skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Oh.. but skip cell A.. 6? or whatever, the one with the .. uhh... "

'Error processing your request. I emailed your supervisor with my error condition.'

"No, no! Stop. Just do whatever you did first, but now you do like the other thing too, with the skipping of the cell with the.. uh.. what's it called?! ampersand?"

'I will average the last 3 columns while adding random numbers to the rest of your document, sure. By the way, this is the information you requested. I have also forwarded it to the company CEO: 'The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et—Latin for "and"'. SOURCE: wikipedia.'

Proceeds to mess around with LLM for 3 years instead of learning wat AVERAGE() is and how it works
Actively | Software Engineers (some combination of LLMs/backend/data infra and general engineering across the stack) | Full-time | NYC | Onsite

I'm one of the founders of Actively. We're building best-in-class machine learning and LLM-powered scoring for outbound sales teams. Our first product lives in Salesforce, ingests data from a variety of sources (firmographics, intent signals, marketing interactions, and prior engagement, including unstructured call transcripts, email chains, and notes), and combines LLMs with structured models to tell sales reps who they should reach out to each day (and why) to be laser-focused.

Our paying customers are fast-growing unicorns you've definitely heard of with large outbound sales motions, where the reps use us to target their outbound every day. Our thesis is that scoring (a known/"need to have" part of the stack -- but able to be done 10x better with LLMs because you can incorporate the goldmine of unstructured engagement data) is the right wedge into building the intelligence-driven outbound sales stack of the future that _actually works_ for large companies that need to generate millions of dollars in pipeline each quarter. Unlike most other companies in the space, we are explicitly building for companies of this scale and have them using our product today "in production."

We started with the vision of bringing AI to every business team, and have since narrowed down to focus on outbound sales teams who have a bunch of attractive properties (there are a _ton_ of them out there, they all use the same stack, the data is consolidated in one place, lift is measurable and directly touches the top line, etc.).

We're a team of 6 working in-person in NYC with a team from Scale/Waymo/Google/etc. (including some very senior folks) and looking to bring on another engineer as we start scaling our customer base. If you have at least a few years of experience, are highly entrepreneurial / excited to work closely with customers + dig in across the business, and are excited to work on some combination of LLMs/data infra/across the stack, we would love to chat: mihir [at] actively.ai!

Keywords: AI, ML, LLMs, machine learning, Salesforce, explainable AI, product engineering, data infrastructure
I can do an average function in Excel. But I can not remember the word of the function in all three languages that Excel have decided that I should be proficient in Excel in. The translation of functions is the single worst design decision in that product.
It works fine on pipewire's jack emulation, which is much less of a headache
Made one myself, then found this on HN and have been using it since: https://github.com/npiv/chatblade

Some say it's because it's not free, but it just feels good
You might be right for this scenario.

For a contrast: I use Copilot in vscode a lot. There it's pretty good at guessing what I am trying to do, and offering an auto-complete for it.

So mostly it feels like it's just helping me do the thing I wanted to do anyway, but faster.

But if eg a user knows how averaging of numbers works, but just doesn't know how to express it in Excel, even that example would be useful. I agree that if a user doesn't know how averaging works on a conceptual level, copilot won't save their butt here. (At least not yet.)
I'm uncertain about the matters pertaining to this article.

As a reference, since the late 70's, California has a history of adopting unproven and untried pedagogical fads for the entire state. California's abandonment of phonics (reading) was the impetus for the creation of the private schools by the name of Challenger. A commercial productization of this superior method had an annoying TV ad that morphed into a meme.
Thank you for your kind words, even though I never called you names, whoever you are.

You have your personal believes and ethics, I have mine; please show some respect and understanding.
I'm wondering the same thing. Standardization would be interesting but I wouldn't bet on it. Maintaining different vector columns for different models might work well?
Misplaced comment considering this is not about Github Copilot.

> Think of CoPilot as having your very own ChatGPT seamlessly integrated into all your Microsoft applications – Windows, Edge, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Likely the title alone deserves a snarky remark. Yet,

>We believe Copilot will fundamentally transform our relationship with technology and usher in the new era of personal computing,

is a beyond ridiculous assertion. Of course, beliefs are hard to proof, so there is enough of weasel talk.
Still waiting for "GitHub Copilot for Your Codebase" [0]. I think this will be a huge improvement over the already very useful Copilot.

[0] https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-view/
I feel the biggest misleading statements around Julia is that for true speed you can somehow ignore the lower abstractions, or that there is some kind of free lunch, but always what you gain in performance you'll spend in development time. Julia has some neat tricks, but they are not generally and universally applicable at least not like other languages. I dunno. These arguments against Julia are many, but I'm still appalled they have so many handy wavy misleading statements in just their introductory text, I don't think it be less than a decade before they recover.
> Unlike eugenics, where otherwise perfectly normal humans would have been born, this use case is focused on negative traits that would have resulted in a lifelong tragedy for everyone involved.

