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I'm curious, why were people interested in these .name domains? john.smith.name is weird. Why not just get Johnsmith.me or net or whatever?

Were they charging a fractional rate since you were getting a fractional domain? If it was $3 USD per year, I could see the appeal for some.

This is a rentals response because we don't know if you live in a traditionally non-tipping society or if you meant that literally, including situations where tipping is a historical part of the job and priced into the income of the labor.

But if you are in the US, that's not an ethical response. Sure, don't add a tip at the register for a random interaction that wasn't a tipped exchange a few years ago. But if you aren't tipping at restaurants, bars, and the like of traditionally tip-based services, you aren't protesting, you're just being an @*. Society has set up the economic conditions of those jobs and those transactions to be reliant on tips. Everybody involved knows it. If you want to protest that arrangement ethically, the way to do it is to abstain from engaging with those services. If you want to protest tipping of restaurant servers, don't go to restaurants that engage that traditional relationship. Using the service but then refusing to tip is just not paying for the service provided. There's a word for that.

Fear! The answer is fear.

Fear by tipped labor that price adjustments in response to loss of tips will not make up for the tip income - maybe taken in part by the employer or just process not raised to the commensurate level.

Fear that higher wages that are fully taxed will be less than tips that are partially or fully undeclared and go untaxed.

Fear of posted prices. Customers subconsciously Fear the $20 entree becoming a $30 entree even if they consciously know they already pay $30 for it in the end.

And I suspect a subconscious societal Fear that if the burden of low traffic staffing is shifted from restaurant servers to restaurant owners, many won't survive and the restaurant industry will drastically shrink.

Someone Memento tips in terms of originally being intended as an extra bonus. Doubtful. Tips are a way of shifting risk away from restaurant owners and onto labor. An employee at a restaurant earning only a wage needs to be paid that wage for every hour they are present, regardless of whether their are diners paying to be served. In modern times, tipped staff have been paid an extremely low hourly wage and rely on tips to make up the difference. But when customer traffic is low, they make little in tops while the business loses little in labor costs for having them there, such that those tipped staff assume a chunk of the business risk. I imagine that this is a tradition that dates back a long time, and perhaps the work was all tips and no wage.

The spread of tipping is essentially an outgrowth of that original sin, a shift of business risk to desperate employees dressed up as higher income.

It sucks but it's hard to conquer a mad fear.

Core i, 4GB RAM is old? Naw dawg.

Is life not a "dead end" itself?

And still no love for Bing. That maps team

Meritocracy looks good on paper but the real world implementation fails abysmally. - see Pete Hegseth

If it's all imperfect failures, I personally prefer the failure that doesn't result in raising up white supremacists.

I recently watched a snazzy labs video of him trying or Tesla's most recent full self driving and finding that it could get stuck in infinite decision loops that required the user to take control - namely circular parking lots.

I can't wait until this becomes a game for riders, requesting drop offs at locations that force these things into loops after disembarking. With no starting wheel, and at that point no driver, getting to the next pickup could take a while.

The problem isn't the word cheap, it's just that'd you've attached it to the food, and not the diner.

Food4thecheap Good food on the cheap Cheapo's meal map Bums' Guides

Per the write-up, that's where the AI comes in - it's got confidence for days!

Turn your low confidence into high confidence by handing off diagnostics to an AI.

"We either need to operate right now so you don't die or the AI is hallucinating again and you're actually totally fine. You're the patient though, so it's your call in the end; what do you want to do?"

This sends like a more-info-requiered situation. Per this article, the LEOs seemed to be fishing, so they presumably couldn't claim as a matter of fact that evidence had been destroyed. Also, claiming destruction of property seems unreasonable since the phone, the property, still exists as before. If I sell my phone, I'm going to wipe it. I think we all understand that it would be ludicrous for the buyer to claim I was destroying the phone, the property they've been sold, by doing so.

Even if the accelerated executive capture of the judiciary is largely ruled back post Trump (big IF), I fear the government will be unwilling to pay with much of the convenience of rule-by-law that it's been given a taste for.

I love (/s) that there's a Cafe business that can survive on a singular customer base of people who parked their cars for a long time in one very specific parking lot.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wL9jK7Pnsc2Ezzp4A

It's solving the 'meatsack labor costs are really cramping my profitability' problem.

It's an inconveniently located valet service. But oh, you keep your keys. So it's really an inconvenient tow-truck valet service - or two guys with fork lifts.

I've wondered for a while what value is assigned if a user ignores or dismisses (when possible) a cookie banner without actively selecting accept or decline. Anyone know?

