skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an IP lawyer but not your lawyer, and I'm licensed only in Texas and California, so don't rely on this as legal advice. Back in the day I did a fair amount of trademark litigation but that was quite a few years ago; these days I do neither trademark work nor litigation.

1. A bit of Google-searching suggests that you're in Australia. I couldn't find any U.S. trademark registration for $NAME, where your .com domain is $NAME.com as listed on (what I surmise is) your Twitter header.

2. If the facts are only as you say — always a big "if" — the letter you describe would be ... let's just say, groundless, at least in the U.S.

3. If you own $NAME.com; AND: For seven-plus years you've actually been using $NAME as a trademark "in commerce" in the U.S. by shipping goods bearing the mark (or rendering services under the mark) in interstate- or foreign commerce; AND: You're being threatened with a U.S. trademark registration, AND: The registration hasn't been made "incontestable" by the passage of five unopposed years; THEN: In theory you could petition the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel the other company's registration, on grounds that you're the senior user. That would not be cheap, and I think this would require hiring a lawyer to represent you in the USPTO. https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/ttab/initiating-new-proceed...

4. You might find amusing the precedents at https://www.oncontracts.com/monster-cables-picked-the-wrong-... (response to a threatening letter from Monster Cable) and https://lettersofnote.com/2011/02/14/regarding-your-stupid-c... ("some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters"). In a similar vein, one of my late former law partners reputedly had a big BULLSHIT rubber stamp that he would supposedly apply to such letters and return them to the sender. (I don't remember ever seeing the stamp so it might have been a story that "evolved" over time.)

5. The title/headings that you list are mostly gorilla dust that unsophisticated lawyers throw up to try to get opposing parties to agree. There's no way you'd want to agree to all, or even most, of that without a BIG, buyout-type payday in return.

Again, don't rely on the above as legal advice; when in doubt, consult a lawyer who's licensed in the relevant jurisdiction.

EDIT: If you want, email me (see my HN profile); if this is a U.S. matter and it's not from one of my existing clients (extremely unlikely), maybe I can write and send an "appropriate" email response for a purely-nominal fee (but I wouldn't be able to take on anything more than that).
So do I. Unfortunately Gotham needs "ports".
Interesting stuff. I like how jsx is being used in brand new frameworks whereas previously it was React only
Scientists: Pluto lost planetary status due to influence of astrology in science
Is the control group composed of fully (2 dose) vaccinated individuals only? Or do they put non vaccinated people in there as well? I couldn't figure it out.
RIP jenkins installs everywhere :( : https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2021/12/10/log4j2-rce-CVE-2021-4...
I also didn't get the impression at all that they're kids; quite the opposite. They have golden handcuffs, just like a lot of people in tech. The difference seems to be (and this is what I felt the article conveyed, at least to me) the grueling effect of having your life and brain on display around the clock.
When it comes to extensions, they can _only_ be installed and updated through the "Chrome Web Store", so even if you were to stay on an old Chrome version that still supports V2, Google wouldn't let you download any extensions using it.

(There is a possibility to side load extensions for development purposes, but it's not a real option for end users. All other means of side loading has been killed by Google some years back.)
Given that boosters are an attempt to counteract waning vaccine vaccine effectiveness, there are two fundamental questions:

1. Do boosters work at all?

2. Do boosters wane over time, just like the original shots did?

They answer only 1. They didn't even attempt to shed light on 2, which is a serious letdown. Given known waning vaccine effectiveness, at a minimum claims on booster effectiveness should be bracketed by time since boosting event.
I thought this critical paper about the original paper (and maybe rather the news or marketing about the original paper) was fair and helps put things into perspective:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04324

So a relatively simple neural net finds statistical regularity. Personally I agree that it probably could have been done with ordinary statistics. I'm surprised at how viral this story has become.
I was hoping someone pointed this one out. Granted, they've blogged about spending tens of thousands of dollars on lawyer fees and the owner's last name is Nissan. But still, it's a good case study of the little guy winning.
Let me give an example. I teach public speaking and I often use online-stopwatch.com as a timer for quick practice speech stuff in class. I had not installed an adblock on the computer in the classroom because I was trying to be good and give that very useful site the ad views.

Then one day in the middle of class I start hearing sound coming out of the speakers which disrupted the class. The site had put an ad on it with an autoplay video. I put ublock origin on it right away.
> It seems reasonable to require a static list for privacy reasons.

