Its available for me now in gemini.google.com.... but its failing so bad at accurate audio transcription.
Its transcribing the meeting but hallucinates badly... both in fast and thinking mode. Fast mode only transcribed about a fifth of the meeting before saying its done. Thinking mode completely changed the topic and made up ENTIRE conversations. Gemini 2.5 actually transcribed it decently, just occasional missteps when people talked over each other.
I think technically they can. It’s because they’re downgrading them to a free service. I’m going to venture to say that it’s a money grab on a previously generous gift by slack.
Apple claiming that Liquid Glass is a technique only Apple can achieve, will be replicated, or at least indistinguishably replicated, in pure CSS... within 48 hours of today, out of spite
Just the absence of a license generally means the creator has all right reserved by default. You don’t need a license in every file because in much of the world copyright is given by default to the creator. A licensed file is permission to do something with that copyright material.
Just be careful! In SOME jurisdictions, you can get in trouble for 'stealing' if you take back something that was stolen. Possession vs Ownership are 2 different things. For instance, the thief may have stolen something, sold it to someone who bought it in good-faith, and you take it back from that person, it's technically theft!
File a police report, go through the right channels. If you know its yours, call the police department non-emergency and explain the situation
Artificially aiming to increase natural attrition through requiring employees to make like-altering decisions (or else) is evil. At the bare minimum, it should be seen as a layoff.
It's wild to nitpick the licensing like this. I get why its conter-intuitive and in violation of Github's guidelines, but it's winamp, folk. It has no intrinsic value these days to update or fork outside of giving people the opportunity to learn from the tricks they had to do to make stuff work. There are solutions significantly better and open source today. 'Canceling' winamp in 2024 was not on my life's bucket list after the year 2000.
There is hypocrisy here around internet archive, it's totally OK to store copy-write content on the archive, but its not OK when a company does so on their own.
I think the very concept of this is to open source a common stack, instead of relying on a middleman like Porter, which also costs a TON of money at business tier
It baffles me why people would be so unnecessarily critical on someone's project they are showing off in a show-and-tell fashion. It's a neat project with value.
I'm fairly sure weather.gov's api doesn't have an SLA of any kind. I highly recommend going through the push vs polling approach if possible and store the data as it comes in live in your own DB. AWS Open Data + MADIS are good sources that are... for reasons... far more stable
EDIT: sorry, I misread your commend. If it's only once every 30 secs, that may be a bit overkill for your needs. You may be able to get the appropriate text product directly and parse it out. Unfortunately probably the most stable, yet clunkiest, way
Yeah, they did... but being blunt, IBM had 8 years to do a lot of damage. Not speaking of the engineers or the tech behind it, I'm talking about escalating the ad revenue and general junk on their website. MOST of the page load time on weather.com and AccuWeather is ad and tracking. It's an ungodly number of requests and will drain a data plan's usage limits surprisingly quickly.
Just opening weather.com will send almost 1000 requests , transfer 10.3MB. Every 30 seconds or so it will make about 300 requests + 2MB of transfer for new ads. It's... insane
It's hard to get accurate numbers as many weather sites are privately held. But to give some info:
Weather Company was sold for $2B to IBM in 2015 (and recently sold to private equity for undisclosed amount). Tomorrow.IO has a $1B+ valuation pre-IPO SPAC.
Hi, hobbyist here! This is a huge area where government meteorologists and "Big Weather" differ and you can help close that gap!
For context:
The governments of the world provides these big weather companies (weather.com (cough IBM), Accuweather (cough IBM cough), etc) a metric shit ton of their data completely for free (by law) including data transfer. These are things like radar, satellite, ground station data, forecasts, composite models, etc. These companies profit substantially on it, as in billions of dollars. You as citizens also can get this data completely for free as well! MADIS is a system the government is working on to make that data access easier by bringing together many of these systems together and removing the bureaucratic redundancy and abstracting out the aging infrastructure. This is literally terabytes of data per day you can grab with almost no questions asked. That data is then processed privately and resold and repackaged to the end user, and you probably interact with this privatized data the most.
The frustration I have much of the additional "value" these weather data brokers provide is by linking up with each other with data contracts. These private companies have a much much higher detail on the ground than the government by being able to partner with companies that make common internet-connected personal radar stations and reselling that data to each other. The government doesn't have that privilege to buy limitless data. NOAA/NWS, for example, is extremely underfunded so if they had to privilege to buy it they probably couldn't come to an agreement to buy it. As a result, they can't use that data to improve the accuracy of alerts/warnings/forcasts, the same exact tools that the big weather companies make all their money from. It's a shit cycle and totally unfair IMO.
So please contribute if you can!!
Sidebar: I'm a founder of a self-bootstrapped startup to build a better weather data broker that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. If that's something you are passionate about solving, feel free to reach out :)
This speaks on long term outlooks at synoptic scale, we really should put some energy on researching mesoscale long term outlooks, or even 4 hour short term. It's a difficult problem to solve as the variables are quite complex, but the reward can be substantial -- on-land severe weather impacts less people but often is deadlier and can cause huge financial loss in areas that may not expect it.
Its transcribing the meeting but hallucinates badly... both in fast and thinking mode. Fast mode only transcribed about a fifth of the meeting before saying its done. Thinking mode completely changed the topic and made up ENTIRE conversations. Gemini 2.5 actually transcribed it decently, just occasional missteps when people talked over each other.
I'm concerned.