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Ask HN: Any truly multi-modal transformer architectures?
Most of the multi-modal architectures consume images as tokens in same dimension. Any architectures which look at text and images as first class citizens and also produce image tokens interleaved with text?
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What exactly did you find so much worse in windows?
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They are currently attempting to essentially be annexed by the small community of Suisun City in exchange for being allowed to develop the land according to their vision.
> they write as if being overwhelmed 3% of the time is a victory

We’re talking about a soldier. Commanding a company’s worth of firepower single-handedly from relative safety. 3% would be an exceptional improvement over the status quo.
The fact that there’s a specific law called the Impoundment Control Act where the specific actions Trump is trying were made illegal should give you a hint to which way the court cases are going to go..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Imp...
> A person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.

I am starting to think that corruptible admin officials are doing this to benefit foreign actors, for what should be an amazing sum.
> I believe history has shown that you cannot, and then it has re-run this experiment multiple times, and always ended up with the same result.

You seem to think I am a communist simply for thinking that profit seeking should be regulated by the government and that government functions should not be in the hands of corporations.

I never once said that corporations should not exist, ot that all profit-seeking activity should be forbidden. You just presumed that, because you hold fairly extremes points of view.

The fact that you don't see how extreme your point of view is turns this conversation in an exercise in frustration. Oh well.
I take it you invented some baseless conjecture. As a casual suggestion try searching the web for "mouth versus nose breathing" and see what the results say.

One of my biggest complaints about software developers is that so many claim to be engineers, but instead of measuring things (which is what engineers do) so many invent their own conclusions that tend to be wrong almost every time. It's disappointing.
Let me guess - all weather prediction workloads now have to run on some Tesla cluster?
It's online dating. Most of the women in the pool are either using it out of boredom or are dating non-monogamously, and that doesn't work out for most guys.

I think a lot of women use it as a hookup app but women often take their time and are more cautious when trying to hook up.

Women who aren't just looking for a hook-up often filter out because they meet a lot of guys who just want that.
Turns out asset-light GenZ likes Trump quite a bit: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-genz-p...
This is a common error, if not outright fallacy. The correct amount of <negative event> is rarely zero due to diminishing returns -- it is where the cost curves intersect.

E.g. to decrease 3pct to 0.3pct might require operating only half the drones -- not a good trade.
Even though Russia and China own Elon and Trump, they should be against this. Every country, including them, relies on NOAA's weather data. I imagine the end result of this is Elon being granted a contract to provide weather data through his infrastructure much like this Sovereign Wealth Fund will be used to invest in Trump-allied companies. The entire thing is a big shakedown.
Mist!
As someone who works on both I don't notice a difference. Mac sucks just as much as Windows (or visa versa). There's things each does better and things each does worse.
When i type on iMessages, any time the message gets longer than ~8 sentences, ie... a mildly long message, it starts to lag extremely bad, where 1 keystroke has like a 250ms delay. it gets worse the more characters get added on

ive tried every single fix i can find, from turning off AI to predictive text. nothing fixes it. so many other people have this issue... it is absolutely insane a messaging app cannot message
High tax and high public spending.

Government spending was a slightly lower percentage of GDP than today (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S), and a whole lot of that was defense (https://econofact.org/u-s-defense-spending-in-historical-and...).

The 50s were great, let’s do that again.

Assuming you're not a non-white person, or a woman who wants a career. Although getting rid of Medicare would certainly help the budget.
Another chance to drop this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20180719170411/https://www.gamas...
> Including women who select a partner.

What does this even mean? That women don't select for the traits common people are taught (kindness, generosity, grit, honesty)?
Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back
Scrubbed, for a day at least if not more.
I like that! Seems very reasonable and fun too.

Any downsides?
Windows is great. Windows laptops are universally garbage.
Well if anything is true about Musk and his servant Trump, it is corruption and sending Federal Dollars to the top 1% is more important than people's lives.
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One doesn't get credit at a tech company for fixing a bug, but for introducing a Process that would prevent all such bugs forever. Or at least until the promotion goes through.
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I know the feeling. I'm forced to use a Mac laptop for work, and it's really made me appreciate Linux.
If they run. Might be on the resources of some other Mar-a-Lago supplicant. Or they just won't be run.
I haven’t watched this talk, but I worked on Fuchsia from the start (I’m no longer at Google) and want to clear up some common questions and misconceptions:

1. Fuchsia is a general-purpose operating system built to support Google’s consumer hardware.

2. It’s not designed to compete with or replace Android. Its goal is to replace Linux, which Android is built on. One big challenge it addresses is Linux’s driver problem. If Fuchsia succeeds, Android apps could run on it.