If the intention was to abort a genetically undesirable pregnancy, then that is literally textbook eugenics.
One of my nearest avoided the pain of dying from cancer and years of painful treatment simply by suiciding. It was hard to accept her choice not to stay with us for few more years, denying our care. But of course I forgave her. We all forgave her. Edit: better said, we had no business forgiving her or not, that would be the worst forms of entitlement I could imagine. What I mean is that we still love her, no hard feelings.
I'm not sure why you think that message is being "clearly sent". I would discourage you from drawing conclusions based on the open roles with no knowledge of who is already employed in each location.

Instead, if a role is of interest to you, apply and you will get to speak to engineers from Lisbon during the process. They could answer any questions you have about where decisions are made and the autonomy of teams. I think you would be pleasantly surprised by the answers.

Alternatively, my email is in my profile. I can put you directly in touch with someone in the engineering team in Lisbon if you'd like to speak to them before speaking to a recruiter.
I think biggest change will be how people make stuff so it will impact more in work than in personal space. Think something like if smartphone is car, LLM is more like truck.
I think it will make us dumb and we're slowly becoming the dystopian world from Idiocracy.
But does the comparison really hold? IMO, you'd have to have your "intimate" public discussion carved in stone or something to be comparable. Your example is more like SnapChat or any other platform that limits the lifetime of postings.
A quick summary on modern Golang bootstrapping
> share did not increase even when Microsoft signed a contract with Apple to make Bing the default search engine on iPhones,

I don’t recall Bing ever being the default search engine in Safari.

The deal was exclusively about Siri (which barely anyone used..)
I get you, and you are not alone in this challenge. I do know several people who have lost their accounts and they report the same. In fact, I was also suspended erroneously a long time ago and resolved it via online chat, somewhere here

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a554153
Only in the metaverse…
If you're looking for UptimeRobot alternatives, would you be open to taking a look at what we've been building at Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ ? Curious to hear if that covers what you need or if there are any critical features we're missing.
You should probably also read "Wearing the hair shirt" (2003).

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing...
I had a chance to look at an early version of Unblocked. I think the huge benefit is when you work in a microservices environment or with many clients.

Over time, engineers get comfortable working on their own microservice but don’t have the context to make changes in microservices that other team’s own. Having iOS, Android, and web clients exasperates this.

Unblocked helps engineers get all of the context they need around changes. When teams grow, this context ends up in places like Slack threads that are 100 comments deep.

As much as you try to get engineers to write documentation, it just makes more sense to pull already written context from Slack and GitHub and generate the documentation.
I think the dream goes beyond just that sort of simple "do something in this spreadsheet because I can't be bothered to think".

I think the end game is you open excel and say "Work out what our budget is for the FooSnaggit event based on what Tim said in his email yesterday, and what we spent last year." (for example) and it will go off and read your email and read your other sheets and generate the right thing based on that prompt and that context from your other documents.

I think that will be incredibly powerful ... if it can be trusted. Trouble is now I can't trust these things to get these sort of things correct, so you end up having to double check everything and make corrections etc so you are not really saving that much time.or effort.
It was already hard to find a conference room sometimes there on a day when only 10% showed up. I can only imagine how bad it is now that people are there 50% and needing to VC with the other 50% that are home or in another office that day.
When someone tells me they are a Marxist, my reaction is similar to when someone says they are a Nazi.
That's 30 European vacations days before public holidays, so closer to 40, and more important is that you are expected to actually use them with no eyebrows raised
I think, even if very sarcastically worded, you're onto something.
Ask a postmaster
You joke, but this is how people normally work. Do things in ways easy to lean, but ultimately slow and inefficient.
It's disappointing to see so many TERF voices here. Transmisogynists tend to also be regular misogynists.

I hate to think about how all the folks here with hateful/bigoted comments are either current or potential future coworkers.
How do you envision this simplification of user interfaces? How exactly will you ask Excel to "add a column averaging the last 3"?

Note: neither asking by voice nor typing it out simplifies the interface.
TLDR; Marxism is great if you ignore all the things Marxist countries have done.
IIRC this was the fork of the abandoned Truecrypt which had its code verified and basically certified to have no backdoors or major cock-ups, and then given a new (terrible) name before quietly fading into the background…

Truecrypt was really great, and I enjoyed their take on plausible deniability, but haven’t used it since maybe 2006.
Have a play with mojeek.com. Also heard good things about kagi, that is paid, though, I believe.
PC’s brought computers to the masses.

