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We thought auto-generated titles could make life a bit easier. Creating the perfect title for every task can be tricky, especially when things get complicated. So, we added this feature to help with that. (This is also something I faced as a challenge while I was working in Airbyte the community does a great job at explaining the issues but we always have to edit the title to make it more crisp.)

Right now, we’re using the product ourselves and trying it out with a few customers. We’ve noticed that for simple placeholder tasks, a straightforward title works just fine. But for more detailed tasks with longer descriptions, the auto-generated titles seem to work better. We’re still experimenting and gathering feedback to make it even better.

Examples from our board:

Description: - utils.py 228 : Failed to call LLM with the following error: BedrockException Invalid Authentication - An error occurred (UnrecognizedClientException) when calling the InvokeModel operation: The security token included in the request is invalid.

Title: Feat: Investigate Salesforce cloud version error: Invalid Authentication

Description: Triage ux bug - once i decline or accept a triage request, it re-directs me to issues screen. Ideal behaviour to be at the triage list view where you either show removing it from triage or highlighting that an action have been taken on this request.

Title: Redirect user to Triage List after Accepting/Declining Request
Color me skeptical. I gave up entirely on Etsy because it was getting legitimately hard to find handcrafted goods for sale by the artisans.

> The company on Tuesday is launching a major overhaul of the policies that govern its site to make it “crystal clear” to shoppers what products belong on Etsy

And this is a big part of why I'm skeptical. Etsy was never unclear about this. They just didn't care to enforce their policy. A major effort to "clarify" what was clear strikes me as a PR move rather than a serious effort to bring Etsy back to what it was.

But we'll see! I'd love to see Etsy come back and hope they will.
This video does a good job of the noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aWmPzgpv6k
Thanks for sharing, neat. This makes me curious about the psychology of declarative vs imperative, and why some people gravitate towards one or the other (at least with UI code).

Back in the jQuery days, a lot of my hatred towards "JavaScript" was actually imperative UI code in hindsight. In the years since, I now enjoy declarative UI more but see some developers bang their head against declarative UI frameworks. It's an interesting contrast.
Awesome, thank you. Happy Hatch user.
While this is literally true, solutions in the form of "if everyone would just X" are not solutions at all.
I already have a grid which handles this situation. I'm lost on what your issue is with the grid?

The biggest issue in germany regarding grid and renewable is a distance of 800km between north germany which has a lot of wind and south germany which has a lot of solar.

Diverge it a little bit better and no issues
Well, I work for one of such corporations, doing modelling and simulation of HVAC/R systems, heat pumps included. You can believe or not, but there is not much competition there, unless you consider, for example, Carrier and Viessmann as separate manufacturers (and they are not since May 2023).
Did he say that played Limp Bizkit on his speakers and made everyone the plane listen to it?!?
Entrapment is when the state induces someone to commit a crime they would not have otherwise committed. For something to be entrapment, the state must overcome some level of resistance, not just provide an opportunity for a crime.

For example, leaving a car out and watching it get stolen is not entrapment. Buying drugs and then arresting the seller is not entrapment.

The police in Canada have a tactic, called "Mr. Big", where they introduce a suspect to an undercover agent posing as a criminal, usually posing as a high-level organized crime member, and then getting the trust of the suspect. This has resulted in entrapment. For example, in R. v. Mack, a police used a "Mr. Big" style system to try and get Mack to sell drugs. It wasn't until the police threatened him that he agreed, after which they arrested him. His conviction was later thrown out because it was ruled this was entrapment.
Usually: it’s left open to unfuck DNS.

Some of them will try force you to use their local resolver, but often UDP will be left open (or left open on port 53) because it is easier.

When they force a local resolver you can often tunnel over DNS requests, though this only works sometimes :)
> but is airplane wifi costly to provide

Depends on the location. Over populated land areas, no. Over oceans far from land, yes.
How are cars usually stolen? Are they driven away using the car's power or hauled away using a tow truck?
The point is that the feed crops can be grown in areas with abundant water and shipped elsewhere, so cattle don't have to be a significant contributor to local water shortages.
Seriously.

Back in the 90's a lot of movie production was being done on the SGI IRIX computers. Jurassic Park themed ones even. Really spiffy machines with both an excellent GUI and terminal.

Cheap WIN NT boxes with nVidia GPUs on them, were seen as the beat path forward.

