skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> “I’m a type of guy who has a very long fuse,” Love says. “I try to be as non-confrontational as I can, but when that fuse breaks, I explode.

This is me. I had what I feel was a panic attack / semi nervous breakdown on the last day of my internship this summer. It was basically a 12 week interview for a job. On second to last day I received a full-time job offer, and there where a few times where I had embarrassed myself in front of the VP and I was afraid If I got sick and vomited on the last day I embarrass myself again, so my brain just locked into panic mode. I asked my team leader to give me a ride home, and as soon as I walked in the door the panic subsided. I've still had a few flare ups over the last week; we're looking for houses now (our first home purchase) and I'll have to commute for a while, so I'm nervous about that too. I may have to stop drinking coffee and practice more meditation.

I think I just get over-exhausted and loose the ability to absorb and cope with stress, so when it happens its like any incoming stress hits my reptile brain directly like touching a raw nerve. I'm very happy that I've had the last week off to relax and rebuild my stress-buffer!
This is a cool story, thanks for sharing. What do you find motivates you throughout the different types of work that you do? Do you just feel intrinsically motivated to be busy and do stuff?
Show HN: Interactive tool for modeling net worth growth in different scenarios
Russians targeted Senate and conservative think tanks, Microsoft says
> Docker wanted to move "up the stack"

nobody who wants to make money likes being at the bottom of the stack (as it's where commoditization happens). Moving up means you have a bit more lock-in (via specific business requirements), and/or provide services that can be bought by stakeholders (vs a tech choice by the "lowly" engineers).

This is why i want my infrastructure to be owned by a non-profit. Just maintain the commodity infrastructure, no fancy, shmancy value-adds.
The difference is that telephone and telegraph are "neutral" content deliverer. On most social media, the algorithm of the company decide what you will see.

The telephone cannot force me to see more anti-immigration content. Facebook algorithm can.
Checkout TOML for a standard config that does just that.
All this bs happens because we are allowed to used capital derived from financial profit to reinvest in financial transactions - leading to a vicious inflationary cycle of increased valuations without increased value. The solution is to have two currencies. Financial currency (money derived from financial transactions (option redemptions, stock sales, hedge fund investment, etc) that can only be invested in the REAL world of products, services. OTOH, REAL currency (money derived from the sale of products[NOT FINANCIAL PRODUCTS] and services[NOT FINANCIAL SERVICES]) can be invested in anything. This simple gate will restore the synchronization between the financial and the real world. How did it come to pass that markets like the FOREX have an order of magnitude more 'value' that the non-financial product and non-financial service output of the entire world?
I think you'll be surprised at how many of the 15k actually complete the course. Asking people to write 3 sentences for the chance to win $10k is really really easy. Following through with months of work to win $10k.... not so much. My guess is probably around the original 4k to maybe 6k will complete the course fully.
The SPA improvements look to have been released as the new `Browser` package, there's some good stuff in the guides on it - https://guide.elm-lang.org/webapps/
I started programming with Turbo Pascal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

and as far as I remember I never had to leave the IDE. The step-by-step debugger felt like magic.
Thanks for sharing these. In my case, I needed a system capable of sending payments at precise intervals, ensuring that a single payment was sent exactly once, despite the job being shared by a group of servers (for redundancy and high availability). Postgres provides the central locking, so tasks can be handed out to the pool of workers, while also supporting failover by streaming to a warm-standby replica.
Foundries.io promises standardized open source IoT device security
Concur. Elm is an excellent addition to one's development quiver. Its strictness made me a far better, more careful programmer, and the push toward functional, side-effect free programming styles (something also coming from the React community) has been a huge boon to the JS world. Loving the current state of JS!
The MySQL download page is how I ended up with 3 oracle accounts because I always forgot I had one. The small "no thanks just download" button is (was) very deceptive.
Using a throwaway due to subject matter, but I also learned the hard way that cannabis just doesn't agree with me the way it did in my younger years. I had what I now know to be panic attacks a few times after smoking a bit of weed and it's not worth the risk for me anymore. It's a bummer because I used to occasionally smoke when I was in my 20s with no issue other than maybe feeling a bit groggy in the morning but now it's a tossup whether it will mellow me out or leave me a wreck off a few puffs.

Had a couple of panic attacks unrelated to any sort of mind-altering drug as well and I actually did drive myself to the ER because I didn't know what was going on. I thought I was having a heart attack or a stroke or something (which of course doesn't help the panic attack). Heart wouldn't stop racing, blood pressure through the roof, dizzy, trouble speaking, etc.

I kept the rest of the handful of Xanax I was prescribed in case I have another one someday. No desire to pick up a benzo habit but the few times I thought I felt something similar coming on in subsequent years, half a tablet (whether through placebo or drug effectiveness) made it fizzle out before ramping up into a full panic attack.

