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Show HN: AI Sidekick – Copilot for team analytics in Slack
Hey Everyone!

We’ve been building in Slack & MS Teams ecosystem for a while & have consistently observed that our users request more & more analytics on the data being shared in standup notes/daily Q&A. With AI Sidekick, we’re set out to do just that! Each team lead could have an AI powered sidekick of their own which can tell them whatever there is to know about their team.

How does AI Sidekick work?

It’s super simple! Once you add AI Sidekick to your Slack workspace, all you have to do is ask your team members to start filling out daily Q&A or standup notes when they start their day. Sidekick needs at-least 3 days of data to run analytics, until then it will respond from Dummy/Test data to give you a feel of how it would work once it has more data about your team.

What’s next?

1) Sidekick Goggles
We want your sidekick to have supercharged visibility so that it can always answer who's who and what's what. We are working on integrating Sidekick with your team’s project management tools like Jira, ClickUp, Asana & daily utility tools like Calendar, Github etc. This will enable your sidekick to share insights like

“Harry had a productive month. He closed 7 support tickets and 43 tasks for the Acme Inc project in Jira. Additionally, he attended 4 client meetings and 9 team meetings.”

2) Sidekick Actions
We want your sidekick to be able to do more as it grows up. It will soon be able to take actions all across your tool stack. You will be able to set up team meetings, create new tasks, or simply ask your sidekick to take notes and remind you stuff. (Slackbot who? )

We’re very excited for all of you folks to take your very own Sidekick out on an adventure!
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Those situations are really not comparable. Jumping off a cliff has a near 100% death rate. This sub on the other hand has done this before.

A better comparison might be climbing mount everest in the 80s.
In this case it might just be standard procedure to move to "language_standard = current_year - N" without any specific code base changes in mind. It makes sense to not fall behind too much (to not allow surprises to pile up, even if no code changes are planned), while also not using the latest standard which might still have incomplete compiler support.
In acynical way, it is fitting. Titanic was not the worst marine desaster in term of life lost. But since it was the rich and the celebrities who died on tha Titanic, well, it was enough to tackle safety.

When safety issues cause the loss of life, but don't for some reason grab the headlines in specific ways, nobody cares.
i'd love any and all informed speculation on what the 8 models could be. it seems fascinating that we don't know.
Hacking a social media site together and break stuff is fine. Move fast and kill people and iterate seems not so fine.
We were on a camping trip for the last 3 weeks through Sweden and Denmark with our VW T4 Van (Caravelle, Long Version - Not sold in US). We're usually the smallest car on campgrounds. It is incredible to see how big these RVs are getting. We try to find campgrounds with spaces without electricity because these massive campers need the electricity to power all their gear. Otherwise, we often will look at 5+ m plastic walls to both sides of us.

Our T4 on the other hand can fit in everywhere, we often stay in Sweden where regular RVs are forbidden, but car-sized is allowed. It fits 2x 200x80 cm standard matrasses behind the backseats, enough for 2 adults and kid. We even packed 2 Windsurfboards _inside_ the car.
That's half of the solution. The other half, I'm convinced, will be a tool that makes complex things possible. After all, if I really need some complex filtering, find's primitive logical operators probably wouldn't even be sufficient. To that end, I love how Nushell's leading example on their home page is

ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified

It seems so elegant! Down with strings! …But it's not my life yet, since last time I wanted to try Nushell they didn't have scripting yet, and I have yet to circle back around to it. There's also Elvish and PowerShell and Oil Shell but they all have their own issues.
There is no difference, "emergent" is another hype term used in place of "discontinuous generalisation".

ie., with 1MB data you dont get generalisation, with 1TB you do. So they call that emergence.

I'm almost at the point where I can let these things go; but each new bit of mystifying hype, another stone falls in my shoe.
Synesthesia added the ability to switch to a grand staff sheet music standard notation several years ago, unless you're talking about something else.
How likely is it that they actually have survaced but nobody found them yet? Would sonar pick them up if their engines are out? How likely is a visual contact on the ocean if the sub drifted a few miles?
Nop. I noticed r/cryptocurrency flags enormous amount of articles from many recognized websites. And this article is based on a quote from former SEC official.
You would think that but the Nintendo Switch controller still has analog stick drift many years after being discovered.
And then you lose the benefits of federation.
My 2¢ suggestion would be:

> Therefore, [understanding] the amount of cognitive load we need to build in our brains in order to understand code is crucial.

By the way, this was a great read. Thanks for sharing.
This isn't a class thing. I would also be against encouraging a miserable billionaire to kill himself.
> Having the same shallow conversations over and over with different individuals

I'm ADHD-neurodivergent so I get the point here, but think of this phenomenon as verbal handshaking. The point isn't the subject matter of the conversation, it's everything else about the exchange. You could almost get the same effect just from spouting word salad at each other, the content doesn't matter. It's how people feel out others whom they don't know very well, with a lot of observation gathering going on. There's a social dance you typically need to go through before someone else will feel comfortable engaging you on a more personal level.
It'll be another appaling surprise if they didnt have a panel or box along a checklist, either inside the sub or next to a control panel to store and verify all those safety pins and locks.
Still totally irrelevant.

