skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came very close do doing this in the early 2000's. Though my degree was in Electrical Engineering, my professional career has been all software. (Full disclosure: I was actually a double major, but was a semester shy of finishing CS and finishing EE meant I had to graduate).

As others have noted, your degree will determine whether you can actually sit for the patent bar and be a registered patent agent. Certain degrees or showing equivalent level of training are required.

geofcline's comment covers the high level differences (+ extremely independent + lots of reading about different subjects + less time working on tooling or “chores” + admin to manage your calendar - much higher productivity expectations than tech - high intensity - varied knowledge of attorneys) so I'm going to talk about the part of the process I know about.

When I applied to college, I couldn't decide between Engineering and Law. I ended up going with Engineering, but 5 years into my career it was time to change jobs, so I figured I might as well try the law route. The path I chose was to become a Technology Specialist (or similarly worded role) at a big law firm.

A Technology Specialist was someone with an Engineering degrees who helped the actual patent attorneys evaluate and draft patents. The law firm would pay a salary (only about 5% than my Engineering salary at the time) and would both pay for law school and guarantee you a job after school. At the time, starting attorney salary was about 50% more than my current salary, so that was quite a deal.

I sent out 5 resumes, got 3 interviews, and one job offer. I joined a firm and was one of about 25 Technology Specialists. Here's where it got interesting. I was very unique in that I had a) actual experience b) a degree that wasn't biology or chemistry and c) the only one with _only_ a master's degree. Every other "tech spec" was a PhD that noped out of post-doc life of long hours and low pay for long hours and high pay. I later found out that CS/EE types were a harder sell because they typically had to take a pay cut to join.

While I saw some cool and innovative tech, and got to meet some names that anyone in tech at the time would know, I saw just as much bogus business process and software patent work. I had a beautiful office with city views and an amazing secretary (patent secretary itself is a skilled, well-paying role), and billed out at $250/hour. The job itself was fairly boring, though. I worked mostly by myself and was creating nothing. After a year I went back to tech and joined a startup.

FWIW, the life of an attorney doing patent prosecution seemed much more chill than those doing litigation. I think part of the reason is that there are only so many people with advanced engineering degrees required to be understand and write patents who also want to be lawyers. For myself, I showed up at 7am to take a couple hours to study for the LSAT, and I generally stayed until 5:30pm to take advantage of free dinner in the cafeteria. The office (and this was early 2000's, so not a ton of WFH tech) was generally empty before 9 and after 6.
Amazon's Predatory and Opaque Performance Evaluations Drove Me to Quit
If you don't have any cases you won't get any new variants, because variants arise when the virus mutates while reproducing in the human body. More cases = more opportunities for a mutation that produces a more dangerous variant.
> For ~100eur/month on hertzner you can get a 16core Zen3, 128GB RAM with 8TB of NVMe SSD.

What option is that? The closest I see is the CCX41, but that is 40% more expensive, 140 Eur/month, half the RAM (64 GB) and ~4% of the disk space (360 GB)

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
At what point do we blame our broken health care system that seemingly can’t handle something as mild as omicron? Now.
Pretty sweet idea! Thanks for sharing
It's multithreaded.

I run FRR Routing punching 400gbit+ @ 75% CPU load on FreeBSD 12.

On the same hardware, Debian fell over at 1.8gbit.
Somehow you managed to read 4 different Amendments to the Constitution, all of which use the wording "The right of (citizen clause X) to vote shall not (restriction clause y)", and somehow you come away with "there is no right to vote, it's never been in there and it's not now".
Bitcoin Price Has Lost Half Its Value–Again
The concept of web3 only exists to further the goals of cryptocurrency speculation, and the proposed technology is in no way distinguishable from cryptocurrency systems, so they really aren't unboxable.
DNT was supposed to be a solution. Companies who insist on nagging you until you "voluntarily consent" are to blame. I'm not sure what killed DNT but it seems like they're trying to revive it again in Europe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022523

No doubt companies who want to violate your privacy will lobby hard against this.
Because it's not an "easy W" and treating it like it is causes more deaths.

Have you even looked at the current situation we are in? Death's are continuing to climb and we're soon to be what is in the second most severe wave of the pandemic [0], and in a week we'll see if we start to compete for the worst wave.

I don't know how people can rationally talk about this being a "mild variant" and encouraging people to get on with their lives.

Since the beginning we've known that Omicron is both less deadly and more transmissible. I don't know how anyone with an engineering background can not see the problem here.

