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After what has happened in recent years with Katrina (even if it's a 100 year storm in an area that gets them yearly), Houston (more familiar with hurricanes but not as clueless as New Jersey) and Sandy (hitting a totally unprepared area in the worst way we've had in my lifetime) I'm surprised there isn't so much more emphasis on prep for future natural disasters. I, obviously, worry that climate change denial and other science denial is preventing the masses from believing that these types of storms won't become more frequent or scarily the norm. I say that it can't hurt to better prepare if not over prepare and I scratch my head wondering why it barely seems like steps are being taken to do so.

I can only speak for my local area but New York City and New Jersey were not prepared at all. I was in a pretty good physical location when the storm hit, all things considered, but we were without power for 10 days. Luckily we had a gas station within walking distance and they gave priority to people who walked up with gas cans over cars in the mile long line idling around our neighborhood.

There were a bunch of news stories about people stealing generators. Necessities were sold out basically everywhere with little chance of restocking. Things got hairy, for sure.

The amount of people who scoffed at warnings were most likely the ones depending on a handy neighbor who was better prepared and better suited to calming down and making the best of the bad situation. I think it was a much needed, although terrible, wake up call for unprepared folks.

It was really nice to see so many people band together but the main takeaway I got from it was that I've never seen my area so close to complete breakdown and eventually mass chaos.

Why we aren't doing more to prevent that exact type of fallout from something we KNOW is coming? It feels like the definition of insanity to do otherwise. After witnessing it first hand and having no idea what it would be like to live in a hurricane or natural disaster-prone area, having to deal with it yearly, I NEVER want to deal with that again. Since I really have no say in what mother nature does, all I can do is say I NEVER want to be as unprepared for another disaster as I was before.

I also realize it's not so simple to pack your entire life up and move to a "more safe" location but there has to be some sort of graph where the cost of paying out insurance, cleaning up the mess, restoring supply chains, and all the other costs that come with a natural disaster equalizes with the cost of preparing as best as possible.
11g was basically trash

Because it was lacking a tiny piece of syntactic sugar? Just use ROWNUM.
I'm already nihilistic, or Stoic in any case. Already question every social construct; this started when I read the Illuminati trilogy. Fearful of what? My happiness and depression swing in roundabouts.

I don't see any of this changing should I discover I'm in a simulation.
A look at why WhatsApp has become the de facto social network for users in India
Serious question: why are you having children in such a financially precarious situation when it’s only going to increase your living costs?

EDIT: by “financially precarious” I mean that above you said you were a new grad having difficulty finding work. I assume it is your intent to work after the baby is born (rather than being the primary caregiver) or it wouldn’t matter so much about finding work.

If your wife returns to work and you work you’ll need to pay for care and/or rely on family support. If she doesn’t return to work and she’s the one with steady employment then that’s a problem (financially).

Hence my question.
On its own, sure, but when you have 5 women saying it happened? 10? It’s always valuable reporting things to HR.
Perhaps. It’s bold to target such a strong American ally. Australia is more deeply in the US camp than most.
Maybe I just tried it at the wrong time, but several years ago I tried IFTTT for a few weeks. Events frequently fired late or not at all. It seemed useless in a situation where you needed some confidence in the timeliness or consistency of events.

Does anyone use IFTTT heavily and have a better experience? Are you able to rely on it?
Are women the only ones supposed to attempt to initiate a relationship nowadays? That's a bit extreme IMO.
I prefer built-in (integrated) batteries.
This is a sad article with unfortunate subjects. However I'm not convinced that the movement of people from apartments to vehicles is always a "sort of homelessness." I personally know people who are planning to move into a van to work remote, and there's definitely no shortage of blogs and instagrams from those people. Many of them are doing it to save money, but could live in a home if they chose to.

The real issue, as always, is the absurdly inflated real estate market.
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No, it's web scale.
It is the same government because you will still be caught for discussing the TianAnMen square event in public. It is still a taboo topic since 1989 and nothing on this matter changed so far.
> Why would anyone release a market algorithm that was proven to make money?

People do weird stuff all the time. Plus, you'd need a lot of capital to exploit this fully. The basic concept of arbitrage here seems reasonable to me.

> And if they did, by virtue of everyone jumping on to use it, would no longer work.

Yeah probably. But you'd be able to observe that when all the market prices converge.
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I worked remotely as a contractor years ago. It didn't last long. I blame myself completely and looking back, I lacked the maturity and emotional intelligence to do so successfully.

The second time I worked remotely a few years later, I officially worked at a satellite office but my team was located about two hours away. I did great with my own team but couldn't break through the politics and old boys club - not really old boys but they all hung out and had unofficial meetings and all of my ideas had to go through officials channels.

