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Ask HN: Trademarked Usernames/Handles/Accounts
Dear HN,

I am the registered owner of a “famous trademark.” I mention “famous” because: 1) “famous trademarks” receive greater legal protection than normal trademarks where normal trademarks require “likelihood of confusion” for trademark infringement famous trademarks do not; and 2) more importantly platforms like X/Twitter, Meta (Instagram), TikTok, Twitch and YouTube all prevented the trademarked username/handle/account from being registered by users on their respective platforms to protect the trademark and brand.

I have spent the last two years working with the trademark/legal teams for these platforms to secure the trademarked usernames/handles accounts.

So far I have secured the usernames/handles/accounts from Meta (Instagram & Threads), TikTok and Twitch - plus some other less notably platforms.

However, working with X (pre-Elon & post Elon) and YouTube has been extremely frustrating. Essentially they both have automated and generic responses to my requests & legal demands. Moreover, they typically result in response like “we do not reserve usernames for trademark owners” or “the account in question is not infringing your trademark.” In short my requests are not being read and it’s been impossible to get in contact with real people at these companies. Again the accounts do not actually exist, they are just being protected from user registration, but these automated systems and responses are clearly trained of normal trademark infringement claims and not aware of these unusual edge cases where the companies themselves are preventing user registration to protect famous trademarks.

I have been working on securing the trademarked accounts across the internet to protect the trademark/brand for 2 years (3+ years including including obtaining the trademark itself). I have exhausted all available options to amicably resolve these matters and although I have strong claims for Federal Trademark Dilution and a federal lawsuit for the same would quickly get me in touch with counsel and I know they would resolve it in my favor they’d be incentivized to drag their feet for the billables commensurate with a federal trademark case. Therefore, I am requesting help of the HN community to get me in contact with flesh and blood decision makers and get me out of the process of these automated systems.

I know many employees of those companies are here on HN and I’ve seen the HN community rally to help people resolve issues with large tech companies often when they are stuck getting the runaround or automated processes. I’d greatly appreciate any help, as I’d prefer to focus on building rather than the distraction of federal litigation.

Thanks
>Coordinating global class names becomes a pain quickly.

However scoped css variables does add quite a lot. So I'm thinking that can't be the scoping you were thinking of?
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> If base classes were only allowed to be used in inheritance and couldn't be parameters, generics, etc then that would force users to create base classes and public interfaces in pairs and would decouple their names and by writing the public interface down as its own thing developers would be more likely to focus on that design.

I agree and like this principle, however, but what would be the difference between the base class and a mixin class then?
It's a question of what has the most bang for the buck. Using wind to generate electricity via big wind turbines has a vastly lower cost per ton of avoided carbon pumped into the atmosphere than using wind to move very small capacity sailboats across the ocean.
I’ll admit I didn't make it clear how my comment was on topic. It is indeed a reaction to TFA.

We need to protect this. This is beautiful in its own small way. And as it stands any number of the people who stepped up to help the son out were doing so outside of any legal protection or codified right to distribute and crack this old piece of software.
>In New York, for example, starting salaries for FBI agents hover around $73,000. But a nonprofit group in the city reported people need to earn at least $100,000 to afford food, housing and transportation there.

Does this hold truth? I know it's expensive city, but 73k is also median salary here, do they want to say that more than half people here cannot afford basic needs? That doesn't sound right
The problem is the FBI uses mostly the same GS pay scale as the rest of the federal government. So if the pay stinks for them, it also stinks for every other government agency.

And that’s a much bigger problem then Mulder and Scully not making rent.
I knew people making 100K in California spending up to 60% of their income on housing.

Housing prices are destroying everything.
Certainly, since Ballmer was about as far from a coder as possible and I always wondered why his name was chosen. This makes sense finally.
The FBI is too big... hopefully this will be a disincentive to not look for jobs there. Every state already has its own police force. There's no need for a massive federal agency to do the same type of stuff.
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> Just adding indexes seldom solved the problem

We write all our queries by hand. We've got decades of experience and I'd say we're pretty proficient.

For us adding an index is almost always the solution, assuming the statistics are fine.

Either we plain forgot, or a customer required new functionality we didn't predict so no index on the fields required.

Sure sometimes a poorly constructed query slips out or the optimizer needs some help by reorganizing the query, but it's rare.
What about the free enterprise????
That doesn't seem to be true now. Home prices have risen despite higher interest rates.
>"taking up a proportion of available space after other siblings have been sized"
and
>- It could be used for the width/height properties (and potentially other places such as margin/padding/inset)

this to me is essentially what clamp does, although it can't take up size after siblings have been sized.

