skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hardly any of those studies were done when the roads were put in, or subsequently widened

Where do you get this idea? NIMBY works every bit as well on new or expanded roads, and it gets used constantly. Hell, we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars just trying to decide if we can build a new bridge, and that doesn't even involve actual planning. It's amazing we get any infrastructure projects done now given that every single person can stall them indefinitely.
Spotting Potholes–Ways San Jose Hopes to Use AI to Improve Public Services
This is a consensual hat, not a villainous hat that attacks virgin tops.
This article in Wikipedia is a good introduction to this topic. Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
If it's always a certain speed, that's pretty reasonable.

If the speed drops a lot after a certain number of bytes, calling that unlimited is deceptive. And that behavior is not unmetered either.
I think StrongForth, Cat and Kitten are all statically-typed, stack-based languages:

https://www.stephan-becher.de/strongforth/

https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language

https://kittenlang.org/
I'm no AI expert, but I think you could do that with some twine.
> Narrowing a road makes it worse for its' primary purpose.

The worst thing is, this isn’t always true. A good two lane street can have similar or better average speed than a bad four lane stroad.
If only LiveBarn feeds weren’t such a pile of crap I’d have some hope.
Like a gun?
Arguably it's the result of a market failure. I don't know many people who enjoy tipping, in which case, I'd expect a free market would eventually produce some restaurants where you don't have to tip, even if it ends up being short-lived.

Instead, rather than see some businesses experiment with eliminating tips, I see a lot of businesses that haven't historically had tips start to request them. Worse, none of them as far as I can tell have lowered prices: it's just a new cost on top, much like bullshit fees tacked on by other industries, only with a new shame component built-in if you dare express frustration at having to pay it.

It's greedy exploitation stemming from the knowledge that the "free market" rarely exerts corrective pressures as well as advertised. The invisible hand is largely invisible because it isn't there.
Funny how every social media company launches commercials saying they will cooperate with congress once they got the spotlight on this issue.

This has been a problem for decades and I personally was in denial until I realized how much anxiety, depression, etc these things added to me daily from doomscrolling. I found a new love for nature and books after taking a serious look at my own mental health as a millennial who used social media as it became big.
There's these tiny little chips of silicon ... easy to miss, real microliths.
> Got it, so an LLM only understands my words if it has full mastery of every new problem domain within a few thousand milliseconds of the first time the problem has been posed in the history of the world.

That's not what I said. Please try to have a good faith discussion. Sarcastically misrepresenting what I said does not contribute to a healthy discussion.

There have been plenty of examples of taking simple, easy, problems, and then presenting them in a novel way that doesn't occure in the training material, and having the LLM get the answer wrong.
This ignores the actual reason most people go to college: They are by and large not doing it to gain knowledge for its own sake, or to become more well rounded people. They are doing it for vocational training and/or to satisfy a credential requirement/expectation from employers.

Yes, there exist (often already very privileged) students who have no career motivation for going to school and are just going for the knowledge and culture, but the vast majority go for career reasons.
I don't think that's part of "visualization" itself. I don't visualize a scene, but I still can take a long time if it's interesting or has a lot of detail.
I remember reading the Lord of the Rings books and it has really long descriptions of the scenery and sometime it took me a very long time to read it, just so I can get all the details. In other parts I read over it as fast as I could to get on with the story.

I imagine that's the same for "both sides".
Bookmarked for future reference! Awesome work.

Furrtek has been playing with those things too.
Maybe he knows things you don't and vice versa.
https://github.com/furrtek/PrecIR
> So your approach and the author’s is to dumb a technical measure down to a level where the observer doesn’t need to understand what they are looking at.

this is precisely why i don't bother with capitalization in my sentences.

in fact even punctuation isnt necessary i dont see why i should dumb down my explanations for people who arent going to make an effort to understand them

actuallyevenspacesaresimplyredundantandasufficientlysmartreadershouldjustunderstandmymeaningwithoutmeneedingtodelineatemywordswhataretheyachildifthiswasgoodenoughfortheancientromansthenitsgoodenoughforme

hckvnvwlsrrdndntndfnynsysthrwsthnmycnclsnsthtthrbrnsrnsffcntlylrgtcmprhndmygns
It's a really random comment that isn't relevant to the parent post.