It's weird because I had thought knowing it's a panic attack and not a heart attack/stroke/whatever would "disarm" the process but it doesn't seem to matter. Still interested in figuring out what can cause that to happen seemingly out of nowhere.

Feels like a feedback loop where normally mild anxiety comes and goes in the course of daily life but in rare cases, instead of "turning the mic off" it stays on and the feedback builds to a point that is overwhelming.
I read about 30 minutes a day, using the following approach:

1. Kindle

2. Prepare lunch and dinner such that I have about 15 minutes of waiting time each time.

3. Read during this waiting time

After two days of reading this way, if I am not enjoying the book, then I drop it and move on.
Just as a data point, FreeNAS (freenas.org) is pretty decent if you're ok with building your own storage box. :)
"We have a problem."

"Solve it with block-chains!"

"You've not heard my problem yet."

"Doesn't matter!"
Well, according to Transparency International, north-western European, Japan, and Anglo countries are overall less corrupt: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percept...

However, do notice that a lot of pretty corrupt countries (south and eastern Europe, China, South Korea, some parts of Latin America) are still comparatively very rich. So it seems that corruption is not the _only_ problem, but it's certainly one.
So, at DEF CON, they had set up a server with SQL injection vulnerabilities and had issued specific instructions on how to use that to alter tables. And, this person went one stepped further and DROP'ed some tables.

I am going to say whoop de doo!

The headline is definitely misleading.

> I’m still not particularly interested in a tech career, but one day I hope to be in a position to prevent something like this from happening in real life.

The world is lost without you.
This is the same as "poison pills" right? A directory website would include some fake entries so that if they pop up on other sites they could have only come from copying the original directory.

A scraper could get around that by x-referencing the data with another source, if possible.
They'd lose their source of data
I get that, but there was still some form of vetting - enough to disqualify 2/3 of candidates.

I'm not making a big deal out of it. Quite the contrary - I don't care about Startup School anymore, whereas I did before.

Note to anyone reading this: please build a mastermind group that requires an MRR of at least $15k. I'd pay good money to be a part of that.
> as is usual the BBC never makes old archive programs available

What are you on about?

Two thousand episodes of Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr/episodes/player

Nearly a thousand episodes of In Our Time https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/guide

Two hundred episodes of the Moral Maze https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11/episodes/player
> Once people start using Elm the way it was designed to be used, things become simple and start to flow.

But how will anyone ever get anything done, when they can't make everything in their code exceptionally clear by wrapping it all up in a 15 monad thick monad-combinator? /s

But yes, I totally agree. Elm is a simpler, safer and easier Haskell for the front-end. I just love it :)
Russia, and Putin specifically, are suffering from a serious case of inferiority complex ever since the USSR broke apart. They could obviously prosper easily by integrating themselves into Europe & the west economically. Instead, they are willing to hurt themselves significantly if it allows them to inflict any harm on their "opponents".

China is powerful, but has actually been rather docile, historically. They have none of the expansionist instincts that still come natural to Russia–the only exception being a few tiny islands. The US, Great Britain: every superpower in history was more aggressive than China today.

Russia has unfortunately proven that they are very much capable of inflicting some serious harm. They are partly responsible for millions of deaths in Syria, they are undermining 70 years of rather successful attempts to make the forcible taking of territory a thing of the past at least among some nations. They are undermining the singularly successful effort to abolish chemical weapons (both with their support in Syria and their executions in GB). There's some real fear that they could test NATO, and that he-who-shall-not-be-mentioned might be willing (eager?) to let NATO fall apart. That would be an existential threat for every independent country east of Germany, and it doesn't entirely not be plausible as an inflection point that future history books cite as the cause for the next big war.
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1% of Amazon/Google/Microsoft's bottom line is a metric shit-ton of money.

It's also, more importantly, opening the door to new markets like banking, insurance and state/local government. Many compute intensive workloads in state/local government remain on-prem beacuse of the lack of Federal guidance, which means higher compliance risk.

Silicon Valley drives innovation, but the federal government drives implementation of technology.
Or course it's Oracle. Given how much of the rest of the US government they have by the short hairs, they're desperately trying to legitimize their last-horse entry into cloud computing by leveraging existing relationships as hard as possible.

I don't need a 100-page dossier to see that, even from here in the midwest.
Hey @midhunsezhi, I'm the creator of xstate and am working on the next version (very few, if any, breaking changes) which includes adding documentation on one of the most important use cases of statecharts - as a refactor target. Would be happy to answer any questions you have!
Prior to this Russian threat narrative, it was always China who was in the news doing the hacking. Our government banned some Chinese built computers for use in government due to fears of builtin hardware spy devices. There is a long history of Chinese capturing and infiltrating top secret information.

