skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big thing not mentioned yet in the comments is to figure out exactly what's burning you out.

Is it the work?

Is it the people?

Is it the office?

Is it the commute?

Is it the structure of the day?

Find out exactly what it is that's actually burning you out.

Some of these can be solved by becoming a remote worker (which comes with its own cast of problems). If you can snag a remote job you can do things like remote year (remoteyear.com (I think)), which sounds like something perfect for a 21 year old interested in experiencing new things (while making money instead of taking loans!).

On the other hand if it's the work in general then college may be a good step. That being said, I'm not as certain how to combat long term dissatisfaction with work. At the end of the day a lot of our job is doing the same sort of shit of over and over again. Wire this up here, move this button there, get this data heah, color this that there ova hea.

It's kind of a grind for a lot of us I think but it's still pretty interesting stuff to be doing with decent amounts of satisfaction to be found through out our projects.

Finally, if you're filled with emotions you'd like to get out, don't be afraid to go see a therapist. Having someone to talk to, who can get to know you, and work with you overtime isn't necessarily always just for the depressed.

Burnout sucks, it's real, there's no pill for it. Use all the tools available to you to combat it. Don't make rash decisions. Do write in a notebook and sit quietly for introspection. Do spend time figuring out the what, where, why, when, and how. Do consider all available options.
Adding to some great suggestions ... Sometimes there is no reason to waste time fighting or/and adjusting. Move on and find another team that would appreciate what you have to offer. If you have so much experience you may have a few people to reach out to for connections.

Slowdown and listen. Do you hear this loud sucking sound? It's the demand for software developers. There is a ton of examples in competitive athletics and other areas of human endeavors when someone was unappreciated in one situation and super successful in another.

Still, before you leave, learn as much as you can about the situation, so, if for no other reason, you could recognize it before joining.
The basic ontology of a c program
This is very interesting but does not appear to be helpful for the development of my TTA processor design. It appears that this project aims for more parallelism similar to VLIW than my simple MOVE architecture targets.

I would very much appreciate feedback and suggestions regarding my preliminary specifications which will be changing in the near future (before year's end) to include MUL, DIV, and floating point support. I really want to have a firm specification before proceeding with the VHDL implementation.

You can view what I have done at https://github.com/BillBohan/NISC .
Right, this is basically the "liberal arts college," which is a totally fine option. We could also see a shift towards more professional/vocational schools at the secondary level—for art and design, as well as business. Advanced trade skills don't need to be delivered in a liberal arts model, and are actually often worse for it. Not to say that professionals shouldn't get a broad education, but it could take many more forms.
ContentEditable was supposed to bring us a world where things like CKEditor no longer needed to exist.

What on Earth happened? HTML5 has pushed the web platform so far forward from where it was back then; how did this one little corner of it end up stagnating?
In biomedicine, at least, I'd really need some examples. Every break-through I can think of came from publicly funded research, which then gets turned into a product.
Why every small thing has to become a law?... Just say "no, thank you" to question about salary.
Humans would not be identically conscious on a different planet because our consciousness is dependent on the environment in which it exists.

Even a cursory definition of consciousness must include the sum total of all of our sensory perception, and without the biome to augment that perception, it is impossible that our consciousness would not shift to accommodate the inclusion and exclusion of whatever difference in our sensory input would give to our experience of being alive.

We would all _be_ conscious (presuming relative health), but if we were all on Pluto, for example, the lack of light would change our consciousness, and for each individual this change would happen at a rate determined by their experience.

Perhaps this change would happen gradually enough for some that it might be considered an artifact of evolving, but certainly the change would begin the instant we left Earth's influence, and what might be considered our 'normal' state.

I realize it's a little (though I detest this term) 'hand wavy' because it's a thought experiment based on zero examples, but we do know that our consciousness is dependent on what we perceive and don't perceive. Hence the question posed by Nagel [1] "what is it like to be a bat?", as bats are cognitively very close to humans (relative to the entire biome), but without eyesight, it is fairly clear that the consciousness of a bat would be different than that of a human.

I recognize that this point is not necessarily the one central to your comment, but I do think it's interesting to remember that if we were not here, we would not be as we are.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
Any discussion of VAT, or just raising sales taxes, is met with the argument that VAT or sales taxes are regressive.
Why Facebook is obsessed with hacking internal productivity tools
Calling this a gender issue is like saying "we're raising the minimum wage to help women".