Fuchsia isn’t trying to replace Android. Its survival for over a decade—through layoffs and with hundreds still working on it—says a lot.

I can’t predict Fuchsia’s future, but it’s already running on millions of devices. The git logs show big strides in running Linux programs on Fuchsia without recompilation, as well as progress on the Android runtime. The best way to predict Fuchsia’s future is to look at its hardware architecture support and which runtime is getting attention.

Fuchsia’s success will likely depend more on market forces than on technical innovation. Linux is “good enough” for most needs, and its issues may not justify switching. The choice between sticking with Linux or moving to Fuchsia often favors Linux.

Still, I hope Fuchsia succeeds.
There were 25 changes updated on the Fuchsia Gerrit in the last 15 minutes. It is much less dead than 99% of open source software projects.
To pile on, though can't repo on demand, sometime in January, Airplay between Mac and AppleTV just started randomly disconnecting.
This is about privatization of weather data, unsurpisingingly.

There has been a big industry push to lobby noaa out of existance, cause LEO satellite networks can sell lots more data if there's no noaa service.

Also - main customers are insurance providers, who need accurate forecasting for rate setting.

Edit for sources:
Federal Budget Cuts and Restructuring: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk under the Trump administration, has initiated significant budget reductions and workforce downsizing across federal agencies, including NOAA. Reports indicate plans to cut approximately 50% of NOAA's workforce and reduce its budget by 30%, raising concerns about the potential privatization of weather services and the impact on public safety during extreme weather events. [1]

Project 2025 Initiative: The conservative policy blueprint known as Project 2025 proposes dismantling key components of NOAA, including the National Weather Service (NWS), and suggests privatizing weather forecasting services. Critics argue that such measures could undermine public access to essential weather data, leading to increased risks during natural disasters. [2,3,4]

AccuWeather's Lobbying Activities: AccuWeather has been reported to actively lobby for the privatization of weather services, aiming to limit public access to free NOAA data. Discussions highlight concerns that such privatization efforts could restrict the availability of critical weather information to the public. [4]

As a side note - I interviewed at a good number of weather satellite companies before my current role - it was a stated goal to "supplement noaa gaps in weather data" for "insurance & investment companies".

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-t...
[2]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-projec...
[3]https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/1e5xacu/accuweathe...
[4]https://www.theverge.com/24279329/project-2025-tech-policy-g...
Compare the median sale price of a Windows laptop vs Mac. The qualify bar should be significantly higher for anything with an Apple logo on it just to justify the price tag.
Let's see. I expect it's someone else angling for the contract.
Ah, sorry for the misinterpretation!

Also, we may have overlapped on the team :)
It’s also the worst era to play natively. Bad textures and horrible frames per second.
Last I checked that wasn't a documentary.
China / South Korea esport players will be the next super soldiers
Personally, as an outsider, losing what ChromeOS was becoming (Google's spin on desktop Linux) is the saddest part of this for me.
Cannot reproduce (15.3.1 on me3max)
Trying to reduce eWaste as well and was wondering if anybody could recommend repair meetups around NYC, maybe in Westchester?
https://archive.ph/PCuVw
Dell merged their measly 233MB keyboard driver with their display drivers. Plugging in a keyboard can automatically trigger this download.
For Azure SQL Database, you can restore any database backup to a new database, and export any existing database to bacpac format on a storage account [0]. The storage account file can be downloaded. You can also do the latter without using through the portal, using sqlpackage.exe on your local machine (same restriction applies: sqlpackage must connect to a live database, so if you want to download/view an Azure backup you must first perform a backup restore).

Not sure how to do the same for Azure Postgresql databases, but looks like standard pg_dump and pg_restore are supported.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/d...
These pages[0][1] has more details. The families had three different emblems to start. The zaibatsu came up with the now famous three diamond design in in 1873[2], but there were no trademark laws until 1884, and many companies proceeded to use the logo. The pencil company first registered this in 1903. The zaibatsu finally got to it in 1914, but the earlier filing by the pencil company was honoured.