SGI gear is also Jurassic Park style, "Spare no expense" and was not cheap! Super expensive machines, but people got what they paid for too.

Alias, Maya were ported to Windows and off to the races right?

Nope. Unix scripting, that awesome terminal and friends made all the difference in the world.

This was true even for smaller or single person shops who would do the work in a now slower SGI because the user experience was bang on point and that meant getting the desired outcome first time no bullshit.

The minute we had nVidia drivers, Linux was in to replace the SGI machines.

And, the production community realized they could each write tools or poet tools they were good at, share and share alike (to a point) and all be in business a whole lot cheaper and faster.

That took a couple maybe few years.

The "terminal" and what can happen in one and why really does matter.

Windows Power Shell is pretty OK at this point, but it is still its own thing, not playing very nice with the other kids in the sane box.

Lol, I always thought Microsoft happening in Redmond was symbolic. It really is!
I have first hand experience with this scenario: a large forest property that yields enough firewood for a season in the form of naturally felled trees.

The problem is that it's incredibly labour intensive vs clear cutting. It's hard enough to make paths to haul logs or equipment let alone all the work to prep and store the wood. It's doable, I've done it, but at the end of the day it's more efficient to import from someone else's lot. And pellets, even locally made, are even cheaper.

We've settled on partially supplying from felled trees (which is somewhat of a convenient byproduct of clearing trails) but the bulk of supply being purchased and delivered in the fall, to get us through the season. Pellets would be the obvious winner if we were willing to convert over, but I have too much attachment to the old stove.

The other thing is that felled trees provide a lot of resources back to the forest, and so at least for property I maintain, I prefer to let nature take course for the most part.
Nice math
China can’t invade Taiwan because it doesn’t have the ability to deal with carrier fleets.

(No such animal as a country called Taiwan. However there is an island called Taiwan.)

China doesn't need to invade the Republic of China. They just need to blockade it, just like Britain blockaded Germany in WW1 and WW2. The island of Taiwan would be out of fuel and food within weeks.

China invading the Republic of China would be like the US invading Hawaii. Why would you blow up your own stuff? You'd only have to spend perfectly good money to replace it.
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That's the point. Pretty much everything can fall into one of the 4 categories. No change is necessary for that to happen - all this at a time when folks are complaining that the site is full of mass produced stuff they could order themselves.
To be fair, it's similar because it's the problem people wanted solved - start this thing at boot, if it dies, restart it. I know rcS.d didn't handle the 'restart it', but even for the lowliest desktop user, if they've installed a daemon, and configured it to start, it more or less implies they'd like it to keep running.

Systemctl looks a lot like a modern init on another OS because a modern init on any OS looks a lot the same. Whether it should spawn 1800 subprojects is a different debate, but I for one am much happier maintaining trivial .ini like files than trying to teach the new engineer bash.
Seems more and more like cyberpunk type scifi authors had the most accurate prediction of the future.
> Easy for something mass produced to be handpicked by a seller or sourced by a seller.

Being able to filter out those would be nice. I wonder what counts as made/designed though. If assembling something counts as "made" or slapping a logo on a white label product counts as "designed" then it's not much of an improvement.
The ui of the website is such a steaming pile of doo doo (and the app is no better), they sort of ask to be exploited because it's so painful to use.

I just tried to order delivery, because I never had and skipped dinner tonight, started at 9:45. By the time I managed to get an order together, with assorted difficulties, and was actually forced to accept receiving their "opt in" promo offers to be able to complete registration, it was after 10pm and deliveries were closed for the night.

I'm definitely trying to exploit them tomorrow after that experience.
> How do you effectively apply to PhD grants, is it different to winning say Startup / Innovation grants?

I'm afraid that I don't have the faintest idea, both because my grant activity hasn't been noticably effective (and I held no grants while pursuing my Ph.D.), and because I've never applied for a Startup / Innovation grant.
I've been in Toronto for a decade and the only enforcements I've seen are transit related.

People do whatever they want here.

I lived in South America in the 1990s, but every now and then Toronto manages to shock me in worse ways.
I would expect a stolen wallet sold on Etsy to have been hand picked by an artisinal scoundrel.
Humanity evolved 300,000 years ago 290,000 of which we spent in dirt huts. Then we built supercomputers, went to space, and split the atom. It all happened in the blink of an eye. Zero growth is what we've seen for most of humanity. Our present growth means we're doing a lot right.

