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Ask HN: Help Regarding Anxiery Attack
I am a 45-year old male. Around the time the Covid news broke, I woke up one night with a racing heart, and feeling a sense of doom and panic. My wife took me to the hospital and they quickly ruled me out as a Covid potential (no fever, no sore throat, no runny nose) and tested for heart-related issues. All came clean.

Next evening, dinner time, the same pattern repeated. Mouth went bitter and the panic was overwhelming. I went to the local family doctor and he thought it was a panic attack, and gave me Xanax (Alprazolam 0.25mg). I took one, and slept soundly. I am really worried about getting dependent on it and want to use it only as a last resort.

I am healthy, and I burn about 500 calories daily exercising (about 5Kms / 3mil run). I also tried meditating (Mindfulness) and it was useful one night, but on most nights over the past 2 weeks my heart has been pounding, and I sleep only 2-3 hours.

I feel a sense of relief when I am outdoors (no lock-down in the city I live and weather is hot and humid). The minute I enter the apartment, the heart starts pounding again.

My wife, fortunately works from home and this is has been very helpful (we do not have kids).

It will be very helpful to hear if anyone else has experienced this and to hear what helped you.

I am a regular contributor here, but using a throwaway handle.

Thanks.
Oh, a standards committee member! We have requests...

Now that C allows mixing variable declarations in with statements, it becomes annoying that variable declarations can not have labels. This hits particularly hard with the switch/case, but can also apply with ordinary named labels. The syntax to work around this defect is ugly.

The gcc extension for case ranges is really valuable.

Setting the sign bit via a cast should not cause undefined behavior. (for example, going from uint32_t to int32_t) It should just work in the obvious way. Avoiding the problem requires extremely strange code.

I'd like a way to prevent arrays from being replaced by pointers. Assignment could work. Sometimes I really want to pass an array to a function, and I don't mind if that means a megabyte is copied into the function args on the stack. Sometimes I really want to force the huge copy, and other times I'd rather have the compiler keep it in the caller's frame (but callee can mangle it unless it is const) and just pretend that the callee got more than a pointer. Array dimensions need to survive. The callee's prototype should be able to demand specific dimensions or receive them as variables, and the caller should be able to pass a portion of a larger array

The default function parameters of C++ would be useful. The UNIX API for open() would be best done this way, allowing a prototype without the need for stdarg. There doesn't seem to be any reason why default parameters would have to be at the end; a pair of adjacent commas in the middle is a fine way to indicate that the default is to be used for that missing parameter.

It's time to standardize bitfield layout so that bitfields can be used in portable code for purposes like assemblers and disassemblers. (in other words, not for purposes like access to MMIO registers) Microsoft and GNU compilers are already quite compatible on x86_64, so that would be the basis of standardization.

When a bitfield happens to have the size and alignment of a normal integer type, it should be possible to take the address. The resulting type would be a pointer to the integer type of lowest rank having the correct size.

Anonymous unions and structs would be valuable in all scopes, including at file level. This would allow careful data organization to save space, improve cache locality, prevent undesired cache line aliasing, or allow the intentional aliasing of types. Current technology typically involves abuse of the linker, which is well outside the C language.

Being able to do something like an #include, but with a blob of binary data, would be helpful for initializing big arrays. Current practice is to have build scripts convert binary files to C, to have the linker do it, and to rely on assemblers with the capability. None of that is nice to use.

So that we don't have to invoke m4 or do nasty things with recursive macros, the preprocessor could support loops.

There are a few gcc extensions that make macros far more reasonable, including statement expressions and typeof. Add those.
I wouldn't call K a "fun little micro-language." It's an industrial strength highly performant language used in a variety of applications (mostly financial though). Moreover, I don't think K is any less readable than other programming languages, in fact, it might be more readable.
Understandable - could I instead strategically rent time slots for when the satellite passes over a certain location? That's not 24/7, but once a day for basic data science is certainly enough.
This happens to us regularly without someone having to go play chaos monkey.
For one, if I were hypothetically responsible for addressing this crisis, I would be talking to the nurses and doctors to figure out what level of training is actually necessary to operate these ventilators. I'd also ask what else they actually need: if we get them ventilators but nothing else they're short on, we're still in trouble. In other words, I would recognize that I'm out of my league here and ask the actual professionals on the front lines of this crisis.

As I mentioned above, cross-training medical professionals in adjacent fields sounds more practical. Allowing nurses to do more of what the doctors typically do is another. Even just offloading some of the administrative paperwork for clinicians to admin staff might make a significant dent. Relaxing any bottle-neck non-essential bureaucratic requirements slowing down access to treatment or acquisition of new equipment and supplies.