If at some point clamp can start taking values like inherited then it would be pretty cool, but that would be pretty difficult unfortunately.
Supply management. It’s how you keep incomes artificially high.
While we're fixing this, I'd also like a "South-up" option. Maybe even "West-up" or "East-up" one.

I'm not joking. Beyond training one to think about their location in multiple orientations, it also opens your eyes to assumptions one makes about places based on their location. West Wing famously flipped the script (literally), but there's also the lateral bias to think about. Go into Google Maps and flip it 90 degrees; does your understanding of distance, shapes, and spatial relationships of "familiar" geography change?
73k is definitely the median, but the disconnect with 100k is due to the shortcuts people probably take vs what the nonprofit reports.

For example, people may be getting roommates, living with family, Getting packages dinners, etc to make ends meet.

Also NYCHA (public housing) has hundreds of thousands of residents who definitely mostly make below 70k. That’s probably bringing the median down.
Oh really?

So when some local newspaper reports about some random old person in an old-age home that's political?

Please, take this destructive attitude and reassess it.

Not all things are political and making them so actively makes the world worse.
What about crimes which transcend state jurisdiction (try getting 12 different state police forces to co-ordinate and run thousands of investigations together and see how well it goes)? Or issues like counter-intelligence? Or areas where local police forces are corrupt and won't investigate?
> There are no free search engines anymore

Search is now worse than it was in 1996, Trust me I was there kids :)
What you have now is a pale shadow of a real, functioning internet.

Perhaps the way forwards radically different.

If a consortium of independent crawlers could release a massively
compressed model periodically, say 12 times per year, then search
could move to the client side. Anyone got sensible estimates on what
the size of a model could be to give say about 80% of the capability
of Google/Bing?

I think it would weigh in smaller than 1TB, and with clever
differential code you'd only have to download the changes.

Isn't it time to move search of the web off the web?
That's what equality means and what they fought for.
I've been doing the same things for many years at this point

Most companies refuse to buy the right software for the job and, like you, I'm the most effective person in my team since I can do things quickly and effectively unlike anyone else
Why are conversations not like this? Because shady folks want to take advantage of people's enthusiasm about maybe striking it rich and do what they can to let the target's imagination do the work.
I think statements of the form "X is immoral" are just secular versions of "X is against God's will", in the sense that they (not necessarily intentionally) use linguistic trickery to present a personal preference as a universal rule.

If I am against something I can say "I am against X"; making statements about oneself is generally safe and not an overstep. There's no obvious path from "I am against X" to "I will stop you doing X".

If I say "X is wrong", that sounds like an absolute, and is more easily (ab)used as a justification for stopping others doing it.

The exact same linguistic distinction applies to offence. "I am offended by X" is accurate and works fine in a society. "X is offensive" is a precursor to censorship.
Anyone having issues getting verification codes from GitHub?
Some users reported experiencing a delay of ~6 hours before receiving verification codes from GitHub.

By the time they receive the code, it has already expired.
Wow. Wouldnt have expect it to be that strict.
What happened to people to make them take extraordinary claims by governments at face value? PR is an observable phenomenon.
Not sure how much you are actually in the business here, but almost everything you write is incorrect for literally every single doctor we know (cca 50, variously close, everything from GP to heart/neurosurgeons). You are clearly talking about German part, I talk about French, but still same general rules do apply.

Its trivial to sue a doctor, my wife, on her effin' first night shift in the country here got involved death of a patient and got into court case that took 6 months of court hearings to resolve. Not her fault, wasn't her patient even, but she still had to spent ridiculous amount of time for it outside work to get finally cleared.

Her colleague at this moment is getting sued, almost immediately after situation, for overlooking a cancer, when markers from test twice were non-conclusive (I don't/can't go into details, its a very complex case). Suing is very common here, its just that in case error can't be proved on their side, they have cca decent (and expensive) legal insurance. If they don't, license revocation, life-destroying fines, or even jail are on the table. Cases like this are common. This is very common for GPs with their own practice too, since they see more patients than some specialists.

Also not sure why you degrade other's people mental issues when under semi-constant decades of pressure from all sides. "Yeah people may cry" - this ain't how mental issues and burnout should be acknowledged. Please show some respect they properly deserve, you clearly are an outsider to profession and I sense some envy in between your lines. If its that bad with your life, go and start medicine studies, schools are open for anybody of any age and public schools here are free.

