skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their answer will probably be "Facebook knew they were infringing so they contacted us and attempted to purchase the mark."
Their twitter is nothing, their instagram is nothing, their website is nothing, nobody can find any examples of what this company does, and they aren't using this exposure to try and explain it.

I'm not sure I am following what facebook is stealing from them. Meta.company isn't even the domain name that facebook is trying to use as far as I've been able to tell.
Right, putting many small mirrors or small spacecraft at L1 seems entirely plausible to me. Especially if we're talking seriously about doing things like colonizing Mars, this is in fact much easier to do than colonizing another planet.

From the Wikipedia article: "Creating this sunshade in space was estimated to cost in excess of US$130 billion over 20 years" Honestly that's not very expensive at all when both compared with things like the current infrastructure bill that the US is trying to pass and also considering the impact something like that could have. Yes its expensive, but it seems to me that that this is something that the governments of the world could afford to do.

Engineering and launching a bunch of spacecraft seems considerably easier than changing the behavior of most people on the planet.
Wrong thread, best of luck though!
Nowhere in my job description was there a requirement that I hold a particular chair down whilst doing most my work. There was a mention of in person meetings and such but no percentage of my time was specifically outlined as requiring me being available within a particular room.
I view not having results on Election Day as being akin to lag in game controllers. It really undermines the feeling that the election result is causally related to the voting.

I was surprised to see how much it upset me to see the NYC mayoral primary drag on.
That is a different company: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/28/18642350/meta-view-metavi...
i second this book. it motivates step by step implementation of a+ds and ends each chapter with a practical (industry) example. personally i think that it is a (huge) plus its written in common lisp
When Apple was rumored to be working on a phone, after the debacle of the Motorola Rockr, the obvious guess was iPhone. But Cisco held the trademark on “iphone” for some crappy IP phone.

There were rumors that Apple was interested in the name but Cisco would not play ball. And of course Apple did announce their phone with that name anyway. This is one reason you heard gasps in the audience when the iPhone name slide came up. A lot of those folks knew about the Cisco thing.

Cisco sued and Apple settled. Does anyone remember that Cisco used to own that name? Probably not.

I doubt this little company can stop what Facebook has already announced. I hope they get paid, though—if just from a sense of rooting for an underdog.
I see where you are coming from. Preemptive multitasking definitely introduces room for errors which are not possible in pure cooperative multitasking - like Javascript. However with multi-threaded languages like C++, C#, Java, Rust, etc. you always have to care about all of that complexity. Including ones where you cooperative coroutine might be resumed on a different OS thread. So it keeps being harder.

Also after moving to Rust, traditional threading lost a lot of its scariness. The type system is just so good at preventing the multithreading errors.
I’m under the impression that we are starting with decentralized ledgers with traditional banking. The problem solved by blockchain is the synchronization/balance of payments between the ledgers by just making everyone track the same unified ledger.
Please at least read the first sentence before asserting your superior legal knowledge. They literally said that Facebook was trying to buy their trademark in the first sentence of the post, which means there is an established trademark that Facebook recognized as valid.
Wikipedia page on another Meta company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(company)

Facebook doesn't get to own the original Wikipedia page for Meta (company)! They have to use Meta Platforms.
Your comment could be read in favor of or against having a messaging app for kids.
Ah yes I did see the compgen bit, and promptly stole it for all my scripts
> Facebook is committing forceful cultural appropriation of a common english word

Seems alarmist. The word "apple" is still doing fine in the context of the firm treeborne fruit.
I think this meta.company was made specifically to profit off of this moment.

WHOIS meta.company shows changes last made 10/26

It also looks suspiciously like WHOIS metaverse.company (same uncommon domain registrar [donuts.domains] and same last changed at date 10/26

Also the company listed at the bottom Meta, LLC in Illinois shows it was filed 9/1 of this year: https://apps.ilsos.gov/corporatellc/CorporateLlcController
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no

but at least for Apple there is little change to for any confusion, at least as long as apple doesn't sell food.

Meta on the other hand is a widely used vague defined word used in many contexts especially tech/SiFi/AR as such there is a lot of potential confusion and potential "cultural appropriation" of existing language using that wording (e.g. in a SiFi novel).

