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CS degree or learn Web development on my own?
I'm 29 years old I put my education on hold for a while in order to just work and survive make a livng but it hasn't worked out and now I'm ready for something bigger.

I been wanting to learn web development for a while or any field in information technology I enjoy working with computers and websites.

Is it better to go pursue a 4 year computer science degree at this age or learn web development maybe get some certifcate and get hired that way.

My main thing is to get out of poverty and become a bit more successful than just making minumum wage jobs in labor construction which I do not enjoy.

any advice please would help direct me in picking the right choice of what I want to do with my life.

I've managed to download Ubuntu and played with linux for a while and some code editors (phpstorm) and learning PHP in order to understand this field. I like it so far.

I guess the only thing is I don't have any network so maybe a CS degree could help me get my foot in the door?

I live in Seattle so much opportunity here but no network for me it's sad and codefellows it's expensive.
Head movement is a useful trick but it's a pretty minor improvement. Just having a few cameras with good separation will beat it.
That explains the presence of all the low IQ dummies at CMU down the road. :P

All these claims about the cognitive problems resulting from pollution don’t adequately explain how so many good universities and schools world over are in polluted urban areas.
What's the difference between this and a normal warrant, where they take every scrap of paper and electronic equipment in your house?

If your objection is that it's weird Google has kept that data, sure. I get it, I use DuckDuckGo, Firefox, and I host my own email server on a VPN. I'm struggling to understand why this particular aspect is weird though. It seems totally normal that the government would seek this information as part of a criminal probe.
Do they become mostly useless, or do they act erratically but effectively, as some sleepwalkers are known to do? For instance, some people are capable of driving while asleep. I imagine it's not outside the realm of possibility that a sleepwalking president could operate mechanisms that will start a war.
That's an incredible feature that I had no idea existed. Thanks! Now my kids will stop deleting my apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgias_(dialogue)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_(Aristotle)

None of this is new. At all. The echo chamber is just louder now. Plato and Aristotle were obsessed with this shit, and they are the two most widely-read voices from antiquity. This is literally the value of a "liberal arts education" (small l liberal unrelated to the right / left spectrum). Philosophers have been writing about this stuff in similar terms since writing was invented, and probably talking about it before that.

More modern philosophers have written more approachable versions, but the ideas are as old as we as a species can remember.
Now there’s just the toner cartels, which also cost vastly more to buy than to make, and aren’t refillable, and also have DRM.

HP, Brother, etc haven’t run out of ways to screw us yet :(
I started on the 6502, but outgrew it.

Still, cult chip! I mean, something like the following shows obsessive dedication to the thing:

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/
I think of the laser as saving us from losing an arm in IBM's variously terrifying chain printers.
Nuclear Engineer Explains Chernobyl and All Things Nuclear Power
> The dream of someday coding on a high-resolution decent-refresh-rate color e-paper monitor is still alive!

Honestly I'd say this is possible now. Modern two-color (usually black/red) e-paper panels can refresh at 5-10hz. Grayscale only panels can go even faster, but it's not a huge problem for text. My e-reader gets around 100 hours of battery life but drops under 10 if I enable wifi and any lighting. That's running a lightly modified android. I'd imagine a dedicated os just for text and vpn/git could do quite well. Currently the only players in the big e-paper market are going for ereader or "sketchbook" markets.
Context: Kohl's is a volume reseller, clearinghouse; known for selling products on significant discount that did not sell on the first shelf the products were on.

They advertise their % off original retail to increase volumes of sales.

Price is their theoretical business, if the products were enticing enough themselves they'd not have made it to Kohls.
>Those things do happen and I think we should preserve our outrage for those moments

That creates an almost arbitrary, "this fits my worldview so I'll support rights this time" thought process. Like, "Well, this guy's a Nazi so we should trample his rights. But this woman's an abortion activist, so we should be sure to protect hers."

How do you propose we prevent ideological blindness in the protection of rights? Should we take the government's word that, "this time, it's really worth trampling rights"? Or would you create an unbiased oversight board that tells us when protecting rights is appropriate? Or should each person look at a case and decide for themselves whether or not they should take a stand against rights infringement?
If we want to hit zero emissions, the price should be set such that it exactly covers the cost of removing the CO2 from the atmosphere.

Of course, if it's cheaper to just not emit that CO2 in the first place (capture it or use a different process for whatever they're doing), companies can do that instead.
Where is it coming from, specifically?
Drum Machine Implemented in MS Excel
Yes, not having to reprint price tags is an example of reducing menu cost. I assume that's what you're trying to say with this context-free Wikipedia link.
Indeed it can, but there are plenty of ways to bolt on an approval workflow. I would be genuinely shocked if a large publisher didn’t have such controls.