This time around, I usually work remotely 2 or 3 days a week. I'm the tech lead for my department but I also need to get some coding done. I over communicate with higher ups just so they know what I'm working on. With the level of autonomy I have it's easy to silo myself and bring code and ideas from down high if I am not disciplined.

I also notice anytime I'm not there for awhile, like when I went on vacation for a week, a bunch of contracting consultants started pushing their ideas around and were derailing our architecture based on their "theories". I have to be in the office to make sure I keep things on track.

In the positions I usually go for now, face time is important. It's a balancing act between getting things done and building relationships.
Because they would likely lose money over it.
Not everyone "decides" to have kids. Sometimes it just happens.
Your assuming that every where else follows the socialist model that American sports do i.e. a pre entry closed shop for franchises with no consequences for failure - a premier league footballer has far more incentive to play well to stop his team getting demoted and facing a massive drop in his salary.
Project Treble will improve the situation indeed but Google is still keen in having control of the ecosystem like Apple.
I hope that she can get the appropriate justice. $25,000 is a pittance compared to the psychological trauma from having to relive the trauma over and over from being discussed. I mean, fuck man, why even become a lawyer if you are going to achieve such poor results?

But I guess when you can't afford the same lawyers a large corporation can, its going to be an uphill battle. Especially now when the US courts is trending towards less class action lawsuits.

When all goes wrong you are supposed to be able to count on the law. Seems like a pretty big asterisk is needed there.
I'm taking down this post. I just posted this as a side comment to explain a sentence on my latest blog post. This wasn't meant to be #1 on HN to start a huge war on functional programming... The thoughts are not well formed enough to have a huge audience. Sorry for all the people reading this. And please, don't dig through the history...
> Not to be flip

I grew up in Scarsdale, your comments definitely aren't foreign to me.

> those who live in the nyc (ny) burbs subsidize your mass transit

The problem I see with this is that I struggle to consider it "your" mass transit. Both the MTA and Metro North are owned by the state. One of them has 300k daily riders, the other has 5.5m daily riders. 150k of those MN riders end up in the city everyday, so both groups are using state owned products, one group is potentially using BOTH (I always did when I commuted from Westchester to the financial district). The 4 commuter lines combined (NJTransit, PATH, LIRR, Metro North) have 1/3 the total daily ridership of the subway, but get almost double the amount of subsidies from state coffers. Growing up, I can count the number of parents who didn't commute to the city on both hands. Being wealthy enough to live in the suburbs doesn't mean your money is generated there. The median income in Scarsdale is $250k. I doubt that Scarsdale Flowers is the one lifting that average, so the people being taxed for it are the ones who actually use it anyway. I realize this is only one of the suburbs, but it's the one I'm personally familiar with.

> Income based financing schemes almost always fail in nonhomogeneous environments to be 'fair.'

I'm definitely not arguing for it. In fact, I usually argue against it. I'm just pointing out why I think the argument is being made, given that the subway isn't in as bad shape as the news makes it sound.
First off by no means rich for the friends, and for me I was on food stamps and living in s single parent family with 2 children and a mother making less than 16k a year.

The problem is that the things you speak you do so as if they are not extraordinary -- these are things that all walks of people have to deal with, rich or poor (minus the poverty one). These also are not personal failures, and are not the type of failures I am talking about.

And no, the perception of my friends situation has nothing to do with my personal situation. These are reflections I had long after the situation and emotion removed from the conversation.

If you are fine -- that is awesome -- then please pass on to your friends to let their group identity keep them down. There are many jobs -- maybe not the one they want to do, or thought they wanted to do -- that today with 2 years of cheap training can bring in some real cash.

I will take my brother as a example. He dealt with EVERY ONE OF THE THINGS on your list, every last one! And today he is successful at what he does, but man does he have to work hard- much harder than I do (I am in tech as well). He took classes to be come a AC repair man, and now runs his own company. Did he make shit money at first? For sure, everybody does, but as he gained skill and saved money he was able to finally go out on his own and now has 6 people working for him. Not once did he say "I can't because ... I was bullied, I can't because ... I grew up on food stamps, I can't because ... my father was a abusive alcoholic, and I can't ... because my parents divorced (twice)", I can't because just are not words in his vocabulary.

And you sort of prove my point about some thing when you bring up that THOSE experiences, the things that many many many successful people experience are the things you sight as keeping your friends down today.

While horrible life experiences are some times out of our control, how you deal with them and what you do next is.
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Congratulations on managing to be whiny and self-righteous while complaining about an entire generation of people being whiny and self-righteous.
Yea he means trading systems. There are thousands of people selling “trading systems” for the stock market, by definition none of them work.