Copilot gives the masses programming capabilities without having to drill into trivial platform knowledge per each language they use.
Probably Kagi… maybe chatgpt
It'll probably be as bad as Google, Stack Overflow, or every other thing that people's have complained about making us dumb. Even books and the printing press went through this phase where everyone was worried that the next generation of scholars wouldn't be able to memorize books.
> It is a trivial setting to change.

Most/many people won’t it undeniably gives a massive advantage to google.
Why are its eyes red?
GOPROXY is enabled by default. “Since Go 1.13, the go command by default downloads and authenticates modules using the Go module mirror and Go checksum database.” https://proxy.golang.org/
>Large language models are still in their infancy

We have been hearing the same about anything AI related for decades already.
Most of the heavy lifting is done by MobileSheets. I have the e-paper version installed on my tablet, and the android version on my phone. You have to buy them separately; the e-paper one is only for sale on the online shop, but you get an APK and punch in a license key.

I do the set management on my phone, and then sync it over to the tablet. Phone's faster UX makes it less cumbersome, but this is mostly for convenience. The sync features are built in, and can be useful for more than just library management; when I'm playing with other horn players who have the app on an iPad or another e-ink display, we can sync it together and have page turns and other features occur automatically across all of us.

When performing or practicing, I often have the phone set next to the bigger screen, showing the upcoming page. They are synchronized using the same means as across different players.

For page turning, I use either an AirTurn Duo or an AirTurn Quad. The Quad mostly stays at home, with the extra pedals used to control midi playback. MobileSheets has built-in support for the AirTurn, so setup is a breeze.

Finally, a decent chunk of the music I get is old sheet music from sheet music libraries; I simply scan them to PDFs. For more modern pieces, or pieces where more work needs to be done (i.e. transposing, rearranging, etc), I use LilyPond.

MobileSheets: https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/

AirTurn: https://www.airturn.com/collections/bluetooth-pedals
I agree with this sentiment, like the majority of CS people are telling statisticians that a lot of Julia remains a kind of snake oil or otherwise mystical thinking, it is very unfortunate. Even in the first page of the documentation "No need to vectorize code for performance; devectorized code is fast" is some kind of category error redefinition of how programming languages work in my opinion.
Classic Microsoft naming issues
Nah. All the Telemetry^TM is already built into the OS. No need for any even first-party additional software!
Show HN: A CLI project tool for VSCode with devcontainer support
Prop 13 says they can't do that. Only the county can charge 1%.

Irvine CA wanted property tax and so they get builders to force you to an extra fee but it isn't technically a property tax.

Not to say there isn't sometimes a fee or two added but it isn't the Wild West at all.
> would also have liked to leave

you have no data about their wishes whatsoever.
Clippy is a he, btw.
Are we still talking about a language model?
"Oh.. but skip cell A.. 6? or whatever, the one with the .. uhh... "

> Which column would you like me to skip?

The one with the sales during covid.

> Okay, I have averaged 2 of those last 3 columns, skipping the one with the sales during covid which had a header with the text "COVID data".
But what I want to focus on is the power of a visionary leader to set out on bold ambitions and bring ideas to life.

:vomit:
As someone who has worked a lot with CJK in Unicode, I can not support the sentiment that Unicode uniquely screws Japanese. You'll always have to use an appropriate font for the task, the encoding won't help you. Yes, the idea of "Han Unification" was somewhat naive and even questionable, and one might ask whether it is still being applied to new codepoints, and there are some weirdities in CJK encoding (but those apply across all concerned languages and are not unique to Japanese).

Then again, it is a difficult taks. For example, there are three ways to write the first (topmost) stroke of 言: as a slanted dot (now PRC standard), as a short vertical (very common in pre-war prints, still used in Japan) or as a short horizontal (also very common). Sure, one can make three codepoints out of these, no big deal. But then 言 occurs in a gazillion of other characters, as in 說這語信 and so on; all of these characters would then need to get codepoints of their own (which btw is exactly what happened with 說 vs 説 (and incidentally 说)). It gets worse when you consider that another one or two components of a given character may also have two or three variants, then you might get 3x2=6 or 3x2x3=18 codepoints for what most people consider a single character. And did I mention we already have around 100'000 codepoints for CJK Ideographs? That number would multiply considerably.

Although I've worked extensively on these problems—what is a variant, what deserves a codepoint—all I've found that there can and should be guidelines, but there's no very hard and fast rule. And I'm afraid variant selectors are a cop-out, not a solution.
There are plenty of examples where research or researchers have been cancelled for factual objective analysis.

Your comment seems disingenuous.
Netherlands. 52k gross, at 32h workweek.