As for the cider company, sounds like they've been selling it like it since 1913[2], but registered it in 1919? My guess is that since it was a regional product with the product type in the name that's already established (like [3]), they allowed it.

[0] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3... (translated: https://ja-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%...)
[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/jp/kenjiando/mitsubishi-pencil
[2] https://www.mitsubishi.com/ja/series/yataro/11/
[3] https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E5%9F%9F%E5%9B%A3%...
No, outside USA is ok. We only require that there be core hours of 8-12 PST.
Fuchsia may not be outright dead, but it's definitely on life support and would've been killed a long time ago if senior people at Google weren't personally backing it.
It had great foundations but without a concrete use case or product development was constantly pulled in different directions. It seemed like every year a new niche for Fuchsia was on the horizon, 6 months of development time would be dedicated to it, an extremely hacky demo would get the public hyped up, and then the whole thing would be abandoned because it didn't make any business sense.
Starnix, for example, has been completely deprecated. There was even a newer system to replace it which also got cancelled.

* My knowledge is a couple years old at this point and I haven't kept up with recent developments so maybe the future is brighter than I think.
I have a thing for writing instruments but truly love and miss using pencils ( the absence-fondness chain ... )

Very nice photos and deep dive. My kinda post
Does this work with Flutter, or does it only work with Android native apps?
It's Accuweather. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie...
Would one of you, who is familiar with this topic, help me understand the primary use case(s) along with a few words, just your overall take on these techniques?

Thanks and appreciated in advance.
Where do you think coal and oil comes from? It's ok as long as other people's environment is destroyed for non-renewable energy but not your environment for renewable energy?
That’s not too different than the old app, but instead of .app bundles, the UIs and stuff were bundled in .prefPane bundles.
That sounds prudent. There's no reason for them to continue this embarrassment of cramming the product full of worse-than-useless "AI" features. Wait until you can separate the good from the bad from the ugly and choose to just do it good.
It's not electron, but it is a WebKit view (HTML based)

So is the App store on all platforms AFAICT.
See my reply up on the original question.
I just spin up a ubuntu server vm and use it as my dev machine. VScode remote is pretty solid these days.
also pairs well with the post about mitsubishi here https://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2016/03/one-logo-three-comp...
Go recently did add a new weak pointers and string interning package to its standard library which is an interesting read.

[0] https://go.dev/blog/unique
> The new payroll taxes (unemployment insurance?) are going to bite both employers and employees alike.

Increases to employers' National Insurance contributions. It's the equivalent to Social Security in the US. Mostly goes to pensions.
I've used Downcast forever. No complaints. No idea how it compares to Overcast.
I see what you're getting at. My thoughts on that topic are... it would be really hard to make a recognizable signal that crosses a significant fraction of the universe, or even galaxy. There could be a laser-pointer-green sun on the other side of the Milky Way, but a single sunlike star is already impossible to detect on the other side of the galaxy, much less in another galaxy.

95% of the brightest stars in the sky are less than 1000ly away, while the galaxy is 100,000ly across. The ones that are over 1000ly away and still visible are extremely large, unusual stars.

R136a1 is one of the brightest stars known, at almost 5 million times the luminosity of the sun, it's just outside the Milky Way in the LMC, and it required 3.6 meter telescopes to tell that it was multiple extreme stars around a single, very extreme star. In any telescope picture where R136a1 is visible, a regular sun-like star in the vicinity would be invisible. There are no images of "normal" stars more than 1000ly away because they just combine into an ambient glow of space.

The amount of energy needed to broadcast a signal to the entire galaxy (much less universe) requires something like a supernova, which... just looks like a supernova.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R136a1
This seems to be the biggest hesitation I've heard over and over by far. There absolutely needs to be a good story here for both (a) ad-hoc cross-partition queries and (b) automatically building a datalake without having to know what ETL stands for.

However, this isn't so much different from Cassandra/DynamoDB which have a similar problem. You _can_ query cross-partition, but it's strongly discouraged and will strain any reasonably sized cluster.
Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates
If this is MFJ two similar incomes, then Social security and Medicare is another ~14% (it'll say 7.65% on the tin, but really your wage is lowered to compensate for the 7.65% employer portion, working out to about 14% total). Effective federal income tax on $300k income is 20%+, not including healthcare. State tax is another 8%..

