, in that the tuned-circuit filtering can be at the antenna itself, at the radio-frequency amplification front-end stage, or even at the intermediate-frequency amplification stage. In really good radios you would find tuned-circuits in all of those locations to increase the level of wanted signals and the attenuation of unwanted signals.
I’m not sure if you are aware of this, but the commenter is likely referring to US cities and their stock of abandoned, unlivable, or otherwise city-owned houses.

You can find houses for sale by a city where the asking price can be as low as four figures. Sometimes those houses even come with the full list of required repairs and an estimate of the costs.

Spending $20k to buy a house that needs $60k in repairs can work out for some situations.
There are millions of "Transformers Explained" blog posts by now. The one I got the most out of is "Transformers from Scratch" by Peter Bloem:

http://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers
> Your private beliefs aside, this isn't currently borne out in the US.

The USA isn't trying very hard.
"You decided to call the author of this thread (a real person) a racist because they mention imaginary racists."

Did I? You might want to read back. I said calling people racist for bringing up traffic issues could itself seem racist.

"The thread talks about hypothetical, rather than specific people who oppose development in bad faith using other reasons to hide their true, often racially- or class- tinged reasons."

Did I miss the part about classist people? I only saw NIMBY and race mentioned.

Are these hypothetical people? It seems the author is using real life experiences in this article, so in this context I assume they are talking about real, yet unnamed, examples they have witnessed. If not, it seems odd that they would offer up detailed, named, real examples for other parts, but not for this. Seems a bit hand wavy about it happening at any significant scale as well as in it's implication that people concerned about a traffic issue are all racists since there is no mention of the legitimate concern.
Okay fine. If you buy people's time and skills with money, I guess you can solve all software development problems with money.

I meant, say you want to ship [any new software product]. There are parts that are common to everyone, and parts that are unique to your product. Whatever is common to others, see what you can leverage (i.e. buy with money), so that you can make time to focus on what is unique to your problem.
The existing housing is likely already occupied. What do you do with those tenants?
> Here are two different takes on how cities subsidize suburbs and rural areas

Rural, perhaps, but not suburbs. Most of those studies play fast-and-loose with the term 'metropolitan area'. Most metros include inner-ring suburbs, outer-ring, and generally the exurbs as well. It's only once you start talking about 1.5-2 hours out from a major city does it become 'rural'.

At least with the metro I'm familiar with (Philly), the surrounding counties (suburbs) vastly subsidize the city itself. The wealthy taxpayers live in those 'burbs and commute in to work. The explosion of remote working, and the commiserate loss of city-wage-tax from those that used to commute, is already straining the system. If remote work continues at this level, many downtown areas could implode.

https://vividmaps.com/map-of-largest-metropolitan-areas/
I have wifi 6, it took quite a bit of fiddling before I got the good results I wanted. But a good first thing to check is that your network adapter had 802.11 AX enabled (on Windows, my experience is it is not enabled by default.)
The agenda is not manufacturing more vehicles than we need. Those privately-owned vehicles are idle most of the time. In rural areas, if you need a ride, book it in advance and it will arrive 5 minutes before you need it. In the city, walk 2 minutes to the nearest vehicle, and drive it to your home if you need to pick something up.

Public transit should include automobiles.
Look I'm trying to find a charitable way to read this, really. But why is your project here establishing a narrow definition of racism with a high burden of proof?

Systems and policies that have disparate racial impacts are racist. Resisting changes to those policies that would narrow the impacts is somewhere on the wack-to-definitely-racist continuum, yes depending a lot on the specific details of the situation.

What matters here is the impact, not the intention. If someone is supporting a policy with a racist result, or resisting changes to them, I'm gonna call them racist too. If they don't like that assessment they can ignore it or stop those actions.
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> > a bunch of existing code actively holds and uses multiple mutable references

> if a pure function (or block) regards all previously existing memory as one immutable region

Yes, but existing code doesn't do that. So you couldn't leverage this against existing code which is intentionally mutating shared memory. Outside of a rewrite it must continue to do so in order to function.

Unless you meant that new functions could be annotated as pure in order to avoid future errors in code not yet written?