The post isn't even about image-generating AI.
Yep it’s a small minority of herbs whose effectiveness is backed up by quality studies. Modern herbalists have “debunked” some traditional remedies. Some herbs have legitimate uses but are also fairly dangerous, like lobelia. There’s a whole continuum. Flower essences are popular among legitimate herbalists, but smell bogus to me. I suggest to try for yourself and come to your own conclusions. The areas where I have found the herbs decisively effective are improving my sleep quality, quieting anxiety, and soothing and improving my digestion.
Bikes don’t kill entire families when they crash. They don’t need to follow the same rules as cars. Forcing them to follow rules meant for cars makes the roads more dangerous.
As the saying goes: it's impossible to imagine a new color.
I'm guessing we'll just end with every website has a button where you have to accept:

[ all cookies and ai stuff ]
Considering the actual complexity of rendering e.g. Urdu in decent, native-looking way you presumably do want some Turing-complete capabilities at least in some cases, cf "One handwritten Urdu newspaper, The Musalman, is still published daily in Chennai.[232] InPage, a widely used desktop publishing tool for Urdu, has over 20,000 ligatures in its Nastaʿliq computer fonts." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu#Writing_system)

Edit—the OP uses this exact use case, Urdu typesetting, to justify WASM in Harfbuzz (video around 6:00); seems like Urdu has really become the posterchild for typographic complexity these days
From what I can find there are no steady numbers. In 2023 there were 500 recorded deaths, but there's a suspicion that the numbers are higher (much as with this year). Famously in 2015 2000+ people died in a single crowd-crush event.

It's a dangerous thing, but worry not, Muslims believe that to die on Hajj is to be martyred, and sent straight to paradise, which no doubt contributes somewhat to lax safety standards.

sigh
Really, really liked it! Also, would be glad to hear where you got that helicopter heads. I've been looking for one for some time but my head is large sized so I can't find one that fits here where I live.
The title needs "2014" to be added.
Try an LLM
Traffic congestion increases nonlinearly[1]. i.e. the 10th car on a road has a smaller effect than the 100th car on the road. Accordingly, the cost of increasing a bus' size and decreasing its speed pales in comparison to the value derived by removing 5-20 cars from the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSCmQnGH9Q
See also (kinda, maybe) c-mera: https://github.com/kiselgra/c-mera
Smell is super tied to memory so that could be the cause of your imagery issues. I almost completely lose my sense of smell due to concussions in early adulthood but occasionally it randomly comes back (briefly) in full force. Anything I smell at that time triggers very visual memories in my head from childhood.
i have seen no proof of actual reasoning or intelligence
Nice start. There are some strange wordings, like "day 10 free trial". I found no mention of cost after the 10 days.
Sure. I started keeping a list of links here https://github.com/LanguageLatte/public/blob/main/SolarPunk/...
I think you might not fully grasp what happens on the scale of millions or billions of years. The entire crust folds in over itself repeatedly and everything (probabilistically) ends up boiled down into magma deep within the earth as new crust emerges to take its place. Nothing static survives.
I think that's normal. At least that's also how it works for me.
You don’t need to aim that well with a nuclear bomb.

This sort of tech could clearly be applied to the “last mile” problem in hand grenade deliveries as well, so close range jammer based solutions seem pretty hopeless (I think that’s been pretty obvious for a while, but this hobbyist project really emphasizes the fact, right?)
why do you think LLMs will achieve actual intelligence and reasoning matching that of humans?
Megalodons are estimated to have gone extinct over 3 million years ago so that's the floor for how long bone can survive in significant numbers. They were huge carnivores so even though they constantly grew new teeth, the population was never that large to begin with compared to the billions of humans alive now, all leaving their durable refuse in a single contiguous layer.

They may have been around for 1000x longer than humans but the billions and billions of tons of gold, copper, and other native metals will be obvious non-degradable remnants that will survive us for hundreds of millions of years. Any metal that can be found in its native form will survive for a very, very long time and the list of such metals is long. We already know that stone tools from archaic humans and apes easily survive for millions of years.

