Determining if a function is harmonic in some subset of the plane

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Determine if the function $f(x,y) = \ln(\|(x,y)\|)$ is harmonic in some subset of the plane.

So knowing that from the Laplacian $$\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + \frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2} = 0 $$

I could determine if its harmonic I went to compute the second-order partials and got that

$$\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + \frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2} = \frac{y^2-x^2}{(x^2+y^2)^2} - \frac{x^2-y^2}{(x^2+y^2)^2} = 0 $$

This resulted in $2y^2-2x^2=0$

I'm not sure I follow how I can find the subset of the plane here? Restricting $x$ and $y$ somehow?