Having said that, I also recognize that the ideas I just came up with in the last 30 seconds are just that: ideas off the top of my head, coming from someone with no actual experience in healthcare management.

Basically, my first priority would be to make an informed decision, and that starts with figuring out what I don't know, and filling in those gaps. Rather than uncritically insisting, quite emphatically, that medicine can be solved with a 30-day boot camp. Because, hey, if it worked for tech then it must work for medicine!
Well, the intelligence was there, but the President was not. I think the author's point is that the covid-19 outbreak is the worst presidential failure in U.S. History. But FP is probably not capable of publishing that headline.
Have other governments handled it any better though? Seems like most developed countries got screwed, despite having ample lead time from China..
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Thanks for the feedback! I've never edited a wiki as a member of a large organization.

Talkyard does the things you mentioned, although it's not so discoverable: Most people don't think about clicking their way to the Category | Security settings, and looking at the checkboxes, and thinking about how to combine them to create a Wiki.

Maybe Wiki features could be listed on the homepage, or at least in a feature matrix. And, when creating a new forum topics category, one could get a question about if it's going to be a Wiki topics category.

* * *

There's one Wiki feature that Talkyard lacks though: Easy linking between different pages. At Wikipedia, for example, one types: '[[Target page name#Target section|Link text]]' — there's nothing like that in Talkyard.

A wiki main page shortcut link somewhere would be nice too (e.g. in the left hand sidebar).

(I'm curious about if you use wikis where you are now, which Wiki software, and how do you like it?)
Same experience here, my company was unable to choose a collaborative software, but in just one day 250 people had to work remotly while none before.

Teams is somewhat good, good tools to create wikis and integrate third party solution like Jira and office integration. One selling point to me is that "it just works" even with non technical users.
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I work on Google Cloud and have an obvious bias here, but having thought about this for a couple year now, this does not seem like a good or cost-effective way to move that much data.

In particular if you have ~100PB of data to move and you are in a location that can be reached by a 45-foot long shipping container on a truck with access to the ~350KW of power it takes to run Snowmobile, you're clearly not somewhere _completely_ inaccessible. Given that 100PB of data will cost you $400k/mo in storage costs on AWS Glacier (before the discounts that you'll obviously negotiate for), even relatively remote locations become "accessible" for 100 Gbps+ fiber or microwave connectivity, and _very_ remote locations for tens of Gbps. The Snowmobile itself is only 1 Tb/s, so if you think you're going to save time this work, consider how long it takes to move it to you and then move it to an AWS facility versus the time it takes to fill it.

I don't get where this is the right call for _any_ customers, even as a one-off. I'd love it if someone from AWS could tell me where my math is off on this.
Wow. What a biased hit piece.

The idea that Trump would own any investment real estate outside of a legal entity such as a corporation (or LLC, etc) is absolutely naive. Yet this article tries to finger him in this vein.

I don’t give a damn if the author hates trump, but he did a disservice to his readers by letting his bias get in the way of something that might be important.
Those didn’t come back from deep space they simply made a U-turn in low orbit and returned to the surface.

In theory two gliders taking off at the same time at the right distance on a long enough axis could collide in deep space and create something new, which would then return to the planet surface like some kind of invasion, but I doubt it.
Thanks for adding your expertise to the discussion.

It's quite interesting to hear the opinion of someone who has both education and hands on experience directly in the field, and then compare that opinion to the opinions of those who have neither.
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Maybe we need a Doctor bootcamp?
Hey HN, author here. To help with this we've also created an Adblock/uBlock list that will block tracking pixels.

https://github.com/leavemealone-app/email-trackers
1% of the world's population is almost 800m people. That's >10x the death-toll of WW2 (which took 6 years to achieve).
Looks like you are repeating the same comment everywhere without linking at what kind of outages GCP had.

Disc: Googler
In my (limited) exposure of products failing in the field due to whiskers, the mitigations included coating the entire board in some kind of film, and changing layout to make the board less vulnerable in the first place. Probably designers just got good enough at that to the point where it doesn't matter
John Prine hospitalized with Covid19 symptoms
From design point of view this is cool. However it is just a lame PR story. First glass is one of the rare materials that is nearly 100% recyclable it would be a shame to sore it as construction material. Second beer vendors way prefer aluminum which is way toxic for the environment but also remarkably recyclable. The best materials are those not produced furthermore those not littered. Why Heineken just don't fund garbage collector in such areas ? Why not an incentive when people return used bottles or others wastes ?
The same kind of thinking sent the stock market shooting up when some 3 million people filed for unemployment claims last week.