It's rich to cite privacy reasons for not allowing the blocking of ad sites whose goal is to spy on you.
Author here. What you describe would be nice, but it's literally not what's happening here.

It turns out you can't just arbitrarily declare "we're setting up geothermal here", as Bukele did - it's complex and susceptible to dangerous screwups.

e.g. the LaGeo plant mentioned in the piece opened a new 95 megawatt well in June. That was the result of years of careful planning, and there's already concerns that it's screwing up the local groundwater - a serious concern, given a lot of the local villages around Berlin don't have running water and rely on the groundwater.
> even competitive programmers says that there's probably negative correlation between good engineer and competitive programmer

They don't. I've worked with some of the best competitive programmers in the world, they do think it is a positive and look for people with a strong competitive programming background.

However, if your interview process only selects for ability to solve algorithm problems, then people with a lot of practice solving algorithm problems will over perform relative their level of talent, so when you run a dumb regression analysis it might look like competitive programming experience is a negative signal. So if someone has competitive programming experience then you want to bring them in for an interview, but you should probably be harder on them in the interview than regular candidates to account for this effect.
> How the West invited China to eat its lunch

Their MBA programs focused on teaching new executives that the easiest way to increased shareholder value is to fire Western workers and outsource for pennies.
If it's so easy to just avoid this one awful API change, no need to ditch something like Brave or Vivaldi.
Although the 3 per 100,000 death rate after 2 vaccinations is already very low. It's great that an additional vaccination would reduce it further, but after 2 vaccinations does it make sense to mandate a booster with these risk profiles?

Especially given that there are rare heart inflammation issues caused by the vaccine, I can see people having a difference of opinion about whether the booster is worth it compared to the risk, until the error bars on the risk measurement are narrowed down a bit.
This looks closest to what I want, I signed up for their waiting list
Edit: it looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological and religious arguments. We ban accounts that do that (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

I don't particularly want to ban you, but you've been doing this so consistently that I don't think we have much choice, especially since this problem has been going on for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256558 (Aug 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21368015 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494736 (March 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349201 (Feb 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916584 (Jan 2016)

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. That's just what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Any of these with voice control? Preferably without internet connection.
My experience has been that you can tell them to pound sand. They are hoping the threat of legal action will cause you to panic out of fear. I suspect if you reply "no" you will never hear from them again.
Scam or not, their revenue is still based on ads. Some day there will be a day when user data is too tempting.
> You could instead not post.

As far as I can tell my question is in line with the guidelines of the site and the submission itself doesn't provide any clarity about what the discourse of this thread is supposed to be about. It is quite open-ended.

> Timing is everything. There is a time to discuss those sort of things; this is not it.

Since you seem to know what time that will be, when is it?
Correct, they live in Australia (it's in their comment history)
How would making decisions by committees lead to more scams or fraud then one man decisions?
> We obtained data for all members of Clalit Health Services who were 50 years of age or older at the start of the study and had received two doses of BNT162b2 at least 5 months earlier.
Tornado shelters are not exactly a novel idea.
I see. Then I suppose that was an unfortunately timed happenstance (and we should look into that more closely).
author here. This piece turns out to be doing the numbers big time as far as Foreign Policy articles go, so I'll accept my editors' judgement that I'm on the right track so far.
The team that I ran was composed of experienced C++ developers, working on image processing pipeline stuff (propellor-beanie territory). They also weren't being paid particularly well, compared to what they could have gotten at other places.

As a manager, it was my job to retain them; which I did -quite well. I did this via a combination of maintaining my own technical prowess (on my own time, as my company was no support at all on this), empowering my employees, staying out of their hair, learning the individual drivers of each of my team members, not nickle-and-dimeing them, supporting their training and personal/career development, and not playing political games. I never lied to them, and used carrots far more often than sticks. I also -very importantly- shielded them from a rather rapacious HR department, and terrible upper-level management.

I didn't give a damn about whether or not they wanted to replace me (I don't think it ever crossed their minds).

Basically, I became the manager that I always wished I had.
Is it too early to conclude whether booster effectiveness will also wane in 6 months?

I had some mild but persistent side effects from the second Pfizer dose (ear ringing and Eustachian tube dysfunction). It's gotten about 98% better - but not 100% - and I'm a bit nervous about the booster given that many people are reporting the side effects are somewhat more intense than the second shot.