I'm aware I could probably earn more, but I don't need it.
Weirdly when I visited the sign up page an email address of mine was already filled in, which freaked me out a bit. On my phone, and debugging later I couldn't see it happen again. Is that a "feature"? Made me very wary.
That is true enough. In this case, I think a useful learning outcome is that the backwards reading is, in theory and ignoring the emotional word choices, as politically extreme as the forwards reading. However, I doubt most will see it this way.
This article leaves out the full description, in a gross in justice.

She was hospitalized with "permanent bodily injury" and "vaginal lacerations," the complaint said. It said that the incident also caused her bowel to protrude "through her abdominal wall" in a hernia. [1]

This is another corporate ploy at influencing public opinion. The use of the word "Wedgie" is a disgusting misrepresentation akin to the McDonalds coffee accident that caused 3rd degree burns[2].

[1] https://www.insider.com/woman-sues-disney-claims-water-slide...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
Not familiar with his work yet, but there is some room for insight/observations below the threshold of complete explanations. The confidence into these just have to reflect that.
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
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Email: nickburmi@gmail.com

Hi all, my name is Nikita. I am experienced software engineer with 5+ years of expertise in Golang and a strong background in cloud computing, microservices architecture, and database management. Also know some frontend development.
You should read some history.
Frankly, if you are a (minor) celebrity, public interactions and the drive to be known for something is an essential part of your trade. I totally lack empathy for these people getting some pushback. Do we now have to have pity for attention-hungry individuals which receive a substantial amount of their income from being public? After all, they exposed themselves to feedback deliberately. I really dont have to love everyone, and if they barf their opinion onto my face, I feel entitled to tell 'em that I think they are full of ....
I mean NOSQL was hype with no substance but "you can scale more if you deal with not having ACID" is just generally true.

Of course ACID scales to well into the Fortune 500 scale so...
Before Steve Jobs was selling iPods and iPhones he was selling the ability to run your VisiCalc spreadsheet on an Apple II
It's been a tough 10 years
Sounds cool.

I don't mean necessarily 'The Microsoft Version'(tm), but rather the general notion of natural language interfacing with applications.
Don’t connect to a network, then you get the option to setup a local account
South African crypto exchange VALR set to expand into Dubai
And can they?
I think I kinda like where this is headed --- and I generally consider myself to be an AI skeptic.

This is not Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) taking control of society and destroying humanity --- which is pure BS at this point --- kinda like full self driving autos or living on Mars.

This is AI and language skills applied in a smaller, more limited, controlled and predictable environment --- your PC and your work place.

I think this might have some potential to change the game of computing.
Input:

// Open a MySQL connection

Copilot Output:

// Open a MySQL connection
// Open a MariaDB connection
// Open a Redis connection
// Open a Postgres connection

I tried it last month, and my impression the results were way worse than ChatGPT despite having full context of my project.
I've never used it, Lotus Improv seems like it was awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3M (plus the 80s–90s vibes of this video are simply incredible)

I think there's still a ton of room for spreadsheet tech to evolve, but nobody seems to really be trying anymore, because Excel is the Gold Standard that everyone seems comfortable with.

for example: why do neither of the mainstream spreadsheet apps (Excel, Google Sheets) have first-class support for row and column headers? seems like an absolute no-brainer to me, and everyone who has worked in spreadsheets for more than thirty minutes.
There was this gimmick many years ago of a computer driving licence.

An Excel driving licence, mandatory for most white collar work, would be no bad thing.
A lot of dumbasses are using the "Copilot" name long after GitHub introduced theirs. Not sure if they're just lazy and unoriginal, or if it's specially intended to cause confusion and get a jump start on publicity.
It’s a pretty useful tool for teams. Definitely works as it should.
Imagine getting mad at an inanimate object.
It's priced in the $14.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Japan have nuclear weapons?
Has anyone actually been fired for not returning to office, after applying for home office, or is this only a threat?
These tools can be great for discovery and speed up one's learning curve but there is no replacement for knowing your tools if you're going to master your craft.

In a way, after you devote many years of your life mastering your toolset, you become a very efficient intelligent machine.

But you do also so make mistakes and you also are told to do things by somebody else who guess what didn't spend their life mastering the skills you mastered (otherwise they wouldn't be paying for your services).

From their point of view, you're also some kind of opaque machine that can be trusted to some extent but must be double-checked too. You also can rat them out if they ask you silly things and you also expect to be treated decently as a human being and that's not something many other humans know how to do well.

Unsurprisingly many people cherish the possibility of having to talk to a non-human entity and let them do some tasks they wouldn't know how to even approach. Especially if this entity can be pestered with questions without ever being annoyed.

It's all about POV