The law benefits male employees just as much as it benefits women. Lawmakers and PR teams just like to spin everything as addressing the gender gap to appeal to society-wide damsel in distress syndrome.
We are not having this problem in Colorado, USA. We've got so many butterflies this year, they're showing up on weather radar.

http://www.businessinsider.com/butterflies-appear-on-weather...
A flame in an electric field, what will happen?
Lack of wage growth? Gender disparity?
The incentives are totally different. Industry will fund research if it may potentially provide an ROI. Google and SpaceX may be willing to take bigger and longer term risks, but ROI is unquestionably their goal.

Academics aren't incentivized by ROI. Instead, they want intellectual distinction and recognition, and pursue problems if they are perceived to be intellectually curious or may have a large impact on society.

Sometimes the actual work that is being done can overlap, but underneath the motivations are completely different, and each have their own pros and cons. We need both.
How does renewable energy prevent the mass extinction of insects?
"One of our guiding principles in developing Microsoft Edge is that end users should never have to worry about which sites work in which browsers. This philosophy—”the Web should just work for everyone“—led to our choice to target the “interoperable intersection” of web APIs in our browser engineering."

Many sites already don't work correctly in Edge, IE11 nor Firefox - it's too late, these are minor browsers, used by a smaller fraction of end users. End users on on smartphones use 95% a WebKit originated based browser aka Chrome/Safari. Chrome and Safari are bigger than the rest on desktop.

Sites in 2017 are tested against Chrome and Safari by web developers.

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/world...

http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldw...
Intermodal Transportation
> Fish farms are in a unique position because unlike farming animals on land, it can be done without radically changing the part of the ocean the fish are farmed in.

Fish farms are a little like farming rabbits in packed, huge fenced in areas.

You get a lot of disease, use a lot of medicine and antibiotics - and get a lot of feces. And escaped, diseased rabbits that breed in the wild.

Fish farms on land are likely better - but at any rate, fish farms are far from being without environmental impact.
Voice Bots: Most “Human” Computers We’ve Ever Had
The horizontal hockey stick makes sense to me in terms of learning. Each increased layer of of understanding a complex system could mean a potentially exponentially increasing difficulty.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15351006

Cornell professor Brian Wansink professor has been under fire the past year for publishing studies with egregious statistical errors. So far he and Cornell have weathered the storm by saying that the errors were a result of human error and differences of opinion in statistical judgment.

But the revelation here -- that Wansink knowingly promoted a study as involving elementary school children, when it involved preschoolers -- seems to indicate that Wansink and his colleagues conspired to publish an outright lie. Wansink isn't admitting to such malice, but he has agreed that the study should be retracted, not just updated with a "corrected" analysis.

The age group difference is enough to completely invalidate the study, which purports to show how grade school children would be more likely to chose healthy food if the healthy food "had a sticker of Elmo", a tactic that seems would have different effect on an 8-year-old versus a 3-year-old.

But there's an additional element of nefariousness in that this study became the evidence for a $22 million federal program about school evidence. It would not be federally-funded evidence if it had been known that the study did not involve K-6 schools.

Certainly, prestigious studies have been published with egregious accidental errors. And some studies have been published using fake/copied data, or dishonest analysis, with the blame being assigned to rogue researchers. But this kind of "mistake" would seemingly have to involve not just its TED-famous leader, but his students and his collaborators.
Contrarian advice:

- do not analyze why you burned out, as it is because you feel ontologically 'incomplete', or insecure. you can't make meaning of a lack of meaning from the same position of a lack of meaning. so, you will need to bounce this off of/through others acting as nonjudgmental conversationalists

- if you do feel incomplete in this way, seeking internal answers/finding your "real self"/learning who you "really are" will only become a Sisyphean task/disaster

- don't wait for your desire to come back, it's an unobtainable, by design - see Lacan, or if that's unreasonable, just listen to the rolling stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0

- don't care too much about others over yourself: this is what leads to burnout

- if you get rid of your phantasies, you won't get reality: you'll get something worse than reality. so retain your dreams, and keep looking for new ones, as dreams and fantasies are really the only way to get into reality..
I find it personally important how fast the device is and how easy it is to use, if I can quickly look up things in the document and find my way back. If chapter references are clickable and so on.
Programming skills is not the same as CS degree
Prior to AirBnB property owners left their homes unoccupied while they continued to pay property tax and upkeep on them during those times. Similarly, there are people with computers powered on all day that have disk space unused while they continue to pay for the electricity costs. If you assume these are the people who are going to make up the majority of the FileCoin network, this is effectively "found money" for those folks. (Albeit probably not much money.) This might not be the way it plays out, but if it does, your arguments about margins and electricity bills are moot: these costs are not increasing after the network is connected.