The main problem, as I see it, is that the slow grind forward can be more than offset by disastrous setbacks. Wars. Famines. Dark ages. Collapses of democracy or civil rights.

It's not "moral courage" or lack of forward progress we should be worried about. I'm confident the upside will take care of itself. Humanity will continue to invent and innovate because it's in our nature. As long as we don't blow up the civilizations we've built we're going to be just fine. This might require courage, but not the kind of moral exceptionalism Bregman is thinking of.
> It's very interesting how afraid we've become

You make it sound as if this is some kind of irrational response to nothing.

When in reality it's an entirely reasonable response to the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [1].

The interesting observation here wouldn't be about us "as a culture", it would be about the government.

Because obviously it's not about "changing your first name field on a form too often", it's about using that field for an unintended use, in order to bypass controls to give yourself access to communications the company didn't authorize you for.

I don't know why you think a kind of cultural fear is the thing to focus on here, rather than the very real law that sends people to very real prison.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
> handpicked by a seller, or sourced by a seller

Yes, those are categories that shouldn't be on a site that is what Etsy claims they want to be.
Do you really think folks are going to be honest about this?
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> 1000 cars could probably be had, new, for $30M.

I'd assume no one is risking stealing $30,000 cars to sell internationally.

> The guaranteed return is citizens not having their cars broken into. Better tourism, better economic opportunities (you can do a lot more business when you’re not worried about a degenerate breaking your windows).

TFA is about stealing cars, not smash and grabs.

> The guaranteed return is citizens not having their cars broken into.

How?

Stealing a car is already a high risk crime. If there is a less than .1% chance of encountering a bait car, and you are a desperate person, you probably aren't going to care much about the risk.

> high profile prosecution

If we were talking smash and grabs, there isn't going to be high profile prosecutions, and it doesn't seem like this is true [1].

[1] https://popcenter.asu.edu/content/sting-operations-page-5#:~....
Google has begun broadly enabling case randomization in domain queries (2023)
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I know what BS

“The platform’s new rules require all items to incorporate “a human touch” as outlined by its creativity standards”

That’s just as bad as hand crafted pizza in the frozen grocery aisle - yes at one point someone had to design this pizza, then they crank them out on a machine like everything else.
In many rural/remote locations – especially off the grid – heating with wood (or oil-based products) is the only way to survive the winter. It isn't necessary to cut down entire forests to produce wood either – if you own some forest it is largely a byproduct of cutting down dangerous/dead trees and clearing ones that fall down naturally.

Burning wood only becomes unsustainable when it is done on a commercially viable scale.
In my days of messing around with PHP, I wrote a Twitter bot called "SongBuddy" for the purpose of looking up a song via SMS based on some lyrics.

You would send it a DM via SMS (which Twitter supported at the time) containing a few lyrics, and it would do a Google search of "<your input> lyrics", parse the search results, and in theory return the artist and title to you via SMS.

It never worked very well, but I was proud of it!
UK homes 3D and LEO satellite scanned for energy leaks
I try to put myself in the other person’s shoes to understand their emotions and find the best advice.
Patents no longer go to individual people. They go to corporations. Perhaps we should ban corporations from getting patents on behalf of people.
I am of the opinion that there is something to learn from everyone. However I come to HN for civil discussion. That was not a gotcha or are we trying to win something. Mesopotamians needed complex mathematics for taxes long before even Mycenian Greeks came into picture. You are talking about classical Greeks. Naturally there were advancements in mathematics during the Greek period, but that does not undermine the achievements of Mesopotamians.
Wood burning can be made sustainable. Where I live, the forest service encourages people to take dead trees out of the forest. It reduces the fire load. And building codes and EPA certs have done a lot to clean up wood stoves. https://www.epa.gov/burnwise
We are also working on a more chat-based approach to interact with the tool. To let you directly handle things from the messaging tools like slack.
> These powerful middlemen may be profiting by inflating drug costs and squeezing Main Street pharmacies,” the FTC said in its findings, two years into an investigation of top PBMs and their impact on prescription drug prices in the United States.

Considering they are publicly listed businesses, their profit margins are available for all to see:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CI/cigna-group/pro...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CVS/cvs-health/pro...

Low single digit profit margins don’t seem problematic to me. What seems to be happening is managed care organizations (aka health insurance companies) are able to squeeze dispensing pharmacies due to more negotiating power.