So that's 42%, not including healthcare costs. Which is gonna be easily another 5%+.
As someone who recently walked into a Best Buy with a family member and bought a laptop, I respectfully disagree.
Hmm, I feel like you get back to "Ukraine needs everything it can get". Sure, but that's not my point.

For your wide area monitoring, you don't want your radio to be jammed because it makes it useless. So if you think about building your equipment, you'd rather build jamming-resistant radios, right?

> I argue that you can in fact have a civilian drone manufacturing which can be repurposed quickly

It could potentially be repurposed relatively quickly if it was well designed. But what tells you it will be? Most software is not very well designed, and in the western drone industry it's particularly right, in my experience. If you subsidise a company to make military drones and they write bad software, you will still end up with a military drone ("the software is bad but it lasts 25min most of the time"). If you subsidise a company to make survey drones in the hope that their design will be good enough to be quickly ported to military needs...

> both sides use civilian service for video streaming and communication which works better than anything "military grade".

I highly doubt that. Civilian radios are easily jammed.
Ahh. Indeed, thank you.

I noted that, but did not ask as you did.
>For example, sensors collected data on their heart-rate variability, posture, and even their speech rate. The data were input into an established algorithm that estimates workload levels and was used to determine when the controller was reaching a workload level that exceeded a normal range, called an “overload state.”

Based on this, I also think "overwhelmed" might be editorialized language added by the reporter.
Summarizing the last 45 days of feed reader behaviors
Just a single data point but... I am looking at replacing a custom database with SQL. The application will only ever run on one server, so Sqlite3 was a contender. The database is very read mostly, which makes it a strong contender.

The custom database is extraordinary fast at some things, so it's a complex decision. I needed benchmarks.

I chose something that mirrors how data is accessed in the custom database. The existing database does have several tables, but it's hard to use so most accesses are single table, indexed by rowid, with maybe 100,000,000 rows. So I benchmarked a single table, indexed on primary key only, 100,000,000 small rows. Since it was easy because I could use the same SQL I benchmarked both Sqlite3 and Postgresql.

I expected Sqlite3 to beat Postgresql on single row access / updates, and Postgresql3 to get the upper hand on multi row access / updates. I was surprised to see Sqlite3 was about twice as fast as Postgresql on everything, including inserting the 100,000,000 records. It was always single writer. Had I tested multiple writers I expect I would have seen really flex its muscles.

In case your wondering, the custom database is 100 to 1,000 times faster than Sqlite3 at accessing a single record. Getting that performance was achieved with some big tradeoffs, which make it so hard to code for it creates reliability problems.
Thank you for your reply. I love hearing stories like this.

I believe I will find the same eventually, it's just the search and the waiting that's running me ragged.

Happy for you, brother!
It's honestly pretty great on a desktop PC these days. Laptops are hit or miss depending on the model.
On-disk forensic artifacts are physical evidence already in the possession of Apple device owners, who can be a party to future lawsuits. Information leaks into etheric clouds are more difficult to trace.

There is substantial economic incentive to retrieve iOS forensic artifacts, which is why work to retrieve them will continue independently of Apple actions, until it becomes clearer to Apple customers how they are affected.
Haboob tears across Southwest near-zero visibility shutting down interstates
Signal famously bet the (contact discovery) farm on SGX. A controversial design decision at the time, for good reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340729
I’m a pretty big music fan and I have no idea what you’re on about. Where did you get this theory?

> The problem with real music, is that it requires a hefty amount of musicians to establish a genre.

Why is establishing genre a goal in the first place?

> This amount could be somewhere in the range of 100 to 1000 musicians.

This is demonstrably false. Genre is defined by critical consensus, and it can arise around one or a handful of bands.

> With A.I. we can resurrect dead genres

What dead genre are you after? I’d imagine there are folk styles that haven’t been kept alive, but I question whether AI recreations would satisfy anyone. I’d rather listen to authentic recordings instead. And if the genre doesn’t have a significant recorded catalog, you can’t train a generative AI to produce it anyway.
Bezos has been doing a lot of toadying the last couple of weeks, guess AWS needs more customers..