Last part - yes unemployment isn't generally high among doctors willing to work, but ie check canton Geneve now - no new GP licenses are granted (as = 0), and old folks are retiring fast. People are desperate to get a GP, I have colleagues begging me to find somebody via my wife for them, new doctors need to travel 2-3h every day to other cantons to find work, and some are properly desperate. As IT guy, I don't know a single capable colleague who has even similar employment issues, companies are always hiring good seniors, and there are tons of companies needing good IT folks left and right.
Housing isn't a free market; it's heavily regulated, subsidized, and politicized.
and as mentioned above, all import duties.
I know you are speaking the truth, at present, but that doesn't mean it is healthy, or that we must accept it as the inevitable future.
In NYC, you typically need to earn 40x the monthly rent in annual income to not need a guarantor. 73k / 40 = $1825/month in rent.

The median 1 bedroom apartment in NYC is $3,263 according to Zillow https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/new-york...
You need to be "grand fathered" into proper housing to afford it.

My theory is that the churn of workers in the metropoles due to housing costs is why there are vacant jobs which made the workers move there in the first place. A self enforcing loop.
Unfortunately your citizenship is irrelevant and all that counts is your country of birth. Because you were born in India you are chargeable to India despite your British nationality.

However if you are married to someone who was born in the UK (or another country) you are able to use their country of birth for your green card. This is called “cross chargability”.
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He is right, you don't confirm that an LLM works well by comparing it to the result of another LLM.
Yep and they did not have insulation obligations and what not. A house was much simpler back then too (i think). European here so i could be biased.
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A quick google gives me median rent of $3500. After tax, 73k comes to about 54,599. Divided by 12 is 4,546 per month. So you have about $1,000 a month for utilities, food, gas/train, etc. It seems difficult to live on.
There's something utterly amusing about posting Steve Jobs quotes under M$ critique and vice versa.
Exactly. Why are there so many people trying to talk themselves into a corner?
Yes the gs pay scale also means these agencies use more contract workers who end up costing way way more. It's a dual world that exists
He might not be a coder, but he was very good at math though.

EDIT: forgot the word 'math'.
> more so that they are irrelevant because they don't provide services to the vast majority of people.

The vast majority of people can do the same. What do you think public/cooperate ownership is, exactly? It isn't something that magically comes down from space by aliens or sent to us by god. They are by the people. All the people have to do is do it!

> Also a part from sogetel, those are either very small or regional.

So? They still exist in Quebec. The question was really trying to ask why you didn't mention them?

If you like their model, and want to see them grow, then you'd think you'd be preaching their existence to high heaven. The only way small businesses can grow to cover the nation is to have people talk about them. No business has ever swept the nation in secrecy. Yet here we are, even after we started talking about them, being told that they shouldn't be talked about because they are too "insignificant".

Why is it that the people who complain about the "Big 3" most are the ones who seem most happy to keep on using their service?
$73,000 starting salary is perfectly fine in the DC metro area. The problem is that the GS scale’s locality pay bumps haven’t kept pace with some truly insane areas.
I ran into this when applying for the US Digital Service. Their pay scales simply weren't competitive with the private sector (and I don't even live in SV).
A common concern about AI is that it takes jobs that humans currently do
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Here I thought your anecdote was going to end with your mother going to space.

As a counter anecdote, I have a good sense of balance and don't get motion sickness, but a good sense of direction. My wife gets motion sickness very easily (she has a hard time being a passenger in a car) but has a terrible sense of direction.

The person with the worst sense of direction I know just has ADD (like my wife) but no motion sickness.
I like the way Sutter's ends on a prepositional phrase. Almost like the infinite loopiness of Celtic art, in theory.
> The point is to get the advantage before China or Russia do.

Better industrialize then.

Modern warfare is industrialized warfare. Deindustrialized nations can't wage it or win it.
If you're offloading transcription to openai, why have a local gfx card?
Do you have any concrete plans about a potential network extension yet?
I am very much in the market for a Google Photos replacement. The ads (nudging?) in the Android app are too much and I find the sharing options inadequate.

Most of the apps I found didn't have an Android app, this one does though, neat! All I want to do is tag/organize the pictures my wife and I take on our phones, and sync some of those tags (/folders/albums) with each other.

The linked comparison table is also very helpful: https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/
> And that’s a much bigger problem then Mulder and Scully not making rent.

It’s only a problem if you want the government to be spending even more money. They already spend approximately 1/3 of the GDP and that’s plenty big enough for many. If they want to pay people more, change the denominator.
The $150K number for a family of 4 sounds about right, but $100K for one person in NYC seems pretty far off. I have a lot of friends living in desirable neighborhoods making half that.

(The disconnect here is always around expectations: it will invariably be revealed that this includes a 1/2BR with no roommates within walking distance of the person’s workplace, when in reality much of this city has roommates and uses mass transit. Law enforcement are mere mortals like the rest of us; they can stoop to taking the subway to work.)
I've been trying to get Excalidraw+ for my team since October. It's 8€/month/user.
It depends what you mean. In the UK our institutions are centuries old. Heck the working class house my grandmother lived in until she died was older than the state of California.