There is a balance where less deadly x more transmissible == more deadly x less transmissible, ie the total deaths during a wave are the same. We can't really control the death rate of omicron, but we can to an extent impact how transmissible it is. If we fight to reduce the transmission rate we have a much greater shot at lower overall deaths. But if we actively encourage people to ignore safe behavior and "live their life" we end up increasing the transmission rate therefore increasing the total number of deaths.

0. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths
Flakes are "experimental" in the sense that gmail was in "beta" for however many years. I feel like it's important to mention that you're attempting to rewrite nix[1] and explicitly ignoring flakes[2]. Many people using nix are coming to the conclusion that flakes make things much easier to use and understand, and they obviate the need for a lot of secondary tooling that has become standard. There's an easy way to gauge support for flakes: look at how many high-profile nix repos have an up-to-date flakes.nix file.

[1] https://tvl.fyi/blog/rewriting-nix

[2] https://lobste.rs/s/ypwgwp/tvix_we_are_rewriting_nix#c_zvtze...
> I just don't understand why people use cloud services.

To handle that day of getting 1 million customers, which you've been forever optimising for.

Any.. day.. now...
We can blame both. People talking about herd immunity and intentionally filling the hospitals are going to overwhelm any system, and european countries had problems like this too when COVID was at its worst there.
I am a parent of young children, and we probably have more reason to feel "over it" than other folks. I spent the first two weeks of this year balancing full-time work with a kid at home because he tested positive. I got a fever for about a day, but that was it. But the disruption to my work and his education was far worse than any alternative. The entire class ended up getting sick with COVID anyways.

We were triple-vaccinated. Our kid had his first shot in early December. We spent basically all of December in lockdown. All of the little one's playdates were cancelled because everyone was freaking out about Omicron. And we still got sick. What was the point?

I'm absolutely done with the lockdowns, the masks, the strict controls, etc. The older people in my life are sick of it as well; they don't know how many years they have to live, and they don't want to spend the rest of their lives holed up inside a building. We have lives to live.

Hopefully, we as a race start taking into account quality of life in addition to length of life. We have a looming mental health crisis on our hands and it's exactly because of the fear-mongering; who knows how many years we're going to have to spend cleaning up this mess (it will probably be decades).

If you haven't gotten sick from COVID yet, you probably will. At this point it really is just a virus. The time for pulling out all the stops to prevent ICU overflows is over. This might be a permanant fixture in our lives and I'm more sick of the constant fear-setting than I am from the virus itself.
People have no clue how productive the cloud is once you are proficient with it, and this is also likely just clickbait.
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and UNC
How does that work with EOL for a release? Does everything break and you have to re-install?

My disk encryption is a little complicated so I'm happy that my rolling release means I only have to re-install when I swap boxes. That was my biggest issue with Ubuntu -- your were SOL when EOL :P
The evidence to support the claim is pretty weak, basically there's some more anti-crypto blogposts and documentaries out. I could easily make an article with the reverse claim and point out the pro-crypto blogposts and documentaries.
In my experience they are just outright lying and believe that patients will pay anything they bill. When my first child was born I received a monumental bill from the anesthesiologist, with the slight problem that no anesthesia was used and the person in question was not in attendance. Later, after I'd filed the consumer protection complaint with the office of the state attorney general and a formal complaint to the medical board of California it came to light that this person was golfing at the time, in another country. So it was just fraud.

The problem with this system is they act like everything is fine after they drop their claim, but what needs to happen is people going to prison. This is large-scale white collar fraud and it should be getting much more media attention than some guys stealing shampoo at the Walgreens.
Which system are you referring to?
I fully expect Microsoft to eventually acquire Canonical, and if you pay attention to behind-the-scenes interactions between the two, it seems very likely.
The group of people playing a game, and group of people analyzing the same game for optimal solutions are both doing the it for fun. In what way does either group spoil the fun for the other?
On the other hand, when you do, you want it back up now.
Most of the discussion in the threads is around whether covid is over as a pandemic.

I think this post gets something else wrong.. The economic story. The claim in the post is "covid is over, so everything will reset to precovid levels." I think there's a much bigger correction happening potentially that will be worse than "we're right back where we started".
Even the simplest Minecraft server installation tracks the players.

And as for companies, for example in EU there is a law that says any online service must collect usage logs and store them at least few years, I guess it's the same in the US.

Any server you're connecting to and playing on will know when and for how long, and your individual actions will be logged at the very least at the network level.

If you don't like it, your only choice is to not play online.
Major milestone ready for testing: Godot 4.0 alpha 1 is out
Discord won't take the numbers, Venmo won't take the numbers.
Deaths per day is higher on the chart you linked than it was not too long ago.
Here we go again...