The alternative would be raising insurance premiums.
It is good to see the company admitting that it had joined the race to the bottom, though the cynic in me points out that they wouldn't be doing so if they were winning the race (Temu and other recent upstarts are doing rather well there).

Etsy loosened rules that limited generic sales in order to gain growth, and where the rules still have restrictions (i.e. the use of external delivery, including drop-shipping, are permitted as long as you designed the item), those restrictions are a mix of difficult to enforce (i.e. takes man-power to police) and easy to work around (drop-shipped product has a custom logo on the box, does that count if the logo is your design?).
A self-replicating form of artificial life has arisen from a digital “primordial soup” of random data, despite a lack of explicit rules or goals to encourage such behaviour. Researchers believe it is possible that more sophisticated versions of the experiment could yield more advanced digital organisms, and if they did, the findings could shed light on the mechanisms behind the emergence of biological life on Earth.
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Then you'd better at least minor in mathematics, focusing on topics such as number theory, discrete mathematical structures, linear algebra, and modern algebra (studies groups, rings, and fields). This will provide you the mathematical background you're going to find useful for studying AI.
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Social breakdown. No access to housing. Opiate epidemic. Hyper alienation. Mental health crisis.

This kind of crap was happening in "outlier" cities around Toronto for quite a few years before it got into Toronto proper. Downtown Hamilton, Brantford, London, etc. have been problem zones for years on account of broken down working class people with no prospects and (I'm guessing) opiate or meth addictions. COVID only made it worse.

Every public park here in Hamilton has tents all over, basically permanent.

The way to start to solve this is to give people housing.
The liquidation is the company being stripped of assets, who then gets sold of to highest bidder in order to pay the creditors, some of those assets might very well be fully operational business units that someone else(a competitor or the government) want to buy whole.

I known that the us chapter 11 is kind of a bad way to do bankruptcy as it don't really wipe out the whole but allows the previous executives way to much of a stake in the process where as other countries replaces the leadership with a bunch of court/creditor appointed outsiders on day one.
The kias are a unique case to be fair. Back in the day pretty much all cars were like them.
Florida: Tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise
Where are these grids and fences used, and why?

What you will see in Estonia - forest is cut down and then some kind of plow makes lines in the forest to prepare the ground for planting trees. The trees are planted and in the next few years there will be lots of new growth, bushes and small trees that have grown from seeds or didn't get any sun below the old trees.
The newly planted trees are sometimes hidden betwen the bushes and grass etc, but they are there.

Source: I go orienteering and have had to search for checkpoints on these former clearings or have made the mistake of trying to run through them.
Except you’re on a literal plane flying through the sky. This isn’t the same as being on the ground with permanent cables attached to your internet connection. Not only is this incredible that you’d get internet at all, it’s totally reasonable for it to cost a lot more!
What is not sustainable about it? I hope you know that international trade in food is a thing? As long as they can make stuff that the people who can make food want, it's all fine.

(And you also know that Egypt is just about the oldest country on the planet? They always had their population concentrated in a narrow strip along the Nile; even if, like in the rest of the world, population numbers have obviously gone up a lot since eg the industrial revolution.)
For perspective on Canadian policing re cars and theft:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stolen-licence-plate-...

>> I was quite flabbergasted that the police weren't at all concerned," Novak said.

>> Halton police say they've since seized the stolen plate from an unoccupied vehicle.

So the cops tracked down the stolen plates and removed them. No arrest of the people using the plates fraudulently. No seizure of the vehicle. The cops just unscrewed the stolen plates and walked away. They really don't care about vehicle-related property crime.
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"I’d forgotten to charge my headphones so Limp Bizkit started playing out of my laptop speakers. Fortunately no one else on the plane seemed to mind so we all rocked out together."

People like this lack basic civility. I'm sure a lot of the people around Robert did mind, they were just too polite to ask him to stop imposing his gratuitous noise on them.
Just one of the fun ones https://slate.com/technology/2015/04/perchlorate-in-martian-...

Wiki has other details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_soil

In any case, point is: We need to stop being a threat to ourselves, and hoping that another planet, for which we're not evolved to survive on, is a better choice feels like the wrong path. Humans are amazing at surviving... on earth. Because we evolved to survive here.

Having a "plan B" is not a bad choice, because a lot can happen that we cannot prevent. However we can't resettle everyone. Most will die. Plan B is to continue the species, but not necessarily to actually save us.