zephyrthenoble

Are you implying that people on Hacker News saying LK-99 is a superconductor helped the scientific community in some way?

Watching this unfold on HN has been eerily similar to watching r/UFOs whenever someone comes forward with "proof" of UFOs/coverups/whatever. I never want to rain on anyone's parade, as proof of ETs or room temperature superconductors would be great, but the hype only serves to obfuscate the truth. At this point, I'm prepped to disbelieve because of the obvious over-hyping.

People want these things to be true so bad that they will twist every detail to fit the narrative they want. It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.

Why can't you have a therapist and friends?

What's the name of this professor? I would love to look up their research.

What kind of person would interview at a company, probably go through multiple rounds of interviews and coding questions, get the job they were looking for, and turn it down because they were offered more than they expected?

Why did they interview at the company in the first place?

If someone wasn't a lawyer and did something similar, they would face little to no negative effects socially. Why should a lawyer get a free pass, especially considering they should know better?

What does "changing the course to local" mean?

If people are using gig economy jobs to make ends meet, doesn't it still seem possible that they could suffer from the volatile pay? Why can't someone have their "freedom" and also have some negative effects?

Maybe their definition of definition is your definition of bread?

This isn't a video game. Your sample size of one is not indicative of the greater population. Don't cause people to mess up their health by appealing to the notion that they can do better than trained medical professionals. This is dangerous.

What are you referencing here?

This is an example of correlation without causation, even if your assertion that these cities are "dead cities without growth".

I have never "cleared the air."

You bring up a fair point that the study is not perfect. I would be interested to find a better study, but to be honest I'm not sure where I would be able to find one... I'll see if I can find a more objective one after work.

I'm frankly quite surprised by the initial wave of comments disparaging this message.

The facts are that women are poorly represented in the tech community[1], and do make less than men[2]. Any attempt to let women feel more accepted and bring about much needed change should be championed, not picked apart and belittled because you feel like you are personally being attacked when people are just asking for help.

1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/05/28/google-release...

2. https://www.cnet.com/news/biggest-pay-gap-in-america-compute...

I used to have chronic neck pain, and didn't think that it would ever get better. I was eventually convinced to go to physical therapy at a location near my job.

It took several months of me going in for half an hour, twice a week, but my pain started to subside. I now only occasionally get pain when I have very poor posture. Give PT a try. It really doesn't take very long and is very effective.

The "press release" links to here: http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/ACA2016/ which is definitely not the University of Toronto's Math or CS department page.

There are also a lot of people out there who would not be willing to pay the $4.64 dollars. By using this model, developers can get both the people who want to buy it through the store and people who don't want to spend any money to play it, which might end up being more total profit.

You have named a lot of applications that are native to Windows only. You might be able to get them working on Linux using WINE, but I can tell you from my experience that on Fedora 21 Blizzard games are difficult if not impossible to get working.

I don't have experience wit the other applications you mentioned.

Do you use 10GB of data a month?

I haven't tried it yet, but I believe it would work with the `--ssh=` option.

I think what I should have said is that, since I had deadlines for project submissions, dealing with Rust in its current state was more difficult than writing it in Python would have been.

I do understand that Rust is trying to become a better alternative to current lower-level languages, but my OS class is (supposed) to be about how things like kernels and schedulers work, not about college students struggling with a new under development language. So by "rather just write it in Python" I meant "rather just write it in something I already can use efficiently." I am obviously not who Rust is aimed at.

You have valid points, especially about contributing back to the community. However, I was using Rust to learn how a webserver or a kernel worked, not to learn how a language worked.

If I was writing my own code for my own use, and it didn't effect a grade or was part of important work, then using Rust and learning from/contributing to the community would be a great experience.

I am a CS student who had to use Rust for my OS class. I have had several issues using Rust so far, mostly caused by a lack of verbose documentation and examples. The basic ideas are great, but it's hard to learn about some things, such as lifetimes, because it isn't covered in extensive detail in the official documentation, and not at all elsewhere. The compiler is no help, because the errors aren't online.

I won't be using Rust again until well after its 1.0 release. I don't want to struggle with a language, I want to program in it. Rust just seems like it requires a much deeper knowledge of programming theory in general for one to use it effectively, and people like me would rather just write it in Python.