Look, this is the bottom line - it depends.

There is a thing called TCO - total cost of ownership. If you don't calculate all of the costs associated with cloud vs vps vs bare metal then you're doing the analysis WRONG.
That sounds great! Can you share anything about the materials and/or performance?

I am only an armchair inventor. I once got as far as registering a company, and filing a business plan, but I noped out of it.

I just like to follow the science and noodle with the equations, hoping for something interesting.

The main problem for this application, I think, is maintaining a temperature gradient. So you add a heat sink to the cold side, but that only gets you so far. And then you have the extra cost and CO2 burden of manufacturing a heat sink (and aluminium is particularly dirty).

My plan was to look for places with a sustained temperature gradient. So, I sandwiched a peltier between the hot and cold pipes in my old house, to power some LEDs. As long as the house was occupied, there was always cold running water on one side, and hot tap water on the other.

So, if I was building, say, a power station, where cold water is being pumped in. I would arange the cold pipes close to the hot in one spot, insulate the outer surfaces, and stick a peltier generator in between. You can also use heat pipes (like on CPU fans) with coolant, to wrap the source hot/cold pipes, without needing a flexible peltier.
Nothing the federal government does now is constitutional
If it were true that complex games were inherently, objectively better we would only see more and more complex games. We don't, and major hobby game producers are constantly putting out low complexity games because, spoilers, some people are playing games to goof around and have fun!

It's just like any other form of entertainment. Think about genre movies. What makes more money, the latest giant Marvel/Disney zip bang popcorn flick, or the deep and complex Oscar Favorite? Why is the Marvel movie making all the money but not winning Best Picture? Why don't complex, difficult stories consistently pull in Marvel level money?

Value is always in the eye of the end user/consumer.
What a weird nit to pick.
Same .. I don’t use the separate loop back. Just firewall what I need to firewall .
Very good. While the OP may disagree, I suspect, years from now, it will be certain experiences taking photos with the camera/drone that will still linger in their mind.

I know for myself that a couple decades ago I excitedly rode the digital camera revolution and photographed/video'd family vacations (yeah, not very original of me). The photos now recall to my mind the heat and wind of Death Valley, the girls jumping on the beds in the hotel ... not the particular gear I was using.
crev for Rust’s cargo package manager is a similar concept: https://web.crev.dev/rust-reviews/
Isn't the general thesis of Web3 partially based on the principles of decentralized blockchain technologies, a lot like crypto? If so they are certainly related to each other.
Charts that explain the American economy
Any sources you recommend for learning more about legal marketing?

I remember reading about Cellino and Barnes and their use of TV ads and found that fascinating so would be interesting to learn more about the current state of affairs.
It's fascinating to browse HN history and see what uBlock rules HN'ers have considered worth writing comments about. The unique syntax makes it very easy to find those:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%23%23%20ublock&type=comment&d...

("## ublock")
This was my understanding about surgical masks pre-covid, but I plan on wearing a better-sealing (KN95, KF94, N95) on public transportation, airplanes, and in busy places like supermarkets for the rest of my life. If I can avoid even 10% of the colds or other viruses over the course of my life it seems like a very worthwhile tradeoff.
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I think this is a really nice and important project, and at a cursory glance the design looks sane from a crypto perspective. But I question the basic UX design.

The attestation system seems like it's reproducing one of GPG's UX problems: you have these categories of attestation, and it's seemingly pretty sane as long as everyone uses the attestations right (and there are enough players in the ecosystem doing the work of attesting). GPG's trust levels have the same idea, but in reality people often just pull keys from some public keyserver and then assign them Full trust.

I also think the true meaning of attestations is a bit murky. The `spot-check` and `code-review` attestations are about source code, `reproduced` is about the build artifact, and `sec-audit` is somewhere in the middle (ideally both). But it seems like these attestations are always attached to artifacts, not source code? So spot-check and code-review are really only relevant if the build is reproducible (and has been attested as such), right? Since that's rarely-if-ever going to be the case in the real world, it seems like another reason the attestation system will likely be misused in practice.

Finally, although I in-theory admire the goal of allowing the user to define their own policy about trusting updates (defining how many attestations of which types are required/sufficient), my experience in software update systems tells me that real people absolutely won't do this. What will happen, if Gossamer sees good adoption, is that (1) there will be a standard trust config that gets distributed and reproduced, (2) everyone will use that config, and (3) it will be very permissive, because users don't want updates to be delayed/denied. The authors seem to envision a world where there is an ecosystem of independent security vendors out there doing reviews and publishing attestations, but don't really provide any compelling reason why that world will spring into existence.
What is the cost difference between the Hetzner dedicated machine and an equivalent EC2 instance?
What worries me more is the next time, when there's multiple different viruses and the death rate is much higher.

