skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just across the river from my hometown; the entire Metro St. Louis area had a few tornado sirens last night, as a wall of warnings swept across our region.

It seems like the worst tornado was this one that ripped through the warehouse (other pictures show some trees that had foliage stripped); you don't mess around with a tornado warning. It can drop pretty much anywhere along a storm front, or even sometimes in the middle or tail end of a front, especially when all the atmospheric conditions aligned like they did yesterday.

There was a much larger storm that seemed to have a 200 mi or so path through Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and I think Ohio(?) last night. Some of these storms are still getting severe warnings this morning!
I'm not missing the point, I'm just saying that in general, outside of specifically having the goal of not using any third party libraries, SDL is a good idea for a project like this.
> We introduced a zero- tolerance harassment policy and waived required arbitration of sexual harassment and discrimination claims. We have made significant commitments to increase gender diversity and are dedicating $250 million to accelerate opportunities for diverse talent across the industry.

“We made it easier to destroy someone’s career with false sexual harassment charges, and also we discriminate against the main gamedev demographic”.
An extension can steal personal data and manipulate pages with Manifest V3 APIs just like before, it does not become any harder for extensions to compromise browsers. There may be an argument that it becomes a bit less performant to execute the JS required to thoroughly compromise a browser, but I don't think such malware cares about microsecond performance losses.
Don't know who Sabine VanderLinden is, but Paul Graham is the cofounder of ycombinator and his tweets/blogposts are frequently posted here and discussed as a result. I'm not sure why this is interesting other than how it reflects misinformation can grow on social media?
Sure. While the US has a higher murder rate than most (say) European countries, its overall rate of violent crime is lower than many European countries. For example it has fewer police-recorded assaults than Britain, Israel, Germany, Finland, Chile, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Iceland, Australia, Portugal and France.

So, the explanation for the US' high murder rate is perhaps less likely to be "they encourage bloodlust" and more likely to be "they make it very easy to own guns".

https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/crime_stats_oecdjan...
While this is definitely a bunch a hot air, unfortunately they could frivolous sue you to simply win on financial grounds alone (in particular they could sue you in a location where the cost of travel would be expensive and if you ignored it they get a default judgement, or sue you in both state & federal courts for slightly different things and drown you in legal costs).

I'd evaluate what your endgame is. If your endgame is to keep the domain then I'd get a lawyer in order to make it clear that you will respond to legal challenges (and, yes, the bill is going to run up). If you were willing to sell, for a price, then you should try to figure out how much a legal challenge would cost them and set a price a bit higher than that.

Is it fair? Absolutely not, but the US legal system is set up so that those with the deepest pockets often win. It isn't a fair fight for normal citizens, and even having the law on your side is often not enough because it is a financial battle more than a legal one.

Either way may be wise to lawyer up today, either for a better selling price, cause them to back off entirely, or move it into the "bury you with costs" phase of bullying.
Paul Graham created Hacker News.
"In the United States, it is not registration, but actual use of a designation as a mark that creates rights and priority over others. Thus, the rule is that ownership of a mark goes to the first-to-use, not the first-to-file."

https://www.legalteamusa.net/trademark-law-first-to-use-v-fi...
There's a name for this phenomena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential
I want to and put my email address on the website twice since this was posted on HN a few weeks ago. I never received even a confirmation that I was added to the waitlist let alone the actual invite for beta. Also what’s with sending out invites every 3 weeks? Without knowing the point from which you count 3 weeks, it’s pretty much useless information.
As you said "solicitor" I'm guessing you're not in the USA.

If you are in the USA, the law is on your side: just because they registered the mark doesn't take away your rights.

In addition, if they are doing something different from you (or perhaps you're using the domain for non-business purposes) they have no claim. You can open McDonald's garden shop (even if your name isn't McDonald) and unless you made it look like a McDonald's restaurant (trying to cause confusion) it's none of the restaurant company's business.

Best, unfortunately, is to get a lawyer. If your country has a "small claims" court you could even sue them to get back your lawyer costs, but those are likely to be small in any case.

Good luck!
You should report it, even if it was mild.

Databases like VAERS and EudraVigilence do indeed suffer from both under-reporting (due to patient apathy, and other reasons) and over-reporting (by design, even events with unrelated caused are included). Therefore analysis of such data takes a lot of care, skill, knowledge and effort.

There are ways we could actually increase the trust of the public in such databases.

By allowing selfreporting but separating reports into validated by a physician and not validated, by default only displaying validated. And grouping reports based on patient so that a selfreported incident and a report made by a physician are not counted twice when referring to the same incident.