"Living near traffic noise increases your chance of stroke. Probably not the best place to be putting impressionable young people looking for connection"

This isn't about _living_ near traffic noise (which is what has been "proven by scientific research). It's about some young people doing an event for a few hours in a city setting.

The chances of young people in general having a stroke are near 0, and the concern of them having a stroke because they stayed near traffic noise for a few hours is so low and misguided, it doesn't even make sense. Might as well worry about falling pianos when standing near buildings.

It's also doubly irrelevant, as the "high traffic areas" in the story refers to pedestrian traffic, not motor traffic. Simply, they set them up where many people pass, so they can find people to shout that slogan to.
Yes, this was my thought too. Titanic depth, I think, would not be too deep for steel cables to reel it back in, but marginally. It could also double as a communication link.
x2 or xy? x2 is one neuron and probably a dosen iterations max. xy may be a bit more
complicated - like the stackoverflow explains

13B parameters - yes, it’s essentially 13B multiplications/additions (the most basic neuron is y=activation_function(x*weight+bias).
Because Twitter is trending towards bankruptcy.

a) It is valued at about a 1/4 of what it was purchased at.

b) Twitter Blue has generated an irrelevant amount of revenue and churn is increasing [1].

c) Roadmap looks poor. Video is a terrible direction where only Google, Amazon, TikTok etc have been able to make the numbers work and that's because it is subsidised through other revenue sources. Payments is DOA given Twitter's inability to comply with existing regulations let alone how difficult KYC/AML is to manage.

d) Regulatory and legal risk increases by the day. Lawsuits continue to pile up and EU/FTC are hovering around as Twitter is not in compliance with previous agreements.

e) Brand safety continues to be a huge challenge that isn't solvable without effectively going back to what Twitter was previously.

f) BlueSky and Instagram are both releasing competitor apps to the broader public in the coming months. The market simply won't sustain this many text-based social media apps.

[1] https://github.com/travisbrown/blue
Super interesting work, thank you for the follow up. Some of my customers use stuff like this so it's nice to see someone from the supply side. It's interesting to think about the different kinds of defects. "Not like the rest" is a fairly easy kind of defect to detect, "Structurally different from the baseline" is a bit harder and a whole batch that is different in some important aspect is quite hard.

FPGAs are super powerful for applications like these, I see them used in plenty of sensors where flexibility and being future proof is a must so that you don't need to redesign the entire sensor for every variation on the theme.
I'm really frustrated by anyone that poo-poos this specific issue. One shall absolutely fucking obsess, me for instance about the game controller they used. Look at this.

https://i.imgur.com/FrdR7TP.png

So the F710 Logitech gamepad was something I wouldn't even trust as a teenager to let me play emulated retro games accurately. It has a hardware switch to toggle between DirectInput (an ancient input technology within Microsoft stack), and XInput which is a non-trivial third-party software to map controllers to do things on your computer. Complaints range from 'the input switch was finicky and I had to tape it down' to 'you had to insert the USB dongle into the computer carefully like trying to get a Nintendo cartridge to work'. In this case, it was the main navigation control on a submersible far exceeding its safety buffer by orders of magnitude.

Sure, military applications have found use for XBox and other controllers as system inputs because generations of those serving are used to that interface. The differences are not subtle:

1. There had to be a certification process to use the controller, including risk analysis which would absolutely deny any attempt to use wireless controllers to operate any piece of equipment, no less anything that was weapon or safety critical. The military doesn't drive boats with XBox controllers.

2. XBox controllers are well designed and reliable, at an order of magnitude of this one. THEY ALSO COME IN A WIRED VERSION.

3. They decided to further mod the controller for no reason with longer sticks, maybe to make it look less like the toy it is which actually reduces the dead spot response of an analog joystick. Why? What the fuck.

The reason for the photo above is to show what I've seen in every media piece where they talk about it: It is NEVER wired in any video or photo. In one video, which I can't dig up right now, the CEO actually tosses the controller carelessly on the ground and quips that "these things are designed for 16 year olds to throw them around".

Edit: The bit mentioned above is at 0:37 in this video: https://youtu.be/ClkytJa0ghc?t=37 - "we keep a couple of spares on board just in case", that's great but I'm wondering who in that sub knows how to pair an ancient Logitech gamepad and remap XInput like a kid playing Diablo.

That is on video and a joke during the interview, forget for a second that they're using a controller from 2005-era for a moment; at that point on something like an airplane or a battleship, you just caused an incident that requires maintenance testing to make sure you didn't just disable the fucking vehicle by throwing the controls around for fun.