"Phew! Now that its priced in, let us focus on putting our $2 trillion to work"
Samples getting 6 standard deviations away from the mean can happen 1/6² ≈ 2.7% of the time. You might be assuming properties of the distribution that aren't true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_inequality
Why would you choose to single out Protestant mega churches and not Catholic churches? This bias seems awfully self-serving.
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That's the most unfunny over-elaborate April fools idea I've heard. The fact that nobody thought it could backfire and the passive aggressive nature of the idea speaks loudly of how out of touch with reality Google engineers are.
That's funny. If someone has facts and uses them against false arguments, they have a garbage website? Interesting

Youre just mad because you can't prove him wrong
> Is there any automated explainer tools for the K language for beginners?

I think q is a better starting out point than k. Most functions in q have readable names (each in q vs ' in k, for example). Also it comes with a richer library of functions.
Or in Webex’s perspective this is probably a huge boom compared to normal.

Zoom is the cool new kid on the block - and actually managed to jettison itself above Google Hangouts. Like how Slack disrupted Hipchat and Linq.

I think where Webex lost its edge is that it became too enterprise-y and reluctant to innovate the product and user experience in favor of maintaining predictability for IT admins and being grandfathered through SaaS initiatives at big companies that would rather pay up for what has worked than change everything for something better.
Imagine thinking that claim was actually contained within that comment.
People always talk about the flaws in her philosophy but no one has ever actually pointed them out to me. I'm a young adult now so maybe I don't have the perspective to see these flaws, but please do enlighten me.
Panic attacks are terrible.

Different people respond to different things. Consider

* cognitive-behavioral therapy (one of the most clinically proven therapies for anxiety but can be formulaic and impersonal) -- sometimes available by an app

* talk therapy (available online)

* meditation (people say it takes time to develop skill at it, so you might see better results if you can make it a regular practice)

* a psychiatrist can also prescribe an antidepressant such as an SSRI (for some people this can greatly reduce panic symptoms, and it doesn't have the same addiction/dependency possibilities of benzodiazepines like Xanax; note that it can take two weeks to feel the effects and can also require several weeks to stop without withdrawal symptoms, plus you might have to experiment for a few weeks to figure out which SSRIs you do or don't respond well to)

* reading online materials by psychologists and philosophers about coping methods (including grief and acceptance https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-gri...)

* some people benefit from increased social contact (and touch!) so consider video calls with friends and family (you don't necessarily have to talk about the panic with them) or more time cuddling with your wife

* some people benefit from keeping a journal (with various strategies about what kinds of things to record in it)

* some people benefit from pursuing a hobby that gives a sense of control or mastery, or of flow/immersion

* being helpful to others can sometimes help too (volunteer work, group therapy, checking in or just chatting with elderly or isolated people)

* some people may like some kind of gentle movement practice (yoga, tai chi, dance), which you can do during a panic attack to try to occupy yourself with something other than the panic or to try to remind yourself of feelings of comfort and familiarity

* you can consider buying a book about dealing with anxiety disorders; there are many "workbooks" for sale online which will give you exercises to work through (usually CBT but also other approaches), and also some overviews that describe different kinds of therapies and coping strategies for you to consider

I hope one or more of these things will help you somehow.

I would also add that you don't need to feel guilty for having panic attacks. Our capacity for anxiety evolved to protect us. While it can be a source of incredible distress, it's a part of our psychology that's there to help us -- and huge numbers of people are struggling to figure out how to deal with uncertainty and problems that are unprecedented in our lives. Anxiety disorders are probably on the rise all over the world; your reaction is not unusual and is something that millions of others have dealt with or are dealing with too.
I'm surprised that this book, which is as about as heavy handed and nuanced as Atlas Shrugged, seems to have such positive consensus. Reading it at a similarly impressionable age I found it to be a typical luddite philosophy presented by a condescending pseudo-intellectual gorilla. It presented some obvious truths about human culture and its effects on the environment, but insidiously twisted everything to support his notion that we have destroyed some grand 'natural' order and need to stop being a culture of 'takers'. Did I mention that to Quinn all cultures are either 'givers' or 'takers'? You can probably guess which one he spent the majority of the book demonizing.
Thanks for adding context, that wasn't clear at all to me, it seemed like the classical "Reads headline and then some comments, and post 'smart' stuff which the original article read anyway" response to me.