One might wonder why the Ford CEO cares about low cost foreign cars when Ford doesn't even make any. They have shifted all of their lineup except one car model to higher- margin compact SUVs, SUVs, pickups, and full size commercial vans. And that one car, the mustang, another one marketing exercise on four wheels with accompanying margin markup - not exactly a practical entry level car.

Oh, but the poors but the used cars and competition for their business will lead to greater supply of used cars, diminishing the resale value they can point to to justify purchase of their high-margin vehicles. Can't have that now.

What number is affiliate marketing on PT's list? Linking to Amazon rather than Project Gutenberg is the art of money getting, 2026 edition.

Something no one else would want - a little colored dot next to HN user names keyed to their generation, so I could quickly tell why none of the commenter mentioned AOL.

I feel sad that evening I read now has to pass through my "is this LLM slop?" filter, and if it gets caught, the content loses focus and the worthless puzzle of truth takes over.

So there was this: "I run engineering teams in Ukraine. My people lived the other side of this equation. Not the factory floor. The receiving end. While Raytheon was struggling to restart production from forty-year-old blueprints, the US was shipping thousands of Stingers to Ukraine. RTX CEO Greg Hayes: ten months of war burned through thirteen years’ worth of Stinger production. I’ve seen this pattern before. It’s happening in my industry right now."

The filter flashed the warning on the telltale signs and I stopped reading. Now I've got the puzzle I don't want to do. Did someone trying to argue against "AI assisted" coding use an LLM to author that argument?

But this is HN, I can also just move on to the next story.

This reads to me like you are putting effort into presenting your car is sick a way that satisfies your version of objectively neutral. I wonder if that is at the expense of details, because your claims provide no specifics for us to weigh independently.

As objective as you may want to sound, without any objective specific facts, all those words just boil down to "I'm a libertarian who used to support the EFF but don't like the way they're message anymore."

To each his own and all that but sitting in a hotel room hacking on a computer while on vacation (in Hawaii!) is PTSD trigger-warning territory for me.

Someone with a primary objective of personal wealth enrichment might see him as a pathway to those riches. As he has 'grand' societal goals that require allies and terribly odious views, someone who either likes the 'smell' of them, can't 'smell' or is a master of holding his nose closed odious would see sitting through it a a small price to pay for future monetary gains.

'Productive' here is practically bursting from all the euphemisms it's swallowed.

I would suggest 'more loosely coupled' perhaps, which in many cases they already are. Students may not want a surly, disinterested professor forced upon them because of a teaching requirement, but they won't want to miss out on great teachers forced to choose between teaching and researching. And as expressed by others, teaching and research reinforce each other to some degree. Teaching tests conceptual understanding and research incentivizes maintaining an understanding that tracks the knowledge limits of the field.

But this exists in many educational + research institutions already. Where it runs into problems is in resource constrained environments, where there aren't the budgets to support research-only positions that aren't 'less than' roles or the institution can't support the grant ambitions of highest 'performing' teaching researchers, stuck that they don't go to those institutions and more less research-focused (or at least smaller grant value) teachers populate those schools.

I'm trying not to make any value-judgements here, so please ignore and bias vibes that gives off.

So if you're keeping score, that's one party balloon and one of their own drones. The future looks bright!

This was a thing. I worked in an office of 4 within a larger facility back when booting up took some time and we had staggered morning arrivals. The first arrival would power on everyone's computers so they were ready. If someone came in, they'd see a computer on without someone there. Where are they? I don't know, maybe in the bathroom, getting coffee, or running down an issue in another department.

I can't wait until this thing exposes the bad opsec, where people have these agents hooked into their other systems and someone tasks their own adversarial agent with probing the other agents for useful information or prompting them to execute internal actions. And then the whole thing melts down.

Is this the actual text from the bot? Tech-Bro-speak is a relatively recent colloquialization, and if think these agents are based on models trained on a far larger corpus of text, so why does it sound like an actual tech-bro? I wonder if this thing is trained to sound like that as a joke for the site?

I imagine this seems "true" to people who don't consider public transit an option for whatever (class) reason.

As others have said, they definitely compete in the same market.

This.

The logical response to non- compliance with your country's regulations is simply to block them. 4chan probably won't care, but that's what will keep the bigger players like X and Meta engaged in some way. They won't want to be cut off from the European market, and a precedent set that 'non-awful' governments are justified to block them.

Of course, all this a month after the US invaded another country to snatch their president and his wife to put them on trial for US "crimes" they supposedly committed while not in the US and while not being Americans abroad. I wonder if the murdering of ~100 people in that operation is a crime there that those on the US would be expected to answer for \s. It's all so stupidly rich.

I would think even before that, $68M to avoid discovery that could reveal to everyone what they actually do and how they do it was the no-brainer decision point.