If the booster is the final answer, maybe I'll take the risk. Not sure what I'll do though, if the new status quo is a booster required every 6 months, and you become a pariah in polite society if you're not "fully vaccinated"...
"Just how many satellites can we fill space with"

That's the (honest) question I have. Articles like this pop up from time to time on HN, but it's hard to tell how big a problem this is. What's the reasonable upper bounds for LEO satellites? How do we determine what is reasonable? Who gets to decide and enforce that?
What are the VPN available on OpenBSD
a list of VPN with encryption that can be used on OpenBSD.
You are assuming that one cannot access facts and the law without paying a lawyer.
My experience is if people are all driving at the same speed then they mentally switch off. When a hazard appears they aren't ready for it.
The end game on this is that there will be browsers that support ad blocking and browsers that don't. Content vendors will go all out on blocking users that don't use their preferred mandatory ads browsers, and the 'web' as we know it will suffer.
How did the Enigma Machine work?
Big picture being missed, there's a societal argument for decades over once you log something you're responsible for it and who owns the logs of what you do and the profit generated by Big Brother, etc.

So right to be forgotten, all kinds of tracking laws depending on a mix of who owns the device vs where its geographically located today, and now if you log stuff like user agent strings, someone can send you a very toxic string that causes enormous problems.

The very short term solution is to fix big brother so he can go back to safely watching our every move, the longer term question is how many security problems are you willing to have in order to extensively and permanently track and log people?

There is also an interesting "tree falls in the forest" effect where if you know there will be no professional sysadmin support to debug or fix or work on your minecraft server, why are you making logs, if logging can be exploited just like anything else can be exploited? I worked with a guy in the early internet days whom wanted an old fashioned page every time an exploit came in from China; I asked what is actionable about that, other than they can DDOS his pager and he can't call in an airstrike on them? He disabled his pager notifications, they were of negative net value. We are nearing that point for extensive logging.

Its very hard to use a log exploit on software that doesn't log. So why are so many things logged, that shouldn't be logged because its inconceivable that a pro would ever access the logs or its inherently bad to log that kind of PII for ethical reasons?

User data is historically seen as always the purest of gold nuggets to be hoarded and traded for valuables; reality is sometimes user data is plague blankets and you don't want them. May be nearing a point where "log everything" has a negative value.

Software only increases in complexity over time; complexity means more security problems; at some point "log everything" has too many downsides and not enough upsides. The world's only going to have more "little bobby tables", not fewer.

Certainly the long term solution to millions of minecraft servers logging dangerous packets is to not log at all. There's not a downside.
I think the "generous" perspective is that there was a JRE update once which disabled the remote code execution feature by default. Note, this was a JRE update, not a log4j update.
What does 'fby' mean?
Weird to see an off topic post being number one in the thread. Good for you and your layout but the on topic comment is as cookie cutter as can be. No shit that tech minded folk like to block ads! I view this post as an attempt to distract from the actual topic.
We go into security
Resources to Make a Business More Valuable
Poor Uzi Nissan. They should have just offered him $1 million and bought it from him. Years of stress, courts, and lawyers fees.

On the other hand, "MikeRoweSoft" clearly was playing on Microsoft and I can see why he lost that battle.
Also in the Midwest, had those winds last night. The wind knocked down two fence sections in between our backyard and the neighbor's backyard this morning. I didn't notice and let the dogs out and they got to explore the neighbors back yard for almost 15 minutes before I realized I hadn't seen them for a while.

Our section of the fence used to have issues also, but we spent an afternoon recently reinforcing the weak sections, and it held up just fine last night. If that had gone down though, they'd get to run directly into a prairie and anywhere in town, so I feel pretty lucky it was just part of the fence with my neighbor.

One of the two dogs did run away as a puppy (slipped out of a harness to escape going into the vet's office) and it took us four days to find and retrieve him, so I have firsthand experience and I definitely do not want to go through that process again, hopefully ever.
> I live in a country that ban guns, and I'm not aware of a reason why it would affect anyone's life negatively.