The constitution is only as strong as the institutions that defend it. The U.S. is not there yet but the political nature of the courts and the judiciary are an anathema to a Brit.
You’re telling me that an organization that has zero incentive to be efficient with money is being penny wise and pound foolish?

This is the same problem with violent and criminal cops - the lawsuits against the department are paid by taxpayers, not the offenders.

The people who make these bad decisions aren’t wasting their own money - they’re wasting the money taken from you and I by force. They have no incentive to stop wasting it.
Cool, I learned something. But it also does seem like that would take additional energy(due to the particularly high enthalpy of water, if I remember my concepts correctly) so at least where I am, venting the excess moisture is the most expedient method.
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No distractions like friends? No awareness that Max has headlines like "forged by his father's beatings and humiliation?" You should probably seek a less results driven focus on life, perhaps with a therapist, unless just trolling in which case carry on. But regardless, there's an article called "Why we stopped making Einsteins" that you may find interesting.
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I am struggling a bit with this right now. Being a provider in the modern age means less than it used to. It feels like paying all the bills and being reliable isn’t valued much.
> Huh, ISPs are far from a natural monopoly.

Black is white. War is peace. Yeah, we know that.

> What makes you think they are? Especially if you take mobile broadband, paid 'public' wifi and satellite internet into account.

Neither mobile nor satellite (even Starlink) can compete for the main Internet connection for the majority of people. Around 50-70% of the US population has exactly ONE choice of a wired broadband ISP, and maaaaybe 2 if you count ADSL as broadband.

Less than 10% of the population has access to 3 or more wired broadband ISPs.
Altavista, Yahoo, Lycos and the likes weren't great in 1996, that's why everyone switched to Google in the first place.
What's the definition of 'in the work force'

Is a child with a paper route 'in the work force?'
What about when the FBI is corrupt?

Counterintelligence is CIA/NSA (who would never be in danger of that).
> making me admit I smoked a joint in California (not legal on a state level)

Wait, so weed is not actually legal in California?

I see big billboards around the valley and SF, advertising gummies as if it is a normal part of life. Is it inadvisable for any visitor to partake? This is useful information. It seems to be so normalised amongst tech folks in California these days that I could well imagine being offered a joint (or similar) if socialising in the evening whilst on a business trip.
Plus they have ironclad job security and a pension (which practically no taxpayers get), so it's not directly comparable to private sector salaries.
Yeah but this doesn't change how the model functions, this is just turning reasoning into training data by example. It's not learning how to reason - it's just learning how to pretend to reason, about a gradually wider and wider variety of topics.

If any LLM appears to be reasoning, that is evidence not of the intelligence of the model, but rather the lack of creativity of the question.
I'm floored they don't get a military-style cost-of-living-allowance. Similar situation of being assigned to live in arbitrary places, but (pending short term problems caused by slower or inaccurate COLA adjustments than rent changes) it's not a problem for US military members, since their pay varies by location, specifically to avoid the problem the article highlights.
Often when non-web based UI frameworks leave out CSS they don't elegantly fold it into their UI markup and/or language, they just don't have the features CSS has to begin with, or force you to declare it in the programming language which imo often looks ugly (especially if they try and make some kind of declarative DSL in an imperative programming language).
[dead] "Don't tell people how to think"
This doesn't mean that FBI will not have plenty of high paying workers as contractors, it just means that there will be less high quality FBI employees.
> The compiler knows better than the programmer what the hardware can copy fast

This is true, but aliasing makes it extremely difficult to automatically decide between reference and copy. For example, suppose you have a function that takes your array, and also a mutable slice:

fn f(a: [float32; 3], out: &mut [float32])

And now you call it with the same argument twice:

let a = [1., 2., 3.];
f(a, &mut a)

The compiler cannot choose to pass a by reference here, since that would create simultaneous immutable and mutable references, which is forbidden by rust semantics
Ford was 35 when Star Wars came out. Overnight he went from an actor who worked as a carpenter to pay his bills, to to one of the three leads on the biggest film franchise of the century. When he went to a record store to buy an album, fans ripped half his shirt off.
The broader problem is lack of housing that can be afforded by the non-wealthy, which is caused in significant part by zoning laws. If more housing was available, the increased supply would better match the demand.
As we see with the GOP, if there's not enough money to do a job, they'll get bought out by the highest bidder.

So it's a bit bigger of a problem when you're talking about government jobs with large security concerns.
I believe their point was that FBI agents struggling to cover housing are more susceptible to external payments.
Computers got 99% cheaper, so by your analogy of only considering an arbitrary product, we have actually experienced deflation!