No. Don't disregard this specific reckless decision even though it likely had nothing to do with whatever went wrong in this situation. The CEO of the company from the get-go abandoned any semblance of basic safety in engineering, and fired/sued the guy in charge of safety when he called it out. This controller is a metaphor for something that needs to immediately be regulated so that people like this can never get away with it again.
It's not a bluetooth based, it has a receiver that you plug to the computer.
I would break that into two challenges:

discoverability: knowing that do actually you have a book. this can be ensured by having a recognizable side of each book visibly exposed. This helps prevent, among others, embarrassing moments when you realize you bought a second copy of a book you already have

recoverability: ability to pull a book (for those rare instances that you will actually need to do so)

admittedly these constraints would make 3D book packing less dense than a sphere packing. the closest solution is probably mobile shelving [1]. Now we only need to find a way to live in such a place :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_shelving
> inMusic isn't free from controversy. Formed in 2012 by Jack O'Donnell, a former vice-president at DJ equipment brand Stanton

> Roger Linn, who made many ground-breaking drum machines in the '80s before creating the MPC 60 for Akai, has accused O'Donnell of failing to pay him royalties after acquiring Akai, repeatedly calling him unscrupulous and a "bastard" in interviews.

Is it absolutely necessary to fuck people over to get to the top? Would love to get some counterexamples.
Yes, Plan 9 made some bad choices in retrospect, at least in my opinion. The big dependency on the mouse is one of them but also assuming people will be in managed networks.
I have no doubt that total time spent in the app is a metric they track. Plus
scrolling through all of those videos on the way to the video you're actually looking for means there's a decent chance you'll see a thumbnail or title that catches your interest leading to more time watching videos. Either way, It'd be a shitty move and one that somebody should have caught and corrected a long long time ago.
If it was sarcasm, well, sarcasm travels through the intertubez very poorly. :V

My sentiment remains nonetheless: Anyone who deliberately breaks the flow of traffic for no good reason is a danger to other drivers.
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> In class 10th biology I was shocked to learn human stature does not change after puberty after growth plates are closed.

Well this is the thing about high school biology. It's greatly simplified, and almost everything you learn should have the disclaimer usually.

Late growth is not common, but not extremely rare.
> Fundamentally every risky decision is up to the individual. Even trusting the regulator is a decision (...). Therefore the final ‘responsibility’ for your safety is always personal, unless you were forced on board, or lied to about the construction.

It seems you are trying to say something along the lines of:

A. In cases where an individual has the freedom to make decisions (i.e. not coerced or manipulated)

B. The individual bears moral responsibility for the consequences of those decisions

To what degree did I convey what you were hoping to convey?

This is an flawed argument for at least two reasons:

1. The consequences flow from many people's actions. Figuring out credit and blame is a hard project in philosophy, even theoretically. In practice, it can often be impossible.

2. Humans have imperfect abilities to predict consequences

Point A does not always hold -- not even most of the time. Individual conscious awareness and volitional control is limited. We are largely driven by subconscious and non-volitional parts of our brains. Not to mention by environmental constraints.
A few years ago I sold/donated every book I own. Literally every book, except for a handful of author-signed books that had memento value.

Most things I can find online or at the library. There were a few out of print books that I can’t get through the library and I regretted selling, but they were easy enough to replace. I now have a very small collection (single shelf) next to my desk.

Turns out 9 out of 10 of the books I thought I could never part with, I have never thought of or cared for since I got rid of them.

10/10 would purge again.
Then you can use "find | grep".
Link added: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics
Yes, the future of VR gaming looks closer to the Sony Playstation or even the Apple Vision than NVIDIA's products.
If I remember correctly, they have similar concurrency models. They were both written the same author as well, Rob Pike.

Edit: fixed a typo
I would guess the minimalism was a practical choice at the time, given it was a pretty small team making an entire OS. Had Plan 9 ever become some kind of commercial (or even open source) success, I'm sure a find command would eventually have found its way in.
LORA based off alt.sex.stories

There's a ton of adult story generative language models in kobold AI.
And with which equipment would you do that? Are there even submersibles with adequate tooling available in a small enough radius?

I've followed an OceanGate Titanic mission where a popular travel blogger was participating in and from what I understood there aren't many submersible vessels in the world able to go so low, let alone with functionnal tools. It is not like you can open the door to a diver for him to attach a cable, pressure is just too high.
But do note (given the context of this discussion) that Iced is completely unsuitable for the web. Early on it had an actual web renderer (iced_web), but they stopped maintaining it and it doesn’t work any more, so what you get if you use Iced on the web is the pure-canvas approach, which is fundamentally and irredeemably unsuitable for general-purpose web content and apps. (I’ve written about this a number of times here on HN; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33861831 is one.)