Sorry for the "accusation" then.
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My unrealistically optimistic hope for the post-COVID19 world is that we realize how terrible aging is both from a humanitarian and economic perspective. If everyone had the risk profiles of 30 year olds, this pandemic would be orders of magnitude less harmful.
(1) That is not the definition of "opportunity cost" that economists commonly use.

(2) As I often see when people make the case you're making, you are making unwarranted assumptions about the rationality of buyers. If people are fleeing a hurricane and the gas station raises the price sharply because of the demand, what can happen (and we've seen it happen, in fact) is that it encourages hoarding: it is now a precious commodity and those who can afford to buy it do so, denying it to others.

(3) As I also often see when people make the case you're making, you're also inserting a Big Bad Government Guy into the scenario, your "rationing authority," which people making my case aren't necessarily suggesting at all: we're suggesting that it is rational for suppliers to choose to ration goods in order to be able to meet the demand of a greater number of customers, rather than to meet only the demand of shoppers who can buy as much of [thing in short supply] as possible. Again this is what we actually see in practice, at this very moment: stores in my local area limiting the number of certain items you're able to buy at one time are not doing so because they have been ordered by the California Politburo to do so, they are doing so because on balance they can serve a greater number of customers, rather than turning away literally thousands of desperate people who couldn't "allocate their resources" as well as the guy with five Ultra Transparent Titanium Master Cards.
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I can't help but laugh everytime I see Tim Apple
I'm no expert in this, but my understanding is that futures are a mutual obligation and options are a one-sided obligation. So in case of a put option, it's optional for the other side - in case of a call it's optional for me.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume there is a good reason why banks require additional paperwork from people who want to trade options/futures that must be renewed on a regular base.
I am interested in the story of how is personal name or brand is same as MacKenzie-Childs, a home decor brand popular in my hometown Upstate NY. Their items often have a white-black checkers : https://www.mackenzie-childs.com/
to my knowledge, amazon had done a lot of satellite image processing for certain three letter agencies. this is probably related to that more than anything.
A scarily high percentage of comments in this thread are people making presumptions, and asserting them as if they are fact. Some of those comments were written by you.
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This reporting misrepresents what Fauci said. He did not use anecdotal to imply one way or the other that the treatment works.

He specifically called out the tension between treating empirically in times of need versus the slower process of establishing scientific evidence.

His words on this topic seemed reasonable, practical, and comprehensive. It is damaging to our collective discussion for them to get distorted in this way.
Agreed, I recently spend more time working with css and html for a side project. This doesn't seem anything essential or novel.
For casual hobbyists I don’t agree it’s safe (I used to think so though)

A professional is usually working in a dedicated workspace completely separate of a working area, and that distinction alone is important.

Everyone is aware they should wash their hands after working with lead solder, but if you’re working where you live, it’s all too easy to contaminate areas that you often come in contact with.

I remember trying to clean out my solder sucker one day and realizing the sucker was literally atomizing solder. Just cleaning that thing probably contaminated a good radius around my desk.

And I mean you can say “just wipe down the desk”, but that’s where the hobbyist aspect comes in, a lot of people will do this on a desk with a keyboard and a mouse, maybe a carpet, a ton of places for little bits of solder to hide.

They’re doing things that a professional probably wouldn’t do too, accidentally getting solder balls all over the place and stuff.

I’ve decided it’s not worth the risk. 99% of my soldering is through hole components you could solder with your eyes closed.

Most hobbyists are not doing the volume of soldering that any extra work with non leaded solder is going to be terrible anyways. And they’re also often not going to take precautions like wearing gloves and buying a fume extractor for the same reason
Same account posted a similar video for rule 110 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2uhhAXd7PI

Pretty interesting !
This guy hams! With your solder knowledge and call sign, I'm surprised you're just a tech!
I was responding specifically to a comment about mass murder.

That said, gun deaths is a murky statistic due to the inclusion of suicides. Whether that is 'fair' or not is a matter of perspective. I don't believe it is, personally. Primarily because other countries without firearms have higher rates of suicide.

The issue is further convoluted by the fact that [1]many of the most armed regions of the US are the safest, in terms of violent crime. My conclusion is that there's other factors at play that have to be addressed before firearms can be isolated as a variable.

[1]https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-cities-in-america/41926/
You're dealing in absolutes without realizing that each state, county, et al, are operated differently. In addition, and as noted and another comment, I am talking about a localized experience 10+ years in the past.
It sounds like the bottles were serving as insulation, nothing structural.

Was there anything used as mortar between the bottles?
Nobody here is saying the teachers were bad.
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