By allowing patients to verify that a report made on their behalf by an intermediary (physician, national agency for EU) was included into the publicly accessible anonymised dataset.

By improving the UI/UX of the publicly available dataset (for EU, the Oracle made interface, while serviceable, is suboptimal).

By improving granularity for the age variable. (when investigating the under/over 30 difference in heart issues risk for mRNA vaccines, I found the granularity of EudraVigilence unsatisfactory)

By tracking/allowing public access to extra variables. (I found no way to investigate the theory that heart issues caused mRNA were linked to improper administration. A way to filter/categorise based on facility, date and time of vaccine dose would have been helpful)

There are options we can pursue, but these being state institutions, improvements take a lot of time. We are not a pull request away from doing better.
Thanks for posting this. I want to remember there were people who tried to bring awareness to what we have become. 50 or 100 years from now, the next generation can look back on what happened and I hope they make different choices. IMHO this is a systemic problem with the evolution of our species.
You could look at mods - I'm sure there's trainers around that can disable NPCs aggroing on you.
Talk to a lawyer and be prepared to spend money if you want to keep it.

First use is a strong defense, but you will need to defend it. If you have similar products and can show first use, as you claim, perhaps negotiating a sale of your entire business including the domain would be something to offer them.

Usually this kind of tactic happens because they've looked at you and guessed you don't have financial capital to defend yourself. Unfortunately, because it's very difficult to prove they're acting in bad faith, there's likely no way to recover your costs of defense.
You don’t need to have registered. You get trademark ownership automatically without any registration if you are the first to use a distinctive mark in interstate commerce. Having registered can help assert your claim though. IANAL.
Re your last paragraph: Neal Stephenson explores this in his book 'Fall; or, Dodge in Hell'.
Is there anything that can be done about this?

I'm down to email someone, put up a banner on my website or call, I don't know.
- The author, that HN would definitely like is Jacek Dukaj

This. And my recommendation is "Black Oceans" - for years now I'm shocked why noone made movie from it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charne_oceany
Dont know what country you live in but check the categories the trademark was linked to. If they are in the same line of business as you and the TM has that category that covers the line of business you are in I would be questioning the trademarks office for awarding the TM to the other entity.

TM's are cheap so its an easy trick and a lawyers letter doesn't cost much either, but its a legal game you may well be forced to play, because they might go to the domain registrar and try it on with them to get your domain.

Unfortunately these are the additional cost we can be forced into playing if someone with more money wants something from you like in this case your .com name. You could also see if your domain registrar as some sort of arbitration which could keep costs down or lower than using a lawyer. I think divorce lawyers best typifies some of them thrive on disputes. Good luck!
Yup, pretty sure they self-insure. Some big car rental companies also self-insure, because they are at the scale where they already have their own repair shops, and the premiums would be more expensive than just paying out the damages themselves (edit: and then they can sell their own insurance to renters!)
This may be a “it’s different from what you’re used to” rather than a “real mess”. Personally I much prefer using different shortcuts to do different things, but that’s likely because I’m engrained in the Mac-style habits instead of the windows ones —- to me, just based on your description, it sounds much worse to have a big pile of unsorted windows to step through instead of being able to jump to the application I want and then step through a much smaller list of windows within it like I can on my Mac.
That's about $2500 per employee. Truly life-changing.
Ask HN: A cheap smartwatch with a supported SDK
Hi HN, I'd love to buy a smart watch for 50$ or less that'll allow me to develop my own apps.

Looks like Google is coming out with Wear OS 3 soon, so I don't want to invest any real money in a Watch until then
And the experience is absolutely awful.
History is not separated by containers.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
Facebook not liable for false fact checks used to censor, says protected opinion
It would be kinda hard for an individual web site to develop a meaningful profile of you. The major exception to this is Facebook where they profile you based on your personal posts and activity as well as all your friends.

Facebook and Google have a global reach. They have trackers and profilers on about 80% of the web sites.
Based from what I've seen form the rule of law system in El Salvador for the past months...

That the most possible answer is that...

Someone from the government tweeted or said that they had to do it on a tv interview, otherwise they would officially face fines or perhaps closures.
>Is this correct? Sounds ridiculous to me.

It is ridiculous, and the only reason for this is because they have no legal right to the domain name.
no angry react either -- in the Brave New World, negativity is outlawed
Spent five minutes googling (so now I'm an expert! /s). So much spam on this topic. The most reasonable answer I found so far kindof matches up with your answer:

https://www.quora.com/How-hard-would-it-be-to-build-tornado-...

So first off, to survive the wind speeds of an F-5 tornado wouldn’t be hard to build. This issue is more about price than difficulty. Add extra fasteners, sturdier materials, etc. Once you get the foundation properly anchored and the frame reinforced, the rest is very simple.