By all means use it on desktop platforms, but it won’t get you an acceptable web version.
Is there no app/api that abstracts all this away?
But wouldn't employing them as _contractors_ would sidestep all these difficulties?
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I'm not one for collecting stuff for the sake of collecting stuff, but I do have a fair number of books. Some of them are for reference, and a lot of them hang around because it's easier to put the book on a shelf once it's read than take them down to the second-hand store.

You analogy isn't the best, because one guitar is a reasonable substitute for another guitar, whereas a Mr Men book doesn't substitute for, say, "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML".
I want to preface this by saying that I am not a supporter of study drugs, except for caffeine.

I don't find these studies to be convincing. You give people a pill, they don't know what it is. These people don't know what to expect, they've never taken study drugs before. They're solving some random logic puzzle they've never seen before. "Participants had to work out which items to put into a bag."

Compare to how these drugs are used in reality. Someone takes a drug a number of times and performs a mental task that they do frequently. They can get a lot of practice using a drug. Does a new computer make you more productive on day 1, or does it take a while to get used to it, even if you know it'll help in the long run?

The real problems with these drugs are addiction, side effects, and the phenomenon where you have to take higher doses over time to get the same effect. Telling people "don't try study drugs, they don't even work!" backed up by questionable studies reminds me of DARE, telling people that marijuana will kill you.

Maybe one day we will get a drug that enhances mental function, that works effectively and has no real downsides. I think that could be a great boon to society. I don't think it exists yet though, or that we are even really making any progress.
> OceanGate Inc. is a privately held U.S. company operating out of Everett, Washington, that provides crewed submersibles for industry, research and exploration. The company was founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush.[1]

Why do you blame Silicon Valley for that?
> The worst prison disaster in a century also occurred in Honduras, in 2012 at the Comayagua penitentiary, where 361 inmates died in a fire. Most of the victims had never been charged or convicted of a crime.

Something is seriously wrong with their prison "system".
Though it is a thing that can be handled by Umbrella-corporation-as-a-Service such as Remote.com - that is their whole business model. (Not cheap though - $7k per employee per year.)
Someone commented here somewhere that ChatGPT closed the gap between native and non native speakers.

As a good non native German speaker, the ability to send a piece of text to a good LLM for review and correction is incredible. I do not need my wife to review the text I send to the tax authorities, the LLM is doing it for me (and I am good enough to critically assess the quality of the of the LLM work).
Yes, there are videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40SAJS2whY
It seems your comment is missing a part: There's only one list item - which is truncated:

> 1. There had to be a certification process to use the controller, including risk analysis which would absolutely deny any attempt to
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> and the print0 for pipeline integration

The existence of things like `-print0` is the downside of Unix's "all files/pipes are byte streams" design decision.

The IBM mainframe implementation of the pipeline idea – CMS Pipelines [0] – makes pipes record-based instead. Since the pipes are not streams of bytes, rather records with out-of-band boundaries, there is no need to reserve a special character (whether LF or NUL) to serve as a record separator.

> Integration with /etc/mime would be nice as well so I can just search for, say, "image" or "video"

It is a pity that Unix never had a "file type" field in the filesystem, unlike classic MacOS, Acorn RISC OS, among others. I suppose both those systems had the limitation that the file type was just a number, subsequent experience has demonstrated it needs to be a much longer string (such as a MIME type or Apple UTI). The problem with file extensions is the same extension ends up being used by completely unrelated applications for completely unrelated file formats – e.g. nowadays .doc is normally assumed to be legacy binary Microsoft Word, but many older archives it is a plain text file instead, or sometimes even some other word processing format.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS_Pipelines
String would not work, it's not strong enough. Steel cable would likely work. Depends on tensile strength of the material.
It wouldn’t be the first time they’ve had a mundane mistake that has potential severe ramifications - like fitting a thruster backwards. Doesn’t inspire confidence.

I mean - I can think of so many examples in my life where I’ve seen some safety measure Macgyvered out of existence because it was inconvenient, and familiarity breeds complacency. I’m reminded of some really gnarly ski lift accidents where emergency brakes were disabled because they tripped inappropriately due to improper maintenance, and flights which have taken off with their pitot tubes still covered, and inertial measurement units fitted upside down in rockets, and on and on it goes.
I had a good chuckle at "squishy machines". That's a really interesting way to think about it. It makes me wonder if, some day, we will be able to build "squishy machines" of our own, capable of outperforming silicon while using a tiny fraction of the energy.
Yeah find is a bad example for bloat, compared to GNU echo or GNU yes. find AFAIK is mentioned more for horror stories, Bernstein insults, as an example for alien parts of UNIX-like OSes which prevent from a streamlined, predictable-in-your-head experience. "It isn't windows server", a statement which devoids of meaning sometimes with powershell and with Azure cloud apis, but eh.