No this was a sponsored piece that somebody sold to Facebook. This happens all the time, but Facebook’s PR activities are now under scrutiny.
Here are the links:

MVP: https://www.savvyscoop.com/identity-verification

1. https://www.capterra.com/

2. https://www.softwareadvice.com/

3. https://www.g2.com/
My understanding of the issue, when I was in Pittsburgh ('09-'13 and '15-'19) was that it was a combination of Clairton Coke Works pollution and unfavorable winds/weather patterns that would cause the smell to stick around. I definitely know the smell he's talking about. But it wasn't every day, maybe not even most days (anecdata, I know), and not terribly strong where I was (Squirrel Hill).

Personal opinion: lots of cities have specific quality-of-life issues of varying degrees; in the Mountain View area now, I could equally complain about Superfund sites from all the early silicon industry dumping. Overall in Pittsburgh, the walkability, easy access to hikes through large parks in city limits, lack of stress about high rents, etc., probably outweighed an occasional whiff of sulfur wrt my quality of life. Everyone is of course welcome to make that tradeoff differently!
Why not this guy? Possibly because he generated a little too much infamy and now the public wants blood. Or maybe the prosecutor believes in the defendant's guilt and thinks they can make a strong case. Maybe a mix of both.

Perhaps you'd prefer the prosecutor look at some other case but then the exact same question could be asked - why that guy?

So why not this guy?
Maybe don’t do the reboot way on Solaris...
The lack of a "call to action" of some sort does seem suspiciously absent.

The best parts I could find that addresses this are in the conclusion...

> Maybe instead of focusing on how politically active the most extreme people are, we should be asking ourselves why those who hold “more complex views” have become so inactive.

This seems like a very good question. To me, the article pointed out plenty of reasons for serious concern about the way the winds are currently blowing, yet in my experience the typical response to this perspective is a collective yawn. Perhaps the author takes it too much for for granted that readers will intuitively recognize the risks that come along with this sort of climate, or maybe he's still just laying ground for something to come later.

> When I told people I was planning to write a post about society, and the way people are acting, and the way the media is acting, and the way the government is acting, and the way everyone else is acting, people kept saying the same thing to me: Don’t do it. Don’t touch it. Write about something else. Anything else. It’s just not worth it. It hit me that what I really needed to write about was that—about why it’s perilous to write about society.

This also seems interesting, and seems consistent with my observations. People of all political stripes seem to absolutely love anything that gives reasons to hate on their respective out-group, but any suggestion that there's plenty of guilt to go around seems to get a much chillier reception. Of course, "everyone knows this" - but how many of those who "know this" also have the ability to detect this behavior in themselves, in real-time, when the topic is not the abstract nature of this human behavior (as in this thread), but rather an object level discussion about a specific culture-war matter? Next time you encounter such a thread on HN, pay attention for the behaviors described by the author, and judge for yourself.

> It hit me that what I really needed to write about was that—about why it’s perilous to write about society. I ended up going with some combination of both of these things: society’s current situation and why it’s an especially bad idea for me to write about it—and how those two things are related. This chapter focused on the first item: society’s current situation. But the second item—about how incredibly ill-advised it currently is to write about that situation—is the item we need to look hardest at. That’s where we’ll go in the penultimate chapter of The Story of Us.

It sounds like he has more to say on the matter, hopefully future installments get more into ideas of what people can do at the individual level.
> anything you put in your PATH needs to be treated exactly with as much care as anything you install in /bin. [...] it's not a security feature.

The parent was highlighting how the article points out you can overwrite root files:

> "bin": { "/usr/bin/date": "./fake-date" }

This is not possible with ~/.local

I wouldn't call this a "security feature", but I would call it prudent to not hand over root access to npm packages.

> Also, it's not unreasonable to trust npm packages just like OS packages if you know who released it. NPM names are first-come, first-served, and once allocated, they are permanent. If you know and trust the person who released the package, there's nothing wrong with trusting the package.

This is not the problem with npm, the problem is dependencies, and their dependencies and so on. I certainly will never be able to personally vet the 1000 deep nest of dependencies in an npm package I may have to use.
I think I rooted that sucker before installing everything I wanted. I don't think it's a suitable device for everyone.
Transforming Psychedelics into Medicines
I would have preferred "Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of Juissie Smollett's data". It would be more informative, but it'd further damage the liberal narrative that Jussie was "attacked by the right" and "Trump supporters are racist". If you were to run a poll, I bet a non-trivial percentage of people still believes Jussie was attacked - people do not read retractions, and once the truth came out, this was swept under the rug within a week.

And you're right, if you did mention his name it's likely that your submission would be flagged and dismissed out of hand, just like this comment will be. So you chose to self-censor instead.
> Or order him to turn over his own email.