The state of the world didn't change. The Chinese didn't stop and Russia didn't just start. These types of things have been going on by multiple actors for a long time. Only the narrative changed due to opportunistic political advantages.
I was confused as well. I thought surely Elm must have reached a v1.0 release by now.
> I'm not arguing that the startup industry isn't shady, I'm arguing that it is and, much like the shady used car industry, and much like you said, you can totally find good deals if you know what you're doing.

Are you familiar with the term Lemon Market?:

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

I suspect this is what's happening in the startup industry. At least back when I was involved, there were a handful of startups that were really good, and a vast majority that were really bad.

As time goes by, people become more aware of this. You yourself agree that most startups are awful, so most people with startup experience don't have many good things to say about that experience. You see that reflected in HN threads, including this one.

This leads to negative evaluation of all startups, since it's hard to tell which are good and which are bad - and mostly they are bad.

Theoretically, a Lemon Market ultimately collapses.

This isn't inescapable fate. If the industry reestablishes some ground rules, mostly obvious ones that already existed in early startup culture, then it can get on the path to recovery.

For example, equity should be meaningful, instead of the scam it has become. There are way too many stories of companies enjoying a good exit while nobody benefits except the founders and the VCs.

There's a lot of skilled people who will not go anywhere near a startup again because they and all their friends have been burned by this and similar endemic issues.

Startups heavily recruit naive fresh grads for that very reason, but that pool is shrinking for them as profitable tech companies pay more and more competitively. Right now I think most of the top grads want to go to top tech, not to startups.

If all the best engineers, especially senior ones, ditch the startup lemon market, that will be very bad for us here in the US. Our economy and culture has benefited immensely from startups like Google that became huge success stories because they offered meaningful equity, attracted top talent, and truly disrupted their market. Unless startup reposition themselves to attract this kind of talent, this won't happen anymore.
"If you're reading this, you should probably read its article on its original source (your link). This entry is scrapped from site (your link)."
> The narrative action struck her as intolerably slow.

> She had, she concluded, “changed in ways I would never have predicted. I now read on the surface and very quickly; in fact, I read too fast to comprehend deeper levels

Here she lays the blame solely on her, but I would think that it's also a writer's skill to hook the reader.

It takes two to tango, and if she felt the narrative was so slow she started to skim the sentences and ended up missing the deeper parts, perhaps the book could have used some trimming, better pacing, or a different approach to present the subject.

I feel that while we tend to read faster in general, we also read a lot more volume than the previous generations and I genuinely think we are pretty optimised to understand a lot very fast.

There is a ton of last century news articles or magazines that are unbearably slow and very diluted. Sometimes there will be deeper thoughts buried there, but 98% of the times it's not, which is depressing.

Even nowadays, there is a cute TLDR bot on reddit, and from times to times reading the original article really doesn't bring anything more than what the bot put in a more succinct way.
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Be careful -- If it turns out that those rejected end up with the $10k, YC might start making it a policy of rejecting companies and accepting them on their second application :P
Read the reply you commented on again.
They are very much in the cloud business. Oracle salesfolk are essentially not compensated for selling things other than cloud services.
What if I created my content by slightly altering other content? Like writing a news article from a Reuters press release, how much difference does there need to be?

Seems like a pretty hard line to draw.
I'm not being paid below market, actually, I'm above market for a software engineer, but I think I'm doing more than "just a software engineer"

If you are more than “just a software engineer” and still an individual contributor with no reports, maybe you should look at salaries of “software architects”, “team leads”, etc. and see if your salary is still in the range.

What data did you gather to come to the conclusion that you are making above market? I’m not implying it’s not true, just confirming the data sources.

Your employment at the company being just a business arrangement between you and your employer, means that when you try to negotiate for more money, you both have a BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiatied Agreement). Your BATNA is finding another job and thiers is to replace you for someone who is willing to work at a rate they are willing to pay and lose the institutional knowledge you possess.

Finally, when I’m looking for a job, I have three priorities - technology, environment, and money in that order. There is nothing wrong with focusing on technology and environment over more money. That is a personal choice.
If you buy from Amazon, some books fall under their "Matchbook" program, where if you buy the paper copy you receive the ebook version for free or small additional cost ($2-3).
Statistical Modeling examples [Python|Stan|Statsmodels]
choco install minikube

choco install kubernetes-cli

minikube start

(You'll need Hyper-V, however.)
I've built this web tool to make it easy to visualize how your net worth would change under different assumptions.