The real issue is with the debris. Imagine a tree being tossed into the house. Even IF you built the walls to withstand it, which would be insane in a residential structure, you still have doors, windows, etc. Unless you build underground, or spent 5x more for a tiny house, it would be near impossible.

Your best bet is to not build in the middle of a tornado-prone area.
Upload date: 28 March, which is suspiciously close to...

Really well-made though :D
If he's doing business under that domain name, he is using it as an unregistered trademark and still gets some protection from that. In some cases, including when someone new starts a similar business with the same name, it can have the same force as a registered trademark.
In the early years of my career I was the hot-shot developer that outproduced everyone. It was fun, but ultimately unrewarding. Some people don't mind but most people dislike others who are conspicuously better/faster than them. In a "team sport" like development, this was a bad strategy.

Now the analogy I like to use is a rising tide raises all ships. Instead of being the individual hot-shot I do everything I can to make everyone else a hot-shot. If they are talking in a meeting and I think a nudge needs to be made, I just 1:1 message them with a tip and then let them say it instead of speaking up. I do more training of juniors and even seniors, teaching devs how to think through complex problems. Now my teams are more productive, most of the people like me and want to be working with me, and my income has skyrocketed as a result. Of course, I did have to escape from traditional office hierarchies and go into consulting to really increase the $.
This also affects Minecraft servers afaik. There is probably a huge amount of internet exposed resources running vulnerable versions that are unlikely to be patched.
Vast satellite constellations are alarming astronomers
Agreed. While I love containers, they are not an equivalent because they do not separate out the bookmarks, history and sync profile. With Chrome I was able to have a Chrome Profile on my work laptop that syncs to one of the profiles on my desktop computer. The desktop computer had a separate profile for my personal browsing. It worked really well.

The firefox profiles work, but they're too bare bones to ACTUALLY be usable. A few major problems I've had are:

* No easy way to start firefox twice in two separate profiles, while having separate task bar icons (which can optionally be pinned) in Windows 10. I did eventually get it to work by mucking about with creating my own shortcuts, photoshopping the firefox icon, using separate themes on both, etc. On Chrome you can just click the profile manager icon and you're pretty much done.

* When firefox is running twice with separate profiles you can't easily change the default profile. So it's awkward to get links from other applications to open in the firefox instance you want.

* Speaking of, sometimes firefox would just give me the "Firefox is already running" dialog when clicking a link. Only fix I found was to terminate all firefox processes, start my two profiles again and then click the link again.

It would be lovely if firefox made the profiles easier to manage and switch between.
You can't afford not to. The only way we reduce our impact on the planet is by managing its resources effectively, and genuine incentives that drive that efficiency are the only way to achieve that. Poverty is what you get when you don't value what you have, and it's practically the definition of inefficient use of resources.

Making geothermal plants economical by leveraging demand from crypto mining that scales directly in real time to respond to real economic transactions is probably the most elegant and efficient economic system ever conceived of.

The challenge with energy is economic transmission and storage, but by tying currency to it, you don't store or transmit energy, you store and transmit demand for energy in the currency, and this facilitates efficient economic energy production on demand at the time of a transaction for any business conducted in it.

If the ideas in these comments are indeed new, someone should inform the Nobel committee. I don't think they are, but a geothermal energy currency solves a lot of problems.
>I'm very happy that they can make this choice.

...and pay the associated costs for it. Alternatively, I'm happy that people churning out enterprise CRUD apps are well rewarded for working in a boring field.
BlueSCSI, RaSCSI, SCSI2SD... there's plenty of these projects recently. All have pro's and con's so consider them thoroughly
Meta: This website has one of the worst and most ridiculous cookie opt-out mechanisms. You are expected to read through a wall of text and follow complex instructions to manually opt-out of each vendor.
In particular, the UDRP rules include the following:

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(ix) Describe, in accordance with the Policy, the grounds on which the complaint is made including, in particular,

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(3) why the domain name(s) should be considered as having been registered and being used in bad faith

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My car has a speed of 70mph on the SatNav when the speedo says 77.

That could be by design, or the factory fitted alloys having a different circumference to the factory steel wheels.

I peg my cruise control at 76.5 and overtake all day long because other road users are oblivious to their actual speed.
LOL its an incompetent manager detector, not an incompetent coworker filter.

