I wish they weren't so hard to come by.

How did you set up that air quality sensor? Can you post a link to it?

If anyone is reading this and can answer a little further: What are some emerging technologies that can be broken into without a university degree? I've been very successful in my 7 year career as a field service engineer on chip equipment, and while it is a great job, I am actively looking to branch out into coding, or another field in tech. The enormity of different fields contained therein is overwhelming. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

I can only assume your account is satire.

It's fun for the people in San Jose who don't have many buildings in their city more historic than the 1970s. I just despise San Jose so please disregard my biased statements if I'm off base here. While Santana Row may be fun, it has zero charm to it. Coming from someone who grew up on cobblestone city streets built in the 1700s...

Oh I used to live in London, by St. Saviours, so you know that stuff is old as all heck. I still enjoy new stuff too.

Assuming we could see it. I'm not a physicist but I have read this book series called The Three Body Problem, in which we discover alien structures, but in the fourth dimension.

The three body problem is more magical realism than scientific really.

thanks for spoiling it! i was meaning to read it.

The 4th dimension is used as more of a metaphor or minor plot point. The series has a much more valuable message.

Definitely still read it, that's not a spoiler. The implications of the Dark Forest are very pertinent to this sort of search for other life.

That’s hardly a spoiler

I'd definitely consider it one and would've dropped the book if someone had told me just when I started it.

That's hilarious and disgusting!

Thanks. I hadn't realized until now how many typos were left in that. At least the message came across.

Not OP but I was recommended to HN by my brother as an alternative to Reddit, which we've both mostly moved on from. I'm not a programmer in any capacity. I work in chip manufacturing, but on the factory floor. Never completed any formal education past high school. So, very different from most of you guys. I just like reading, and this site is absolutely wonderful for that. I love that comments are highly encouraged to have some "meat" to them. No overused, hacky jokes or quibbling arguments. Anyway, my two cents. Plenty of non programmers in here.

Thanks for that insight.

I was just curious how folks outside of startup & tech find their way to HN.

I haven't got further than high school education either and I'm sure many on here neither.

There is a difference between education and learning.

Seth Godin has a good episode about this on his latest podcast in the QA section.

Listen from 14:00 onwards.

https://podcasts.podinstall.com/seth-godin-akimbo-podcast-se...

>Gig workers can find themselves at the whims of an app’s black-box algorithm that lets workers flood the app to compete with each other at a frantic pace for pay so low that how lucrative any given trip or job is can depend on the tip, leaving workers reliant on the generosity of an anonymous stranger.

Can we not do sentences like this ever again, please?

It's Vox, so English and journalistic ability aren't going to be near the top of the list of job qualifications.

Didn't they do that in America too? My Google Pixel 3 got an auto-update last spring that I didn't approve of nor ask for, that included a covid-19 tracking doodle. It said it would only be functional when both Bluetooth and location were turned on. I rarely turn either of those on at the same time but I hated the invasion of my privacy.

I noticed it installed one during the last system update, I think last Friday. Looking at the play store entry for it, seems like it's far from a unique case. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.ma.covid19...

Apple didn’t the same thing but prompted me to opt in or out when I did the update. It’s part of the OS.