I think both shouldn't be a thing, but the negative effect Facebooks brand can have is much much larger.
> Those are transitory

Exactly. So is the pandemic. And so is the resulting inflation. I think you agree with me.
>Here is their Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(company)

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074478

Seems like it may not be the same company.
In a half decently built apartment building you can't hear that, let alone in terraced housing. Are those houses made of paper? :-)
Then get a different name. Meta clearly had no mindshare, because nobody in this thread has ever heard of it.

(and frankly it's still a bad name because it's a super common word. it was doomed as a product name anyway.)
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I've also been putting more time into competition table tennis (coaching, etc)! Am no Fan Zhendong but the backhand is coming along nicely.
Real estate and oil are not money and therefore cannot be demonetized. One is a productive asset, the other a commodity. Words have meaning.
There's an entire Wikipedia article on just this.
Apple Music. Owned the IP to the Beatles music, IIRC.
This is really cool. Some wild ideas for new features you can consider:

AR for anything that we hang on our walls. TVs, ornaments, memorabilia, posters, or even multiple pictures
"We have proceeded to file the necessary legal actions". Where are these? They should be public if this company is not lying about this.

That said, there are SO MANY meta AR/VR type companies out there. This is a dictionary word - that's going to be pretty weak from a trademark case, especially if these guys are not doing anything..

I'm seeing 700+ meta marks alone registered. Plenty of metaverses.

Is this the one they claim:

"Consulting services in the field of design, selection, implementation and use of computer hardware and software systems for others; Development and implementation of software, hardware and technology solutions for the purpose of productization of electronic components and electronic systems"

There is also Meta LLC - you can read about them here:

https://www.facebook.com/metacoopllc/

So it's not really clear who "meta LLC" is?

The twitter account does not exist?

https://twitter.com/therealmetacompany
Too bad that nobody ever managed to find any of those tiny super spy chips, even three years later.

But hey: The poop was thrown, some of it stuck, and now you are repeating it as established fact, when even the sources named in the Bloomberg piece found it quite lacking after publication [0]

So the narrative successfully did it's FUD job, and here we are under a post about yet another Bloomberg headline that nobody even questions in the slightest.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/09/bloomberg/
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Yes (if I remember correctly), especially wrt. to the apple logo trademark.

But non are tech companies.
wasn't this a pilot?
If you want legal advice, you should seek out a trademark attorney. In general, though, you'd be infringing if the company has the name registered for use in your industry.
All I'm hearing is that Facebook is entitled to a name someone else was already using because they are a wealthy and successful company and I am not convinced.
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Right, but as we don't see anything from this company let the court decide if and how big the damage is.
That's patently a hilariously non-sequitur answer to the OP saying HE got rear ended by a Tesla. HE is the one with whiplash and a totaled car. Who CARES about how safe the stupid Tesla was that did it....
You're making a product. You should probably talk to someone who knows about trademark law.

Maybe a lawyer?
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I agree on this, although ampleforth is not specifically a stablecoin, but nonetheless it's one of the most interesting economic experiments I've witnessed since bitcoin, a true Hayek money had never been possible before in humanity, thanks to chainlink a currency that even Satoshi Nakamoto dreamed of is now possible
Kids like them too!
I completely agree with you. Such comments are still against the site's guidelines.
I had a similar feeling for a long time. Today I realized that the whole Web3 movement makes much more sense than I previously thought. All the NFT and cryptocurrency stuff is just the tip of an iceberg that might result in a truly decentralized web, following up the current cloud-based centralization. So I decided to start learning more about what has been going on the past few years in that space and to start getting new ideas.
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You don't just "get a different name". You may already have a logo you paid well for. You may have prepared advertising. You may have references to the name everywhere in your code. And so on. Also even if it was easy and costless to get a new name, it still isn't fair that the big guy can come and simply take it from you without consequence.
I started taking steroids two weeks ago. 500mg/week testosterone. They haven't even really kicked in yet (takes about 3 weeks to get really testosterone levels up) but I'm feeling real good and I'm really excited with all the weight gain I've had so far this year. I started at around 155 in June and today I'm up to 180. A lot of it is water weight I'm sure but I'm excited to hit over 200 in the next 5 months of my first testosterone cycle. A fair bit of that will be fat but I really want to over-eat than under-eat. I'm really happy with how I look already and I've added 2.5 inches to my biceps since June.

Testosterone supplementation is a lot safer than some people think it is. It's still not the best thing for your body and it does put stress on it, but honestly I'd put it at about the level of moderate to heavy alcohol use (depending on how you define "heavy"). Except instead of destroying your liver to get drunk you're getting muscular af and looking great.