Which they could have done in this case. So why subpoena Google?
I'm actually NOT sure why. I assume it's because we are unlikely to recognize the actor by name, so they are labeled by their profession? Or is there some other reason? Not being rhetorical. I don't know who Jesse Smollett is.
I mean, the reason natural gas makes a difference is because the USA isn't actually trying the cheapest and most effective way: just reducing emissions.
Ouch, that really hit home about Thucydides. I was going through the Classics at one point, and did get a lot out of Herodotus and some of the philosophers, but Peloponnesian War just seemed like a list of islands they sailed to, and fought at. I did get a general sense that diplomacy and debate hasn't changed much in 2500 years though.
This is a good data point, but arguably it is a point for small nuclear reactors that may (or may not) generalize to large ones.
Ask HN: Building a Better Clippy?
I'm fascinated with using ML/DL to build useful features that augment work and productivity, and for my master's thesis at Georgia Tech I'm trying to build a virtual assistant for student learners.

Do you think Clippy, the microsoft office assistant, could have been much more useful if it had learned behaviors rather than rule based decision making?

Do you think this is an interesting opportunity? Is there anything out there like this?
I'm just saying the fact that everything in the legal business is classified by "custodian", without any more context, kind of indicates that the default is not to assume ownership in the manner you're suggesting. Like, when something is legally disputed, there's a good chance people are hiding things, giving them to others, intermingling evidence with other things, etc. The system couldn't work if it assumed that everybody followed the rules. No, I'm not a lawyer, but come on.
Really loved it from first glance. I wanted something similar when I was debugging an odd problem from events last year.
I wonder how that would work when the price changes. If I put something in my cart and then it rings up higher because the price went up while I was shopping I’m not going to be happy (and I assume that violates some kind of law or regulation).

I feel like you’d need to have people scan things as they picked them up to lock in the price. Then you’d need to automatically drop the price if the price goes down before the customer checks out (but don’t raise it if it goes up).
I beg your pardon. A Carnot engine is indeed a heat engine. The heat of combustion creates hot compressed gas - on which it runs by expanding that gas.
A compressor is also a Carnot engine, you compress the gas and you must extract the heat from the hot gas or your air tank will fill with hot gas. As this cools, unless you can use that heat for other tasks, it is wasted. A carnot engine is not reversible. If you run it backwards you must submit to the equation and take your losses. They have been hard at work for almost 200 years trying to beat Carnot - he won them all, no survivors, but he gained immortality...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle

The Carnot cycle is a theoretical ideal thermodynamic cycle proposed by French physicist Sadi Carnot in 1824 and expanded upon by others in the 1830s and 1840s. read the wiki for more
These sound like implementation issues. Why does compile time suck? Do you cache compiled files and update only what has changed? Are you doing minimization and / or compressing in development? If compile time isn't under a second during development, you're doing it wrong.
You should take a look at the paper itself which is linked above. It does not require a color card in all cases, and the only information required is the depth, which can be obtained from a series of photos instead if required.
The problem is--in my experience anyway--that too many people equate complexity with quality. That exists as part of human nature, it seems, and so naturally that has followed into the JavaScript ecosystem.

I've written and maintained several jQuery applications and if I'm being honest, I much prefer it over all the tooling we have today. jQuery isn't perfect because nothing is of course, but with a little discipline I never really had any trouble maintaining a jQuery application. In my opinion, all the tooling we have today does is obfuscates me away from my code and actually makes it harder to maintain.
I think you're conflating the scraping of time-series data with it's storage.
There's folk from all over the world here, I don't have a clue either. I could probably Google a bit and figure it out. However, I still. believe that legibility of arguments or opinion is the responsibility of the author, not the reader.
??? One of the prefs in 68.* esr is "Allow Firefox to 1)... 2)Check for updates but let you choose to install them "

Maybe that's true only for non-ESR versions?
> What the author says here is better said by a dozen others. I just had an overwhelming feeling of no shit sherlock when reading this...

As far as I can tell, other writings on the topic haven't had any noteworthy effect in rectifying the problem.

Do have any insights on what we should do about the situation?
Never. Still looking for ways. JS ecosystem is immature.
I was actually agreeing with you by making a more general point, i.e. irrespective of the specifics, Mueller et. al. are super credible so I think we should take what they say as effectively the truth.

Re-reading it, I see how someone might think I was disagreeing.
Capterra model will generate most revenue as long as they rank well in Google. It’s similar to Google Ads. It’s also low touch which means you won’t need to spend a lot on Account Managers. The downside to Capterra is that if you lose Google rankings you lose revenue. Perhaps you could also charge an annual fee on top.
This happens regularly, the bee cluster doesn't wait for late comers. There are some scouts that keep going there and back but there are also scouts that do that with the "Correct" destination, so they "lead" the stray ones to their new home eventually. In the end most bees end up where they're supposed to.