An example is why Warren Buffett got special permission from SEC to withhold reporting his trades for longer periods then normal. If you know that WEB bought a stock today, then you know he’s done the research and it’s a clearly profitable trade to buy and hold it for the long run. If WEB had to report trades daily, he’d be out of business, he’d never be able to buy more than a tiny amount of a stock in a single day, because the next day its price would have increased at least 20%.

Selling any kind of successful trading system is to invite others into your trades and make them less profitable for you. Selling the system only makes sense if the system is unprofitable or it's so thinly profitable that selling it to suckers is more profitable.
They must trust them enough to employ them. Even if they don't think any single person they employ has "all the answers", if you listen to feedback from your employees you can get a sense of trends. Furthermore, these observations should be something verifiable. You're asking for concrete feedback on issues, not vague comments about what's wrong.
94% of the net job growth in the last decade has been "alternative" work (temp jobs, contractors, self-employed).

https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created...

Wages are stagnant, so even with a booming stock market your average worker is seeing none of it:

https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-wages-arent-growing-in-america

Just because you're doing well does not mean anyone else is doing well. You are a sample size of one.
With a large storage space, once your installation is done, from a linux:

cat /dev/sde3 > /storage/windows-vr-installation.bin

Then when the install dies for some reason, restore it with:

cat /storage/windows-vr-installation.bin > /dev/sde3

You will say it is inefficient. Maybe. On an optane 900, the burst write speed will be decent enough. Keeping .bin images that are a few Tb is not really a problem with modern setup (zfs, raid, etc.)

I know there are commercial solutions doing that, but I wouldn't bother much with that. A simple free software setup will end up being more efficient if you know some basics.

If I were you, I really wouldn't bother more than that with automation for reinstalls. You are not deploying to N identical devices (in which case the above trick may still work by having sufficiently similar workstations, and a special licensing scheme - I often buy a few similar laptops for the same reason).

Regarding native performance, since being able to reconfigure windows quickly seems very important, if I were you I would do a GPU passthrough. KVM on computers with VT-d etc offers near native performance. That's what gamers do, and I trust them for their insane attention to fps performance :-)

It may take some time for the initial tweaking (recompiling kernels, selecting some hardware etc) but it very possible, and also very stable. And it is more and more common.

(disclamer: I sell such solutions, and do various weird things for my clients -- including supporting Wine when their need for a very stable solution is greater than the costs of the time I will bill them + the specific hardware I will have them buy to guarantee the speed of the results)
I actually had this conversation with my partner's mother a few weeks ago. She likes to watch cooking competitions in the kitchen while baking. Not having watched television for a few years, I was amazed at the audacity of commercial programming-- firstly, how can anyone be so stupid as to not boycott a product after seeing such mindless, assuming shit, but secondly and most importantly, how can advertisers be so arrogant as to assume the general populace is stupid enough to buy into their crap with these awful commercials.

The mother then informed that it's always been this way, so I looked up a few old ad compilations from the 90's and early 2000's. She was right.

I'm not sure about the television programming itself-- drama, "real-life" shows have always been a hit. I remember when I did watch television, I did so hoping to numb out whatever responsibility I had to do at the time with something non-thinking enough to be calming, but dramatic enough that it wouldn't bore me. The result is the crap they've been airing for years. And I realized again that advertising is all about subconscious influence. Doesn't matter how fucking stupid the commercials are, it matters that you've seen it. Television is mindless in the way that it lulls you-- you'll soon forget what happened, because nothing much happened, and you weren't really paying attention because the programs don't allow you to process everything consciously (in fact, that's because there's nothing to process-- afterall, all of it is laid out to you clear as day. This is what happens next, susie does this for this reason, the resolution you are about to see is expected under the paradigm we've constructed, etc). If you watch the same rehashed concepts everyday, the same commercials, it will stick in the subconscious, and some time later you'll be shopping in the supermarket and pick up a pack of Charmin toilet paper for no goddamn reason even though they market their flushable rainforest corpses with bears who complain that the paper is sticking to their assholes. You make that decision to buy in a split second because you hate grocery shopping and you don't have a lot of time to debate over prices because you still have a dozen other items to pick up. How do you choose? Those bears are cute, something tells me this toilet paper is extra soft and clearly that's something I should want out of a decent quality toilet paper... idk throw it in the cart.
During the 4 years we at REEA.net tried a lot of approaches, in different projects.
1. We stream every upate as a new row directly to the table. We have for every table a view that has a naming convention "table_latest" and it targets latest version of the record. We didn't see a big latency increase.
Deleted rows have a 'deleted' flag, we use EXCEPT in the query.
2. Since DML is available we started on newer projects dual aproach, having a dedicated streaming table, and rematerializing to a flat table. It adds developer complexity but it's a win, as the materialized table is easier to be used by our marketing team.
We added to the reports "Based on data 10 minutes ago" label, and a CTA "re-run using live data", which in background calls the script to rematerialize the table and rerun the report. Our markting team loves this, and they don't abuse this functionality. On some projcts we have remateralization every 1h, on others daily.
3. regarding partitioned tables where you can stream only 7 days of window into their respective partitions we use also a complementary load job. We stream in the 7 day window. And we have a heavy "future date" use case, where we use "load jobs" to a temp table, then query and write to their respective partitions.
>If a man wants to touch you, he will. End of story.

