lucasfcosta

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   Notebooks and CRDTs(briefer.cloud)

   1 points by lucasfcosta 2y ago|0 comments
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   Multiplayer Python notebooks using CRDTs(briefer.cloud)

   3 points by lucasfcosta 2y ago|0 comments
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   by lucasfcosta 2y ago

   I'm glad you're excited about Briefer! We've already seen hacky solutions starting to be replaced and that makes me quite happy.
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   by lucasfcosta 2y ago

   Unfortunately, that's not possible yet. We want to fix that, but very few people use public pages, and even fewer use public dashboards, so we didn't prioritize it. Thanks for reporting it, it helps us understand what people want!
5. 35.▲
   by lucasfcosta 2y ago

   That's a feature request we get every now and then. It's coming soon! I haven't yet had time to implement it because I was working on the core pieces of functionality, but as a dark mode user I want to get to that soon.
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   by lucasfcosta 2y ago

   Thanks for the positive feedback. It's not as much of a direct competitor because Count's approach seems more like "Miro for Data" while ours is more like "Notion for Data". Still, I do think people could end u
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   by lucasfcosta 2y ago

   At this stage, we're putting a lot of effort into "selling" the (free) community tier because (1) that leads to great feedback and (2) the vast majority of paying customers come from the free tier anyway. We want the free tie
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   by lucasfcosta 2y ago

   I strongly agree with your comment. I'm a software engineer and I was surprised to find out about the practices of some data teams. I do believe we should bring software best practices to the data world, not only regarding code design
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   by lucasfcosta 2y ago

   The data itself is indeed a problem. More than that, I'd add that the very definition of what's being measured or calculated is an even bigger problem (i.e. what's an active user?) Still, I think that we can get to a place
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    I really appreciate the positive feedback, I'm glad you like the launch. Regarding self-hosting: Yes, we have discussed that with other potential customers. If you're interested in a self-hosted offering, please reach out to me at
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Hey Jay, thanks for the question! In Briefer you can hide the blocks you don't want others to see, like the ones in which you're just manipulating data. Instead, you can show only the results so that your analysis is really easy t
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Thanks for asking. I answered that question below. You can see the response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41055495
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Thanks for asking! The products are similar in the sense that both are cloud-based notebooks, but we have different approaches to building them. I answered a question about Hex below, and the general outline applies here. To summarize: 1. W
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Thanks for reporting this issue. I’ll look into that right now.
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    In these cases it’s usually an operations-related team who is able to write queries just fine, but they don’t want to use a terminal with PSQL or have creds spread around in their own machines. The AI also helps folks do queries without hav
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Thanks for the comment! That’s possible. For it to work you’d have to create a “dropdown block” and select the “dynamic” option in its settings. Then, you will be able to select a dataframe and the column from that dataframe you want to use
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    That’s correct - it’s something you should do in Python. To pull data from the API you can use the requests package which is already within your Python environment. If you have sensitive API keys you can add them to your environment variabl
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Thanks! We do not support running notebooks locally right now, but offline access is coming soon. With regards to running code on high-end GPUs: currently, we manually allocate GPUs to our customers when they need that. Still, we do want to
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Hey Fernando, thanks for the enthusiastic comment. Would love to hear more about what you mean regarding the CLI and connectors. Can you give me a few examples of what these would look like? By the way, I didn't know Calca. Looks neat,
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Yes, that's a great question. We do a lot of things to keep the credentials safe that go beyond just putting everything behind a VPN and setting pods' SECCOMP profiles. That obviously includes encrypting credentials and putting in
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    It's up to you. So far, there seems to be an even split between the people that always go for the AI and the people that write everything themselves. Personally, I use the AI whenever I need to write anything other than `SELECT * FROM
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Can you tell me more about your specific use case? You can already call an external API from Briefer and use its response within the notebook. You could also upload any types of files and read them from disk - or even query those files usin
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Thanks for reporting these issues! I just fixed them.
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    It's funny you say that - we had users who simply wanted to run queries and didn't have direct access to a database, so they just asked someone from the technical team to connect their DB to Briefer and then they started querying
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Hey Suchintan! Great to see you here - we're happy that you've been using Briefer! Regarding your questions: 1. Briefer is definitely a Jupyter replacement and it can be a Metabase replacement. Most of our users with BI use case
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Hey Trevor, that's a great question! On a surface level, we're doing a lot of work on UX. We intend the UI to be more presentable and easier to navigate through so that technical users find it easier to use while non-technical use
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    Show HN: Briefer – Multiplayer notebooks with schedules, SQL, and built-in LLMs(briefer.cloud)

    265 points by lucasfcosta 2y ago|74 comments
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    Designing code-gen assistants for notebooks(briefer.cloud)

    2 points by lucasfcosta 2y ago|0 comments
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    by lucasfcosta 2y ago

    Honest question: does this work? It seems to me that this change will have unintended effects and will fail to produce the desired results. AFAIK rent in NYC hasn’t gone down since they changed their short-term rental regulations. I might b
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    Self-Serve Dashboards(briefer.cloud)

    2 points by lucasfcosta 2y ago|0 comments