I'm not so sure a mandatory system would go over well for C++ since many who use it want shared mutability. I'd be fine with an opt-in system of the sort D seems to be headed towards but I'm not really interested in the tight constraints imposed by Rust. I'm not writing OS kernels or crypto routines over here.
I'm not sure a lot people know that Albini ended up washing his hands of his work with Nirvana. After the recordings were wrapped and the mixes were done, Kurt was really unhappy with some of the sounds. If memory serves it was the vocals and the bass. They ended up doing some overdubs and sharpening things up in the low end in mastering. The very thing Albini specifically said he didn't want them to do. I personally think the results speak for themselves. In Utero is a FANTASTIC rock record. I can't help but wonder what the original would have sounded like though...
Are there any open-source friendly Wifi 6e routers or PCIe cards that support AP mode?

The last I looked, the Intel 6e wifi cards did not work in AP mode, so building one was not an option. And sorting through the OpenWRT supported routers and trying to correspond that to 6e models from https://www.wi-fi.org/product-finder-results?sort_by=certifi... is rather challenging. Especially since vendors re-cycle model numbers..
That an interesting experience. I've never seen someone that can take a 12 week bootcamp and pass leetcode style questions. Bootcamps teach short term facts, not problem solving or at least that's my experience. I'm not saying leetcode questions are the best (no idea) but in general, someone who can generally answer them has a higher chance of being a productive developer than someone who can't and bootcamp students rarely can in my experience.
Well no.

It's expensive for the company too. All of the people involved in the interview process are still getting paid while they are interviewing the candidates. They aren't working on their projects that they have to complete. The company probably has a recruiting or talent acquisition team and the people on that team don't work for free. The company might also work with outside agencies or external recruiters. If you hire one a candidate from one of these sources, you have to pay them too.

It's really expensive in terms of time and money to hire people. It's really hard to build a great team.
Don't forget that most jobs are bullshit.
You might have improved your original (or subsequent) comment by referencing a data point, source, or explaining why that isn't the case. Or even e.g. "source: I'm familiar with accounting rules in the industry."
Je. Sus. Can anyone give an example of this process in another (easier) country? I guess what i'm asking is, is this a local, state or federal red tape issue?
Materials are not a "small percentage of the cost". Wire and switchgear are painfully expensive these days. On the other hand, two guys with hustle can rough in a typical house in 2-3 days.
Not very actively maintained these days but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvdisaster stores error correction codes in the remaining space on an optical disk, without affecting its readability by unaware systems.
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>>if a pure function (or block) regards all previously existing memory as one immutable region, it doesn't matter if there was any mutable aliasing happening before, because everything inside that region is shared and immutable now.

Pure functions don't usually need any of this. If they are handed a pointer it has to be to immutable data or not shared by another thread.
Higher capacity optical storage is under development (see https://foliophotonics.com/ for example). My guess is that it's just hard to beat tape or justify upgrading/modifying existing optical disk readers.

The selling point now isn't that is a temporary storage solution that happens to last long like CDs and DVDs. I'm sure you have to make a pretty good case to get a customer to switch their high reliability data storage to a novel format.

I do hope it can eventually come back though.
It's a tax on the poor, and also a tax on people who for whatever reason (there are many) aren't fit/able to drive.
There are a lot of apps out there running on managed backends.
Interviews are the smallest timesink in all of hiring. I’ve personally whittled down 1000+ resumes to 2 and then those 2 interviewed with 4 people.

We found the right person though.

The number of times I’ve seen a wrong hire fumble their way into our company and burn months and months of time then we have to hire again and then the months of fixing the screw ups disgusts me.
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Interesting thoughts.

I think the impostor syndrome is more related to fear of failing the others trust, regardless of what field we have in mind.

Let's say your friends want you in their ... volleyball team. They think you're good.

And now you start worrying about making them disappointed.

Although you're the best they know, for real.