Given that there are two possible scenarios for the origin of COVID; natural transmission or lab origin, I find the former to be a far more terrifying prospect. If it were a lab outbreak, that's a protocol problem that can be addressed to prevent it in the future. If it was natural transmission, why hasn't this happened before? Why isn't it happening again right now? Why isn't there 10 different viruses at once, that are much more deadly? What happens when that occurs? If this happened naturally, it will happen again. And I just pray that we are prepared.
> A centralization is otherwise no really desirable for many users.

I’d argue the opposite-the benefits of decentralization are too abstract for most people to appreciate.
You can actually get some protection wearing and N95 mask. Though those aren’t popular in the west because they often have exhalation valves that make people paranoid (the CDC says they are ok since they allow for a better seal and are filtered).
If there are plenty of them, and they are ultra-rich, and they are buying, why can't it be the basis of any serious economy?
Since nothing we've done has prevented the evolution of variants, why do we think we have any control over whether there will be more?
I certainly echo that it's a bit of a curse because as soon as you go off the happy path you start needing to learn the internals & the language neither of which are particularly easy. That being said, the rollback capacity, the ability to include a deterministic set of software needed for any particular software project (the inclusion of shell.nix or build.nix in a repo) is one of the few new pieces of technology that I'm unambiguously excited about becoming wide spread. It doesn't feel like it carries a dual use problem like AI or cryptocurrencies.

This could mean the first time you want to use something that isn't inside nixpkgs, which to be fair has now overtaken AUR to be the biggest single repo of packages: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total
I dont understand why not all online metered providers are forced by law to do this.
I have now learned that YAML 1.2 removed the sexagesimal parsing. So scratch that one too.
I disagree with the article.

> [...] as crypto becomes more mainstream and people experience its downsides, critics' warnings are starting to be heard.

I'm not sure that public sentiment is actually being measured or is shown to be changing, or at least there's no evidence presented here.

The biggest thing happening right now is the selloff, and I think that's happening due to the economic headwinds that face all asset classes. Look at the stock market - it's not doing any better.

It looks like we're in for an extremely rough 2022, and people are selling off their crypto (and everything they can) to prepare for the storm. 7% inflation on cash is nothing compared to the loss in equity valuations. Now is the time to hold cash.

(I'm a crypto skeptic, so don't take this as a defense of crypto.)
Ceph is supported on FreeBSD

https://www.freshports.org/net/ceph14/
Would be great to add more substances, I couldn't find hopium!
Historic Emails from Google Re “Gsuite Legacy”
So have been going through my e-mail archive and there are a bunch of what I'd call "interesting" e-mails from google about changes in policy

on 28 Apr 2011 22:23:41 -0400 (no actual date header in email it seems, so going by received header, does have what appears to be a valid DKIM header)

Hello,

We recently announced upcoming changes to the maximum number of users for Google Apps. We want to let you know that, as a current customer, the changes will not affect you.

As of May 10, any organization that signs up for a new account will be required to use the paid Google Apps for Business product in order to create more than 10 users. We honor our commitment to all existing customers and will allow you to add more than 10 users to your account for [domain redacted] at no additional charge, based on the limit in place when you joined us.

Sincerely,

The Google Apps Team

on Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:18:41 +0000 they sent

Here's some important news about Google Apps--but don't worry, there's no
need for you to take any action. We just want you to know that we're making
a change to the packages we offer.

Starting today, we're no longer accepting new sign-ups for the free version
of Google Apps (the version you're currently using). Because you're already
a customer, this change has no impact on your service, and you can continue
to use Google Apps for free.

Should you ever want to upgrade to Google Apps for Business, you'll enjoy
benefits such as 24/7 customer support, a 25 GB inbox, business controls,
our 99.9% uptime guarantee, unlimited users and more for just $5 per user,
per month.

on Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:31:26 +0000

Today, we announced that we're changing our name from Google Apps for
Business to Google Apps for Work.

Over the years, the size of our team, the breadth of our offerings and our
commitment to business customers have all increased substantially.
Organizations of all shapes and sizes, from one-person start-ups to
corporations with over 200,000 people, are using Google for work. To
reflect this change, we've renamed our products.

To be clear, only our name is changing. The product experience remains the
same, as does our commitment to bringing you the best tools to run your
business.