First of all it shows your future boss doesn't spec and doesn't care. From memory there are two solutions one has essentially zero memory cost but has a speed of O(nLogn) and the other has brutal O(n) memory cost and is about O(n) speed. Is memory so cheap for your application that you can double it for a mere log N speed improvement? Is N big enough of a number to matter? Its absolutely savage that in 2021 there's still companies hiring that can't pass Spolsky's hiring list from decades ago. A place that doesn't spec is a place that doesn't use source control, doesn't test before deployment, doesn't rationally schedule, its just a gang cowboys crashing it with no survivors. They don't spec, Run Away.

Secondly it shows a dangerous level of NIH syndrome. Its almost but not quite as dumb as trying to roll your own crypto. If the job is writing a database or maybe a filesystem or a sorting standard library type code, it gets a free pass. Any other workplace, if you see an application for a database, use a database, or import a known good licensed library for DB or filesystem work. If you're interviewing for, maybe, a 3-d engine game dev position, its legit to talk about something like how the 80s were an era of rapid theoretical development in hidden line removal algorithms, because they were and its cool. But if the interviewer is like LOL no we're going to talk about how you'd write a tree balancer for a filesystem, that's so deep in the NIH I'd run away. That project is doomed.

Third reason is its not terribly difficult to blast thru that algo the simple way where you traverse nodes and insert into a self balancing tree, or the memory expensive solution where you store into a temporary sorted array and then read out in a tricky fashion into a new tree (which is faster than one at a time because mumble something honestly who cares for 99% of jobs). Its probably about two to six screen fulls of Python. The real problem is its a cultural indicator of here's some flaming hoops to jump thru. The stereotype is we're a kinder gentler more civilized culture because we no longer abuse dolphins into jumping thru flaming hoops for our amusement, now that we're better people look at our halos as we abuse our fellow humans into jumping thru flaming hoops for our amusement. Just a workplace culture I'd run away from if I saw it.

Forth reason is I've been around the block and when the interviewer knows what they're doing and what you'd be doing they tend to talk about that specifically. When they have no idea WTF either they or you would be doing, that's when they whip out "I'm bored lets fill time by having you implement Bresenham's line algo in STM32 assembly language for lulz". The problem isn't the algo, and the problem isn't learning the algo, its that the hiring process consists of people who have no idea what they're doing and no idea what you'd be doing, so working there would be hell on earth. You're interviewing them as much as they're interviewing you, and they just told you they have no idea whats going on. Good luck there...
Is the IR35 really having the intended effect? I've contracted in the UK pre-IR35, and I was essentially just an employee who paid much lower taxes (and was easier to fire, didn't have paid vacation etc.). I've met lots of people who contracted exactly the same way. Is it really different now?
The email with the download link says I can forward the invitation to anyone I think may be interested in Orion, so...

Download: https://browser.kagi.com/downloads/Orion.dmg

Report bugs: https://orionfeedback.org/

And I guess you can also give them your email if you want to feel better.
Every answer in this thread is wrong except for "hire an attorney and work with them to figure out what the best option for you is." Do not follow any "free legal advice" from HN -- and I'm speaking as an actual licensed attorney.
They really ought to look into Ada.
Check this out:

https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current#/current/TMEP-900d1...

Just like patents have a concept of "prior art," trademarks have a concept of "first use in commerce."

If you can demonstrate that you were the first to use the trademark, you have less to worry about (but nothing's guaranteed until litigated).

HOWEVER, if the party that registered the trademark can demonstrate that they used it prior to you, regardless of when they registered it, then they may have the upper hand.

This is probably not DIY territory; consult a lawyer knowledgable about trademark law to help you determine how to respond.

They may, in fact, recommend that you countersue for infringement. Might not be worth your time to pursue, but at least in theory you could claim that they're infringing on your trademark, because the U.S. follows a "first to use" rather than a "first to file" trademark system.
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I’d talk to a lawyer about drafting a counter letter saying you were unaware of them using your brand and that they need to do all those things back to you since you have been using the name longer. Also petition the trademark office to invalidate their claim due to your prior use.
Which country is this? Also your comment is a common/untrue talking point when it comes to anti-union rhetoric and union busting. The reality is people working union jobs in the US tend to have better benefits, get paid more, and have a lot more job security.
North American companies rush to add robots as demand surges
I think there're some good and positive reasons including:

1. If I'm going for a full stack interview soon, having a quick look/update would provide a good refresh before digging in deeper.

2. Someone wants to compare between different aspects/features of different languages, some quick learning would definitely provide a good sense of differences.

Most jobs forces people to do things as quickly as possible, and that results in trying to learn things quickly. I see nothing wrong as this is being part of adapting to the environment.
Building two sample apps using Hotwire and Flask
God I love krazam. I think what makes it better is the hint of amazon hell he adds into all his videos (I believe he works there).