It's much worse when a beekeeper takes the swarm tho. Speaking from experience, you can see "lost" scouts going to and from the temporary cluster from their destinations for days after you moved the cluster into a new hive. The reason is because there's noone going from cluster to new hive since no scout found that destination. It's a bit heartbreaking.

I collected the "leftover" mini-clusters 4 times in a row coz I felt responsible...
>USPS has been storing images of all envelopes delivered for many years now.

If this was of any doubt at all - they’ve made this accessible over email. If you enable “informed delivery” you get an email of the scan before it hits your mail box.
do we really have better solution that can handle the magnitude of power more sustainably?
Interestingly I know a little about why Tesco doesn’t use eInk price tags, having talked at length with one of the people that evaluated eInk tags for Tesco.

Top reason was simply price and maintenance. Deploy this kind of tech to 3400 stores is seriously non-trivial (something I know, from having attempted to build and sell tech to Tesco), and even very low unit costs compound fast.

Tesco top concerns with this type of tech are:

1. Price. Tesco is very capex sensitive. They generally only want to spend money on assets that have multiple uses.

2. Will it work 100% of time, or very close to it. Incorrect price tags are a serious issue for Tesco.

3. Who fixes it when it goes wrong and how?

Again these don’t seem like hard issues, but 3400 physical store makes it hard. Especially when you can’t rely on store staff to deal with uncommon problems, they aren’t given the time or training, due to retails razor thin margins.

One of the interesting non-obvious problem Tesco had with eInk price tags was simply making sure the right product tag appeared on the right shelf in the right place. This is despite has a very competent stock management system that tracks exactly what item lives on what shelf.

With paper you just swap the tags and move on. With eInk displays you can’t do that because then physical location of a tag will no longer match it’s stored virtual location.
How do you propose that works? Someone at Google searches for the information? An algorithm or an actual Google employee? If it is a human being then what about your privacy then?

What if the Jussie and his manager were using codewords to disguise intent? A search algorithm would not be able to recognise that but a human being can easily infer meaning and intent from the context. What then?

There are no easy answers.
Nope, to be clear I am talking about Prometheus' own TSDB.
Data analysis of Australian patent firms
Pittsburgh resident here. I’ve lived in four different neighborhoods over the last 10 years (and spent time at Google’s offices in Bakery Square) and haven’t experienced any of these issues. (Not to say the author didn’t experience this — it’s just that I’ve been around the same area and haven’t.)

To me, Pittsburgh’s air quality seems comparable to other cities.
Over the last few months, I've answered a few questions on how to choose a patent firm / attorney, and I've also been working on some data analysis / viz stuff on the side.

So I thought I'd combined the two and look at the publicly available data on Australian patent firms and filing data. I found it quite interesting, and it might be helpful if you're looking to find an Australian firm to work with.

I intend to cover data analysis by technology areas / classifications in another part. Let me know if you have any other questions though.
Thanks!
The courts aren't any more opaque and inaccessible than, say, javascript.
Experimentation using heavy equipment that has been modified with unlicensed and untested hardware and software designed to radically change its behaviour, in close proximity to people who haven’t consented to the experiment, should be illegal.
I'm in Australia.

I really don't! I assume it is some culture war thing, but I've never heard of this guy.

And even with that assumption I still don't know if you think it's a left or right wing conspiracy to keep his name out if it?

His identity just seems kind of irrelevant to the discussion happening here.
This is the main reason I use Firefox. Absolutely love Tree Style Tabs.
I did a bootcamp and then went on to get my master's in CS. I think it would be more useful to you to do something like Lambda School or Hack Reactor, rather than go back for a 4 year degree. A lot of real engineering skills can and are learned by thousands on the fly as they work as Software Engineers. Programs like Lambda get you the essential toolkit and teach you how to learn, while degrees offer breadth in a lot of different types of topics including some very theoretical ones and can be offbeat with what is happening in industry. If you really do enjoy it, you can always work for a year or two as a software engineer, and decide you want to study Computer Science more formally and save up for that. Just my 2 cents, and I'm someone who's applying to CS PhD programs right now.
I’m pretty sure this French actor is a household name by now.
> I spend most of my time at work in an Angular app and it sucks. The compile times suck, the developer experience sucks and it's not getting better, it's only getting worse.

> I wound up using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages (templated pages) and it's been a breath of fresh air - I haven't enjoyed myself this much writing web software in ages because I can get stuff done in very short order.

Okay, so I've never worked in Angular, so I can't really speak (maybe there are Angular killer features that justifies using Angular?), but... If it looks like it'll be simpler in ASP.NET pages, go for it!

Everybody likes lighter pages, if your app is simple * doesn't need to be a heavy Angular SPA, you shouldn't be using them.
I'm a big fan of Rust, but is this significantly different from RAII using C++ destructors?