I do also want to get hired but I posted in there on a different account :)
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That is true - unless their livelihood (they mentioned how low the offers were repeatedly) was just to squat the company name and extort FB or whoever else wanted it - especially if they got advanced knowledge of the renaming and registered it after they learned facebook would want it. It's like domain squatting all over again.
> Can Tether survive a net outflow? Probably not. They don't have the collateral.

Luckily for Paolo & friends, their terms of service clearly state that they do not ever have to offer redemptions of USDT for dollars. Or even whatever IOUs and bits of string they may or may not have in reserve.

Out of all the stable coins its the most likely to withstand a "run" because they do not have to pay you if you ask. In fact if you're a US person, you're not eligible at all. If you're not a US person, it's at their discretion to deem you a "customer." Even if they do that, they can delay your withdrawal arbitrarily. Even if they don't do that, they can pay you out with whatever is actually in their backing. [1]

What would get destroyed in a run is every other crypto, as folks desperately try and exchange their USDT for something they can sell at a fiat-backed exchange. The Crypto-USDT pairs will quickly go no-bid, and as people rush for the narrow exits at fiat exchanges, prices will plummet.

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That is not the same as Meta, LLC registered in Illinois (made with <3 in Chicago, IL is at the bottom of this page).

https://apps.ilsos.gov/corporatellc/CorporateLlcController

The manager name listed on the Corporate LLC search does not match the founders in the Wikipedia
Yea, that's the sense I intended it in
They are hoping to get a settlement even though no law was broken.

I would guess Zuck would do the exact same thing.
I wasted 2 years not understanding PMF
You should mention that this is only for Singapore. Nothing wrong with that, just that HN is predomonantly US and if someone goes to https://burplist.me/ searching US craft beers they are going to be a bit unhappy.
How much overlap is there between the accessibility needs of differently abled people (e.g. blind) and the needs of typically-abled people that want more modes of interaction with their devices?

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Any suggestions for tools that I can play with in this context?
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The topic in question, Teslas (and other autonomous vehicles) on the road, would seem to suggest the opposite, no? While errors do seem to be relatively low, they do exist, and there is a large portion of people still pushing for their immediate use and I am not aware of the (US) government stepping in and banning their usage.
In sweden/norway/some other countries it is often shortened to mongo and used a slur.
Nothing, the problem is that they also wanted to buy the trade mark, also didn't got it (both normal and fine) and then proceeded to act as if they own it anyway (allegedly, not ok at all).
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Since Meta.Company has no products, I don't think there's any chance for confusion in the marketplace.
> Do you believe the purpose of the article was to inform you of the nuances on both sides and let you make an informed judgement for yourself?

I hope not. We tried that with journalism and wound up with endless views from nowhere. It was barely better than when journalists parrot Gov/Biz/LEO press releases w/o vetting the content (which is done all the time).

edit: I'll append to note that NPR's 2008 election coverage set a gold standard for equanimity that I haven't seen repeated (inc by NPR). They gave conservatives a better shake than RW news orgs did.

Everyone is biased. The key to better journalism is competency.

The key to worse journalism is having an arms-race reaction to bias and building a news org on that reaction - which is to say building it out of bias.
We did, up until Microsoft inherited that role, and now share it with the rest of "FAAMG" (no 'N'). You're basically still correct, only ludicrously -- and I suspect intentionally -- outdated on the identity of the puppet-master.

I'll take your underhanded way of trying to ridicule the idea as a tacit admission that you actually agree it's true, but have some undisclosed motive to discredit it. (Own a lot of Facebook shares, or what?)
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This doesn't justify what facebook is doing at all. What if I steal 10$ from you? Would it change your life or deprive you of food? Probably not, but that doesn't make it legal to do.
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This is such a delightful read, especially the historical aspects of game development.

Has the author ever thought about reaching out to Stripe Press? This seems like something up their alley.
Out of curiosity, what sort of audience do you plan to market this project to? What end goal do you want/see for it?

Really neat project by the way. It looks great! c:
I saw your post and started registering for hackthebox (this was the first I'd heard of if) until it told me I had to disable ad blocking to proceed. No thanks.
If they've got a site with branding and all that jazz rearing and ready for launch then no - it's not their fault the giant stepped on them.

It would even appear (from the letter) that facebook was already aware of this name conflict and decided to go ahead with the rename anyways.

Also Meta is a terrible name - for both companies., but that's beside the point (but it's like really stupid).