I can only imagine the amount of outrage if someone wrote this.
Assuming I'm in a "financially precarious situation" is a bit presumptuous. My wife is an employed college grad, and we have much more saved than the average American. We have health insurance, and have already completely paid off the medical bills for her birth. We are fine.

It's still too risky and difficult for us to relocate, though. Our family all lives nearby, so we have a support structure here. My wife has an established career in a low cost of living area. Housing is incredibly cheap. We mesh with the culture here. When I get a job, we'll be able to buy a house pretty easily. It's just tough for me to get an IT job, because most low level positions have been outsourced in my area.
How so?

What is that large difference? Authoritarian states deal with their people basically as if they were their property. They dispose of their lives at will, they dictate what they think and what they work on, they take their labor at will.
I recently setup piHole to do DNS based blocking of YouTube ads. At first I set it up for the whole network, but then my Amazon Shopping app misbehaved. So I set it up just for my Nvidia Shields that we watch YouTube on.

It had a couple glitches at first, but has been working very well.
It depends on the kind of consulting you do, but this likely either selling yourself short or not framing your skills the correct way.

Generally speaking, most CEOs will respond positively to an offer that they put $1 in and get ~$3 out (with a range of possible outcomes around that ~$3). In fact, most smart ones will ask how many $1 bills they can throw at you before this proposition becomes untrue.

People who have the kind of combined skill set that 'patio11 has are relatively rare, but they need not be as rare as they are. For many people, all it takes is adopting an appropriate mindset for their work.

Location simply doesn't matter unless you are in a place where CEOs don't like money.
haha alright, who would even try to astroturf hn with ant-crypto comments? the u.s. government?

it's human nature, when some people have made lots on bitcoin the people who haven't get a crab mentality. i doubt it's a conspiracy
No. It wasn’t meant to come off like that. I was responding to the context of the story.

It doesn’t matter who it is. If someone wants to be intimate they will clearly signal it.
The article made me think of that it's still a long way to a adaptive classifier that could be shown one of two examples instead of thousands.
>if the good is a commodity whose origin can be obscured in the supply chain

Like what happens with diamonds: https://www.salon.com/2013/01/07/the_myth_of_conflict_free_d...
I can’t help but think of Snow Crash where Hiro Protagonist (and many others) lived in the U-Store-It former storage facility.

This is the the real cost of allowing (particularly foreign) capital to be parked in real estate in the developed world. In NYC for example most new developments are ultra-luxury not because building affordable apartments is uneconomic, it’s just that the ultra-luxury end is way more profitable.

But sure let’s just pass a massive tax cut for the wealthy instead at a time when corporations are making record profits.
I'm near 40 doing a CS degree and hope for a change of career at some point. Whilst I'm not looking for a mentor I hope I'm not too old.
Mexico as well
> I personally know people who are planning to move into a van to work remote, and there's definitely no shortage of blogs and instagrams from those people.

This is a very small minority. Even 10 years ago this was a hot topic in the communities concerned. I lived in Venice Beach at that time: People being force out of their homes into their cars or RVs, police harassing them and finally even suicides were a daily topic within the local community.
if you were beaten in your cage whenever you barked, and then later on you were let out of the cage. would you still have hesitation to bark?

btw I understand in Britain, China propaganda has alot of influence there.
$100 per hour for an 75% loaded contractor is $53 assuming a 1.5x overhead for payroll tax, healthcare, office, etc.
I object to this line of thoughts.

I hope I don't sound like a China apologist: the Chinese government has done a terrible crime, and it's a shame that not enough Chinese people are demanding justice, and sooner or later they will have to look back and recognize what happened, hopefully sooner rather than later.

However, packaging that as "the threat of China" is a self-serving narrative that will harm people. I guess you mean well, but in the end that justifies America interfering with other small countries and supporting their dictators, because, hey, otherwise China will be doing the same and at least "our guys" won't be as bad as "their guys". (Just don't look too closely at what our guys are doing.)

More personally, as a South Korean, America having such an opinion basically means my country is forced to "choose side", hurting our economy and destabilizing military balance in East Asia. The only benefactors are military complexes of China and the US.