KennyBlanken

"Companies"? A huge proportion of Openrouter tokens are coming from Hermes. That is not "companies", that is "AI bros using Hermes to do things that could be done with a dozen lines of python" and inflated by the massive overhead that is the system prompt hermes generates for each request. Even with just a few tools and skill files it can reach 20-30k tokens.

I'm not kidding when I say that if anything comes out which substantially improves Hermes token efficiency,or causes a large number of Hermes installations to fail or stop being used (like a major security vulnerability), Openrouter and some of their providers will be in trouble.

No, this isn't remotely "typical." You have no idea what you're talking about.

The building might be on a generator. The whole building is most assuredly not on UPS.

Even in hospitals only certain outlets are on UPS - the stuff that absolutely cannot be interrupted - though a lot of hospital equipment now has its own battery system, at least in part for convenience.

I don't know if it's still done but semiconductor plants used to use intertia-based grid smoothing/UPS systems to handle millisecond-level interrupts and voltage fluctuations.

> We were told the drone footage alone would be used in their decision, and we still had to replace the roof to keep coverage.

This is the point where you stop talking to the insurance company and start talking to an attorney as well as your state insurance commission.

Many progressive cities intentionally time their lights for this for two reasons. One is to intentionally limit capacity. Once a road gets past a certain density, you end up with problems that make things astronomically worse (for example: people who "block the box" and cause everything to grind to a halt.)

The second reason: trying to incentivize people onto trains, buses, bikes, foot, etc.

Cambridge, MA does this. The light are purposefully timed to not let you travel through multiple greens on the tertiary roads in particular, less so secondary, etc.

Cambridge also gives a substantial amount of time to pedestrians as part of every cycle- no "beg button", because the city does not consider someone on foot to be less deserving of crossing time - specifically to not have the car "be king". By making it relatively fast to get around on foot, they reduce the incentive to drive.

They also heavily structure the residential neighborhood streets with one-way directions designed to make it very difficult to use the streets people live on as cut-throughs when the main roads jam up because that leads to noise, pollution, and danger to people on foot and bike, particularly because the kind of person to use a neighborhood as a cut-through is likely also driving quickly and aggressively.

ASTC systems do not "dramatically reduce congestion." They result in a small (probably single digits) increase in traffic flow at best, which is a rounding error. God, I'm sick of this dude's flyover videos and him being treated like some genius.

Numerous cities don't bother with ASTC systems because they a)don't do very much yet cost a lot of money in equipment and staffing, and b)just further incentivize low occupant vehicle traffic, which is just about the lowest priority in most cities these days because that in turn creates more traffic. If there was one overarching tenet to traffic engineering and urban transportation planning, it's that you cannot solve traffic by building more roads. It doesn't work. It has never worked.

Traffic is something 99% of the population thinks they understand because they sit in it, see it, etc. and probably 95% don't have the foggiest idea how it actually works, and merely have a severely uneducated and highly biased personal opinion. And boy howdy, do they hate bike lanes and bus lanes.

Adding (or removing) a lane does not even remotely have a direct correlation to maximum traffic flow. If you have a three lane road and you make one lane a bus or bike or bus-and-bike lane, you do not lose 1/3rd the traffic flow capacity. It's dramatically less than that.

By making bus transit faster (where each bus holds ~60 people...) and biking safer, not only do you actually reduce traffic, but you also provide emergency vehicles with a faster route through traffic.

In Paris more people travel by bicycle than car. That was a direct result of Paris heavily restricting motor vehicle traffic through the center.

Every person on a bicycle is one less person causing noise, pollution, congestion, wear to the road, danger to others, and using (at least) one less parking space (because you don't just need a place to put the car where it is kept, you also need space for where it is going.)

Simcity designers initially based Simcity off actual real-world stats and planning figures. They had to throw out the figures for parking and road capacity because otherwise the game would have looked like nothing but roads and parking lots.

Zelda Williams is getting the AI videos forwarded to her by fans.

People who are Robin Williams fans aren't making AI videos of him.

The kind of people who are making videos of him are people trying to get engagement on social media.

Either building an audience to then be an "influencer", or to sell the account to a marketing firm who will then use it to kickstart an online brand.

Marketing company has a client with some stupid new kitchen gadget, so they buy a pumped up account that had Robin Williams memes intermixed with some stolen baking/cooking cartoons and memes.

It's always about money...

You've explained WHAT it could run ON. You haven't shown any examples of its intended use, from input to result. I have no idea what is expected of me to be entering into that home automation example, and as everyone has handily demonstrated, it's dogshit at what people actually try to feed it so clearly im not the only one.

I can't wait for all the usual Monsanto fanboys to start popping up with comments that show how wildly ignorant they are, with comments like "we need this tech to feed everyone!"

1)Hunger is entirely artificial and is a problem of US farm bill policy and trade policy (not to mention using food to produce fuel that provides less energy than the energy required to grow it.) We pay farmers to grow and then till the food into the ground. Or to ship it to a warehouse where it rots. Massive amounts of food are thrown away by supermarkets. The list goes on.

2)European farmers, who cannot use Roundup or a large swath of other pesticides and herbicides, *have greater per-acre productivity.

It's always funny how such a "law and order" company not only lies through their teeth but also maliciously files false police reports. As in there's literally video evidence of them calling the police and telling the police things that are not happening.

It's also really annoying me that police departments around the nation are petulantly implying they were "forced" to do this because of lawlessness and silly-villain karens...also claiming, without the press even remotely challenging them, that they're disappointed because "we believe they work."

There literally isn't a single fucking shred of evidence that Flock cameras do jack shit, that isn't from a study Flock paid for, which heavily cherry-picked communities, particularly ones with very low crime rates where a Flock camera happened to be involved and the crime rate which was already low dropped by a couple crimes a year and resulted in a "200% reduction in crime."

To save everyone a click: No cuDNN and based off an ancient version of ROCm for windows (7.1 has been out for ages, 7.2 is current.)