edit: Also even if FileCoin doesn't throw off a ton of ETH, presumably there will eventually be a wide array of services like the FileCoin network that you can transparently trade your liquid crypto assets into. For example, consider a person who happens to have 50TB of disk they don't need for the next month but would like to perform some low latency rendering jobs on the RenderCoin network during that time instead. They could easily just trade one for the other, increasing market efficiency for those resources. This example would be a small transaction in terms of ETH, but multiply that across the entire set of all computing resources, across all services, and it is a potentially tectonic shift in effective allocation of resources.
I'd bet that the vast majority of industry innovations can be linked to corresponding work in academia. That's not to say that industry doesn't innovate, but they clearly feed off each other in a mutually beneficial way.
Microsoft. :p

Before that: Xerox and AT&T. Google did too at first with their car are robotics venture s.

Admittedly sparse pickings...
Note that the Dual EC DRBG backdoor you point to was in fact a NOBUS backdoor.
I use i3, but i3 != vim. i3 can be configured to use vim bindings.
Do what you enjoy, and don't be afraid to venture outside of software development. At the end of the day, not everyone obtains fulfillment out of staring at a computer screen all day fixing bugs and developing incremental features onto a piece of software. That's ok - we're human, not robots.

You're still young, so you can try something else (eg. product development) and easily go back to software development if you end up missing it. Or maybe there's another are within tech that'll interest you (eg. blockchain, AI/ML, game dev).

I will say one thing though - software development is probably the best job for money, work life balance, and ease of finding employment
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"The vim-surround plugin is so useful that it should probably be built into Vim."

I couldn't agree with this more. Also undotree [1] should be built into Vim as well. Vim represents undo/redo under the hood as a tree, which is absolutely incredible once you have a plugin that unlocks it, but the built-in facilities for traversing that tree could be charitably described as "dismal".

Vim's undo tree makes a solved problem out of the old "undo undo undo undo undo... ok what did this file used to look like... redo redo y... oops did I just press 'y' by accident instead of redo and blow away a bunch of my later edits... next time I should remember to commit before I do that (even though I totally won't)" situation, but without the plugin, it's effectively inaccessible.

[1] https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
Nobody tell him about all those IP options.
My concern is that most of society seems to have accepted that popular "isms" are bad, but only the officially designated ones. Then they're free to be as offensive as they like to any other groups of people. You're able to publicly say the things you did without causing any outrage. Yet if you do the same about protected classes, it's socially unacceptable. This shows that followers of the culture don't actually have concern for people being insulted, they just pretend to be concerned when they know everyone will agree with them. That's virtue signalling which I see as hypocritical.

I understand that you help people when they have problems. I don't think that makes is OK to insult them though. It's easy to be frustrated when people repeatedly don't do what you tell them, and feel smugness when they suffer the consequences. To pull out another analogy, we don't mock victims of industrial accidents for failing to follow the safety rules 100% of the time, despite being told those rules. Instead, we look for ways to make it harder to suffer the accidents.

Don't forget that just about every problem that people suffer is somehow due to their own actions. Life's full of rules you're supposed to follow but nobody can reliable follow them all the time, and if you did, you'd surely not get far or have much fun. People everywhere still crash their cars, turn up to work late, get preventable diseases, etc. I think it's offensive to blame them for their suffering.
"force yourself to work on something that you don’t see the value in."

Not really, that sounds more like the definition of being an employee (without equity etc).
Although I guess many employees find reward in the job itself and in the "progression" up the career ladder that business owners put in place.

I don't think it's merely a case of work-life balance. It's possible to sustain a nominally very skewed work-life balance if you enjoy the work and the people you work with, and you have a real stake in it (either equity, really building your own skills, saving the world, whatever).

But if you lose joy in the day to day work itself, and especially start to see through the "career-ladder" or "office-perks" BS then you will feel burnt out, whether you've been putting in 12+ hour days or not.
I live in Seattle but the people hear are all in institutional tech, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Not too many truly innovate startups here either, mostly B2B. Was in The Bay recently and really liked it.
It can consume electricity that is lost (by transport through power lines, batteries full on off grid PV systems) or sold at a loss due to weak demand.
On the note of the internet as a whole displaying this, there was a study a while ago which found "searching the Internet for explanatory knowledge creates an illusion whereby people mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information."

http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/xge0000070

(I first heard about it through the You Are Not So Smart podcast:https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/11/25/yanss-063-how-search...)
Show HN: Air – A command line for live-reloading Go apps
Stop fighting bullshit wars halfway around the world and you’ll have plenty of capable volunteers. No one wants to get their extremities blown off just because some military industrial complex CEO needs another beach house.
This looks amazing. I've been considering something like this but wasn't sure where to start. Thanks!
> Google can't throw GPUs at the problem.

