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Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:06AM (#49626849)
I disagree. The strategy was unclear until now. Spending billions on acquisitions and targeted hires, clearing ranks, playing catch-up on coding and multimodal, open sourcing weak models, the AI girlfriends. It was all very confusing.

It is clear now. Alex and co have refocused Meta on Personal AGI or pAGI. The AI that runs your life. It feels appropriate for a social media company that hosts your photos and group chats. Most users will not pay for pAGI so the tokens need to be cheap. Muse is targeted at intelligence per dollar. Many sites do not offer API access. The marketing is focused on computer usage. Installing software adds friction. It runs securely in the cloud. If this isn't the right AI play for Meta then I don't know what would be.

I would bet the senior researchers know exactly how and where to get plenty of tokens.
Re:How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:43AM (#34063268)
For what it's worth, the company offers pricing tiers for secure facility vs crowdsourcing and customers get to choose.
That's true, the pull request diff viewer does not make viewing file renaming very clear and there could be conflicts.

On the other hand, what I see in practice is adding or removing context providers and layout components in the react router file, it becomes huge, and all the diffs change all of the lines with new indentation.

It seems like a path prefix like "/en/books" or "/es/books" could be supported with a base url config.

Localized path segments like "/books" or "/libros" could be supported with a path segment mapping configuration.

It should work fine in theory. I guess those configs don't exist yet. Or is there something else that route localization requires?

Oh interesting. Why not? Directory and file based routing is my favorite feature of Next.js, Remix, and other frameworks that do it.
GitHub for X. Construction is taken [1]. UI/Product is taken [2]. I'm sure there are more document types.

[1]: https://www.plangrid.com/ [2]: https://zeplin.io/

You should reach out to Ryan at Esthetic label.
Re:Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @10:51AM (#14545151)
It clicked for me after reading Joe Celko books: https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celko/e/B000ARBFVQ
I know a guy in Toronto who used to offer loans from the Caymans to Chinese CEOs secured by 2x stock. If they default, he keeps the stock. So they take out a massive loan then immediately default. He sells at market, anything above half is profit. $100Ms.
Re:We Can Do Better on Monday April 24, 2017 @11:01AM (#14184811)
I don't get it either. Google reads your email to serve better ads. You grant unroll.me access to filter marketing campaigns. Now they read your email too. Selling anonymous purchase info is pretty benign given the amount of access.
Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:01PM (#14160300)
I read architecture.md in the runtime package and it looks perfect for binding websocket updates into components. I was really hoping for the following example:

* create a stand-alone relay store

* query and subscribe to changes, print to console

* imperatively push updated records into store

* see updated data in console

I assume this is possible, but maybe it's not? Or you need a graphql server or container component?

I can think of a few more reasons beyond rescue.

- It's easier to find a significant other with whom to produce offspring if you exhibit kindness and charity to others.

- Generosity is often reciprocated.

- Giving implies EQ so altruistic person also likely takes care of family.

That's the issue with statistical models with finite decisions and states, they don't include enough parameters and interactions to capture anything relating to real life.

Like imagine a prehistoric human feeds a weak stranger, later that month the stranger warns them of danger. It's so obvious how kindness could be beneficial gene.

Re:Announcing TypeScript 2.1 on Friday December 16, 2016 @02:51PM (#13196180)
Yeah but assigning doesn't really work for nested classes.

    class Post {
       id: string;
       user: User;  // <- should be typeof User
    }
I was hoping for something like Golang json.Unmarshal.
For any parents out there: Please think long and hard before getting your kid prescribed. Get 2nd opinions, try nature or counselling, reflect if it's actually you who is the instigator. If you do go that route, know that your kid might not make it to 18, and if they do, might resent you deeply.

When experts in the same field looking at the same case can't agree even a little bit on best course of action, maybe it's not really science.

Check out Sendy - https://sendy.co/
Which industry is that? :)
Re:Jest – Painless JavaScript Testing on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:28AM (#13130855)
I was using that too, and switched over to Jest + Chai Assert. It was too difficult for me to replicate features like file watching, run only tests with changes for faster feedback loop, transpiling typescript and es6 in the same project, asset mocking, starting and stopping timers, etc. I only really used sinon.spy() so traded it for jest.fn().
Re:Jest – Painless JavaScript Testing on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:22AM (#13130808)
RE: 2. Jest bundles Jasmine. It's primarily a test runner (like karma[1]) more than a framework. Jest includes mocking capabilities at the function level (like sinon[2]) and module level (like rewire[3]). It supports parallel execution, custom source code transpiling, file extension mocks (for webpack requires) and file watching. It favors large ES6 projects -- takes a second to start up.

[1]: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma [2]: http://sinonjs.org/ [3]: https://github.com/jhnns/rewire

Re:Announcing TypeScript 2.1 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:27PM (#13124844)
The easier imports solves my biggest issue with migrating an existing project over. I'd say TypeScript is "ready" now.

The last feature I'd want is an easy way to map nested json into classes rather than interfaces. Anyone know how?

Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:34PM (#12736134)
Take a look at: Shopify, Wattpad, Pager Duty, Uken Games, Opencare, Quandl, The Score (ESPN), Wealthsimple, Top Hat, Event Mobi.
I moved to Toronto from Seattle.

If you value street fashion, nightlife, music, no driving, etc then the bay area isn't very appealing. I wouldn't move back west until I'm married with kids.

I'm 22, rent a huge apt with two friends for ~$900/m each, live on the main subway line (15 min to work). I couldn't spend more than $4k/m if I tried (bought a roomba, tom ford shades, eat steak and berries).

Some toronto companies I admire:

- https://www.wealthsimple.com/ - http://www.uken.com/ - https://shoeboxapp.com/ - https://www.opencare.com/ - https://tophat.com/ - https://www.pagerduty.com/ - http://www.eventmobi.com/

Re:Program your next server in Go on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:04PM (#11858730)
Yes. I check my vendor into git, so it's as deterministic as source code.
Re:How Not to Explain Success on Monday May 30, 2016 @01:04PM (#11802132)
I don't have data, only personal experience. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerted_cultivation

Malcolm Gladwell writes about this too, in Outliers [1] (chapters 3 and 4). His aim was to dispel the myth that success derives from intelligence.

[1]: https://www.amazon.ca/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwel...

Re:How Not to Explain Success on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:58AM (#11799975)
I would agree it's not income. That's just correlation.

It's whether your parents taught you to read by age 5, cooked vegetables for dinner, encouraged you to play an instrument, drove you to tournaments on weekends, picked a neighbourhood with an IB program even if that means no yard, paid for braces, etc etc.

Patents with low income can choose to do formative things, with personal sacrifice.

Anecdotally, social mobility happens when your parents choose to prioritize you, and you also somehow get introduced to the good life and determine to 'make it' at whatever cost.

Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:57PM (#11725899)
I've had only good experiences with firebase. They added an HTTP api, web hosting, multiple security rule preprocessors (pain point), and got faster and cheaper. Yeah only good things.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015) on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:26PM (#10659980)
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