Users can input assumptions for two scenarios (starting age, starting net worth, savings per year, investment return %), visualize net worth growth over time in a chart & table, and can generate a shareable link for their custom scenario.

You can also click the “+ Advanced Options” button, where you’ll be able to model out your scenarios with a little more granularity.

This allow users to add a “second phase” to each scenario (e.g., saving $7k per year from age 25-34, and then $10k per year when you are 35+).

Also, users can input up to two lump sums into their forecast period (positive or negative). For example, you can make an extra savings contribution of $30k when you are 40, in addition to your regular savings amount.

A couple of illustrative examples below.

The Early Bird versus the Late Starter: https://themeasureofaplan.com/net-worth-scenario-tool/#ageSc...

* The Early Bird starts to save at age 22 as soon as they graduate from university, and saves $5k per year
* The Late Starter only gets started with saving at 35, but makes up for lost time by saving $12.5k per year
* Both would like to retire at age 60; by the time they get there, the Early Bird has contributed a total of $190k (38 years x $5k) to their savings, while the Late Starter has contributed $312.5k (25 years x $12.5k)
* Even though the Late Starter has made significantly higher contributions ($122.5k more), they end up with the same net worth as the Early Bird at retirement age (~$680k)

The Tortoise and The Hare: https://themeasureofaplan.com/net-worth-scenario-tool/#ageSc...

* The tortoise keeps it slow and steady; starting from age 25 they save $5k per year
* The hare sprints off at the beginning, saving $20k per year for 5 years; at age 30, the hare decides to coast along and doesn’t add / withdraw any money from their portfolio from that point on
* Both the tortoise and the hare earn a return of 5% per year on their money
* At the age of 65, the tortoise has contributed a total of $200k to their savings ($5k per year x 40 years), while the hare has contributed only $100k ($20k per year x the 5 years)
* Even though the tortoise has stashed away two times as much as the hare over this period, they end up with the same net worth at age 65 (~$600k)
* Since the hare socked away such a large amount in the early years, they were able to coast later in life, letting compound interest do the heavy lifting to meet their retirement goal
the difference is gigantic.

The usual kind of panic for me is "oh shit, I forgot to do this, if I cant fix it Im getting fired" kinda.

For me a panic attack is "oh shit, I forgot to do this, if I cant fix it Im getting fired. ooooooh no I cant fix it because im a idiot and <some stupid reason>. Im gonna get fired, not get another job ever again because I was only at this job for 6 months. Fuck, is this it? convenient life, gone, just like this? Why can I not just be neurotypical, with a working brain? What happened in the last few years, I used to be such an upbeat happy guy. my whole life will be like this. Full of bullshit, can't dos and more. How can my partner still be happy with me? All I do is be a cynical asshole"

Sorry, this turned out a bit longer than expected. It just leads down a rabbithole really quickly, and getting out of it is like climbing mount everest
Thank you. As someone who lived through the end of the cold war, I have no desire to go back to that (legitimately fearing for worldwide nuclear holocaust) and I don't understand why in 2018 some people are so enthusiastic about pitting Russia against the United States again.

We made major strides in our relationship with them and now it seems like those have been erased in the name of local politics. Doesn't seem like a wise decision.
Go through the review and let them recognize your achievements. See what their action is first, they may already have a title and pay bump planned for you. If they announce your raise and it’s under your desired amount you need to ask for exactly what you want.

“I really appreciate the gesture and we’ve had a great year but I’d like to be earning $X/yr and be recognized with a promotion to Senior, which is more in line with the market and my responsibilities. I’ve felt this way for a while considering my work on x, y, z, but I’ve waited to ask since I know the review is the most appropriate time to ask. Is that in line with the salary band for Senior Engineer?”

.. frame it this way and it will preempt the most common rebuttals. Try to think about your boss’ potential responses and have a plan for them. Account for the fact that your boss may need further approval from upper management but ask for a specific plan and nothing loose like “keep working hard and I’ll see what I can do.” You want to timebox it. Same day would be great. It’s review time, the company is ready, this isn’t a surprise ask.

Your manager very likely wants the same thing you do so be courteous, appreciative, but also confident and direct.
That's what I was missing. Cheers.
The comparison was of RealWorld apps - you should contribute a Mithril one so that comparison would be possible next time!

Here's the link:

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README....

Have fun!
“Readers” are so judgey. There is nothing wrong with reading the wikipedia summary of books instead of the whole thing. I read “Fellowship of the Ring” in middle school. Took forever! Put me off the whole enterprise.
I get that they install differently, but that's not the point. The point is that they do very different things, in different ways. Postgres is not a Jenkins replacement. Postgres is storage and querying. Its equivalent on Jenkins is XML files.
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The follow up commit, which removes that:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container/commit/e25bd665...
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