The field progresses swiftly. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00955
I am Vietnamese. There was a mythically rare oil called 'ca cuong' that not many have experienced in their life but was mentioned enough times in traditional folklore and old-timey food novels. The oil is from a little cockroach-like insect that has a liquid producing sac in their body. They live in rice fields that span across the north of Vietnam. It was believed you have to catch hundreds of them to harvest those little sacs just to have just a raw drop.

So ten years ago when I was 20, I had the chance to go with my rich old friend-boss to a relatively high-end restaurant. He called a noodle dish -- I have eaten the same dish -- that cold noodle with shrimp paste (which smells pungent but tastes good) -- for hundreds of times in my life and I didn't expect anything different. But before we started, the waitress brought up a bottle that has a small pipette and dropped a little drop to the paste. The aroma was warm and fuzzy like how you would think of the cinnamon apple juice for a cold day. When I tasted the same dish, it tasted so warm, so rich, and so aromatic. But that's about as good as words get because it was unlike anything I have had in my life. It transformed the dish and my experience to another level of existence. It was that little bug that made me appreciate the food, my life, and the little heritage in the little country, where, honestly, not a lot of things really made sense. But definitely, that little drop of oil does make a lot of sense.

Fast forward one year ago, life has been so much easier to me. Food is abundant, but I sometimes miss that little dish. I asked my parents if they could get some of the ca cuong oil to me, even if it's expensive (as it always has been believed). They tried then replied that they couldn't source the oil, no one sells it. Further researching revealed to me that the little insect has gone practically extinct and it is now illegal to catch them. I want to believe that it wasn't me that contributed to it, but maybe I did. It was more widely believed, however, that the widespread use of pesticide and insect-resistant rice has pushed the little insect to extinction in just a matter of 10-15 years.

The day I figured that out, I feel died a little bit inside. I feel something was lost when I, and many people around me, was busy pursuing. I am now doing work that has a lot to do with biology, and I go to talks of people having that little spiel with how our challenge for the 8-billion people world is food security. I heard PhD students and faculty talking about how great is insect-resistant plants. The scientists in large agree with the assertion that GMOs aren't harmful. My friends would go great lengths to defend GMOs on their blogs and facebook statuses. They are all hardcore, hardworking, real scientists with good intents. I tend to believe smart people meant goodwill.

Still, the world marches forward for whatever it marches forward for, little insects that eat human's food be damned.
Think twice about it. Moving from middle of nowhere or from place where there is no tech is no brainer, but Seattle is a different story. First, consider that there is California income tax (unlike Washington where there is no state income tax). Second, if you want to live in decent place it's way more expensive than you'd be led to believe (check out craigslist + apartments.com). Third, consider that even if you join company and love your co-workers, those co-workers are most likely to be gone within 1-2 years. Engineers constantly switch jobs in Silicon Valley and average tenure at a company is pretty low (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-tenure-of-a-softwa...).

Having said that, at a bigger company you can reasonably expect what you are looking for. But at a startup it might be a bit harder to negotiate to that level, also consider that if you don't perform within first couple of months then they'll most likely let you go.
Not sure about that. It helps anyone who has been systematically discriminated in hiring against over time.

When you start a new job, it's not uncommon for your new employer to offer you a salary that's X% higher than your old one, using that as a base. If your old salary was lower due to discrimination, you'd start with a lower base, and would get less in the new job than someone who was not previously discriminated against.
Sorry to sound negative, but welcome to the real world. The vast majority of people are doing jobs they really do not want to do. Imagine what it feels like to be work on a production line for a 12 hour shift in China. Or getting up everyday to pack the shelves at Walmart. At some point in the next 40 years of your working life you will have times when your are doing something you don't enjoy, or that causes you stress or where you suffer from burn out. Don't panic, as this is normal. Typically you solve this by doing one of the following...

1 - Just work your way through it, it will pass.

2 - Switch to another project in the company.

3 - Switch to another company.

4 - Take time off.
"Hope for a miracle to occur" isn't much of a system when you get right down to it.
Shameless plug for something I wrote today, in case you’re wondering what companies use it for and what you can do about that

“Developer employee cheatsheet: WTF is Salary Benchmarking?“

https://codeformore.com/developer-employee-cheatsheet-wtf-sa...
I don't have time right now but I've been thinking about writing it all down once I've had a chance to reset. I'll post it in here if you're interested.
Peter Thiel marries partner Matt Danzeisen in Austria