I notice you haven't answered that part :)
Hope to read a follow up post one day about how the end result of this letter is the company who sent the letter loses their trademark and domains.
The EFF has a cooperating attorneys list. They can refer you to someone who can help.
GUI toolkit and DB access library are two things I like to see.
Data is showing T cell response is great from 2 doses so you won’t be a burden on the hospital. Looking like cases will diverge from hospitalizations soon and vaccinations will move to flu-like in “strongly encouraged and taken up by the responsible”
I had to do this a couple of times for our 11/40 (also running RT11) - the was a printed cheat sheet of the OCD (octal codded decimal) you had to toggle in then hit the load to advance to the next location.
D is an interesting language, but I don't really know much about it. Seems like the first time I ever heard of D was in a BBS files listing back in the 90s. That must have been right around when it first came out. Since then I hear about it from time to time, but never checked it out, until yesterday, when I happen to have finally downloaded the compiler. I'm now looking for code samples, tutorials and such to get started. Would love to see how this trading platform is implemented, but I doubt source is available. I've seen Walter Bright posting on here from time to time, and get a good impression of him from his comments. Anyone else have experience with D they'd like to share?
Of course we all remember that discovering new theorems in mathematics and new _proofs_ of theorems in mathematics has been done to death since the beginnings of AI.

For example, see the wikipedia page on the Automated Mathematician (1977):

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

And follow the links from that article to (stub) articles on HR (2016):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_(software)

And Graffiti (1989):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(program)

And then jump over to the Automated Theorem Proving article:

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

And from there to the article on the Logic Theorist (1956):

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

Which, I quote from the wikipedia article:

Logic Theorist is a computer program written in 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon and Cliff Shaw.[1] It was the first program deliberately engineered to perform automated reasoning and is called "the first artificial intelligence program".[a] It would eventually prove 38 of the first 52 theorems in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica, and find new and more elegant proofs for some.[3]
Big assumptions that souls and reincarnation exist. Which have literally 0 known facts going for it.
In a first, researchers design robots that don’t need electricity
But the further detail on that is the reason for this is that Apple Records and Apple Computer had previously signed a settlement agreement where Apple Records promised not to get into the computer business and Apple Computer promised not to get into the music business.

Obviously, subsequent court cases and agreements allowed Apple Computer to get into music. Lots of details on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
author here. It got dropped for space reasons (it's overlength already), but Chivo didn't get US money transmitter licenses in order as yet, so sending remittances over Chivo is attracting conversion fees from people's banks, even as Chivo doesn't charge them.

I mostly think of Chivo as a real wasted opportunity as a payments system. A government-backed electronic dollar system that worked well, and which subsidised remittances from the US, could have been excellent for El Salvador. Instead they came up with semifunctional rubbish with a massive fraud scandal.

I believe the previous Chivo developers have been fired and a new team is being hired (based on LinkedIn job ads). Trying to find out more about this.
Great reply, I sit in meetings and see management who have no technical clue making pivotal decisions, resetting timelines without consulting their Architects, and will decimate them with no mercy. Yeah, I’m a paper pusher now but keep my skills up at night by doing consulting gigs on the DL and swore when I got into management I’d stop these ignorant schmucks from making decisions affecting project and product success all while rubbing their noses in their idiocy. Publicly. Those decisions get reversed and they learn to consult with technical staff before opening their uniformed pie holes.
For Second Life at least, it's hard to package stuff. World geometry, player models, lighting and props can all be edited in realtime. You can't use most of the tricks that video game devs are used to: no simple way to prebake lighting or reflections, no occlusion culling or binary space partition. The asset base is enormous: hundreds or thousands of terabytes. You can bet that every player character will have a completely unique set of textures and models, very little is shared between characters. This is why long time SL users tend to stick to one location, because actually exploring is painful-- move 100 meters, then stand still for a few minutes as your framerate plummets and everything slowly loads in. Many clubs or hangout spaces are on islands or boxes in the sky high enough that nothing else loads in. This reduces the problem just to rendering avatars, which is hard enough by itself.

It's also very hard to depreciate old systems. The game is 18 years old, but there were real money transactions from day one. If a user bought something ten years ago, they expect to still be able to use it!

You can imagine a clean-sheet design that does away with all this. Make the world static, player avatars pre-baked. Most SL competitors do this. (Facebook Spaces, Playstation Home etc) This gives you better FPS and a much more consistent aesthetic, since all the assets are made in-house. But now what? The classic Metaverse problem, there's just not that much to do. Cutting features from SL makes this worse, not better.
The block list rules can have regexes, yes:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla...

I don't personally believe that solves anything. Domain names are cheap. If I don't want my ad to be blocked, I can just rotate through lots of them.

Google has responded to some pressure by upping the max number of rules and allowing some amount of dynamically defined rules.