That'd be the impostor syndrome, but in this case unrelated to intelligence. Instead, a social thing, related to ... Fear of losing some of one's status? (Whatever that status is about.)
I don't disagree with you. This wouldn't be fair to tall or active people.
Every state requires pipe in many places, industrial, most commercial, large multi-unit buldings. The only place in the USA that I know requires pipe in resi is Chicago.
If you're talking about negative results, they almost never see the light of day after they're finished. I occasionally see them in conferences but almost never in any peer-reviewed journals much less pop sci media.
ngrok is perfect for quickly making local development available. It's even free if you don't care about subdomains.
I'd rather not read back because then I'd have to read a really lousy comment in which you decide to focus on a single detail of this thread you find provocative, deploy a horrid flamy 'who are the real racists' trope and then complain about downvotes, all of which the guidelines ask you not to do. Beside just being kind of awful. Just don't this shit.
Screeps is similar
The German people get a cold reminder of how stupid it was to give up energy independence and buy into the fears of nuclear energy.
Lots of pharma projects fail in various ways. Some die without a trace, others die in a multi-author J Med Chem paper that describes the project after the patents and the other dust has settled. This gets credit out for the scientists w/o risking corporate IP.
Research into who brings value, what technologies improve efficiency, has been inconclusive. The models end up with so many variables the conclusions are meaningless; any one parameter is insufficient, all the parameters needed mean no one parameter is greater than another. How can a value assessment being useful given all the required context that also has to exist? Is it a measure of value or traditional human bias?

Humans are prone to group think, belief in words of power, sigils; why believe in unfalsifiable value assessment when it comes down to tried and true ownership?

If traditional politics win at the end of the day why the belief this matrix of value isn’t just another cognitive boondoggle?
That seems... not true? The wiring in my 12-year-old home in CA does not seem to be particularly complicated, and I doubt code has changed much in the past decade. With all the drywall off, I can't imagine it taking more than a few days (for 2-3 people) to completely wire my (~1900 sqft) home.
It depends on the org.
Other than a few technical details, most of it seems to me like DIY punk cliches and goes on much too long. But I guess they know the business better than I do, hired Albini, and made a hit record, if that's what they wanted.

I though the sound on In Utero was too glossy. Listen to live Nirvana, including their official live album. Nothing in a studio, by anyone, can compare and with the live material available it has no reason to exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYNe6yu0JM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGc8jL4dzao

Admit it - you were sleeping. Was it for years? Now you're awake again.
I'm more opposed to Liberalism maximalist rather than Liberalism itself.
Often, brevity is most effective.

Source: human being with life experience.
I’m not claiming that consciousness is separate from chemistry or the mind is separate from the brain.

You could call every problem you run across a physics problem, since our world operates under the laws of physics. That’s just not a particularly useful way to go about things.

If I got fired from my job for a reason I thought was unjust, I’d be angry. And if someone saw me being angry and asked a third person why I’m angry they might say “he got fired for a bullshit reason”. This is all totally normal stuff. They wouldn’t say “his sympathetic nervous system is elevated”. That really doesn’t help the other person understand what’s going on.

Now if I have a tumor that’s smashing my amygdala, then expressing the problem in terms of chemistry/biology is helpful.

I brought this split up at all because it can be useful in figuring out how to treat illness. I think we get it wrong often. There are people in talk therapy who should get on meds to lower their heart rate, and there are people on depression meds who need to switch jobs. (And all of this vice versa).

You seem to be latched onto a specific claim I don’t even think I’m making. Could you engage with the heart of what I’m saying (the usefulness of cognitive changes in treating mental illness and how psychedelics help) and iron man my argument?
Minor nitpick, but it's actually *Chris Okasaki
All of these are used in the wild at various companies. Maybe these companies are entirely staffed by subpar engineers, but FAANG style whiteboarding is extremely gameable, especially if you know someone in the inside already, but even if you don't and leetcode enough.
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To be fair in rust you get to write .into() or Ok a lot.

I do find Go's error handling annoying but rust seems similar for line noise. It's more compact noise, but it's all there.
If the state and city are putting up the money to build it, they are the customers -- and it looks to me like they are making a terrible mistake in the name of having a free market.

Publish sets of acceptable plans, put together an expert committee to approve variances, make all the variance decisions published and binding precedent. Size the expert committee suitably for the workload. Then get the towns to specify where they want the housing to go and acquire the land. Pay contractors to execute the plans.

That's socialism, of course, so it won't work in America.