The Keweenaw copper deposits [1] where copper is mined in boules and nuggets far larger than a strand of copper wire is about a billion years old. That's how long our bulk metal artifacts will survive, despite rigorous geological activity. Those artifacts already number in the hundreds of billions if not trillions. The only reason they don't already litter the planet like ancient pottery and arrow heads is that they're highly recyclable and reusable.

> But I expected HN’s responses to be a touch more thought through.

We've just been talking past each other which is par for the course for HN.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_Michigan
Can you go a bit more in depth for the part regarding training the Ai to recognize the heads? Like what software(s) did you use ecc... I'm an undergrad who's seeking to do similar computer vision internships for his thesis and I find this kinda fascinating
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Fantastic, I love this kind of silly stuff. The clear next iteration is a 4-prop hat, which can be guided to the target head.

Of course, that starts to verge on what's spooky about the idea, but either way, this is really fun and cool.
He seems to be already fully booked until the 13th of August, must have been really successful, or maybe just the result of the exposure on HN? Hopefully people aren't booking spots just to troll.
Are you paying attention to the sorts of things that AI is currently being used for?

It's generating drawings and music and games and such

It's not replacing fast food service workers, or retail or farmers or plumbers. It's not replacing the shitty grunt work

It's replacing the creative, beautiful stuff

I'm not being childish. I'm simply looking at reality without my head in the sand
Also if I may recommend Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie. Excellent coffee and cakes in a gorgeous setting
So is every newspaper.
> if you copy and paste your "improved" text then it will no longer say what you thought it did

It's not a bug, it's a feature - a DRM. Your content can now be consumed, but cannot be copied or modified - all without external tools, as long as you embed that TTF somehow.

Which kind of reminds me of a PDF invoices I got from my electricity provider. It looked and printed perfectly fine, but used weird codepoint mapping which resulted in complete garbage when trying to copy any text from it. Fun times, especially when pasting account number to a banking app.
Tested. LLM response. ChatGPT at https://openai.com/chatgpt/ (whatever the default currently is)

"Great, thanks for providing the words. Here’s a paragraph and a long sentence using only the words from your list."

Paragraph:

Ellie and Gil see high hills and lush soils as they sell eggs. Bessie, Lizzie, and Billie giggle at the blissful scene, while Bob, with his big bellies, sees sole lilies by the lake. Hobbes and Zoe bless the giggles and sighs from the hill. Ellie, high on glee, sees Leslie and Ellie loose on the hill.

Long Sentence:

Ellie, Gil, and Bobbie, with their big, glib egos, hobble to the hill, see high geese and geese solos, sell blissful lilies and lilies, see his giggles and giggles, sees solos, sees shell solos, sell loose, high eggshells, sell soles, sell high heels, lose high heels, lose loose lilies, and see highs, high on high hills.

Numeric Equivalent:

Ellie (371173), Gil (617), and Bobbie (860778), with their big (618), glib (6178), egos (3760), hobble (4607713) to the hill (411), see (335) high (4614) geese (63335) and geese (63335) solos (50505), sell (7735) blissful (817557981) lilies (511173) and lilies (511173), see (335) his (517) giggles (61977619) and giggles (61977619), sees (3355) solos (50505), sees (3355) shell (53477) solos (50505), sell (7735) loose (53350), high (4614) eggshells (355435517), sell (7735) soles (50535), sell (7735) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) loose (53350) lilies (511173), and see (335) highs (46145), high (4614) on high (4614) hills (4115).

Also, fun note: ChatGPT will go into Mr. Burns mode if you emote Simpsons...
Unfortunately this doesn't answer the OP's question. OK, it may not result in better code. But in which cases, and for what reason? EDIT: And for that matter, does "not better" mean "neutral" or "actually worse"? To be clear, this is a flaw in the article, not a criticism of your response to the OP.
The difference is the recognition. If you tell me "to go right at the wall with the lion on it and left after the blue door" you're giving me an immense difficult task. If you want to totally screw me just show me pictures of the wall and the blue door, I probably be really lost.

It's not only about what is visualizable, but also what form of representation is comparable. I can read a map in a matter of seconds and find my way. I can find a car plate within my line of sight instantly. The way to the parking lot behind the <insert picture of something> and finding the blue <insert car brand> there is basically impossible for me. Of course I'm able to concentrate, but it doesn't come naturally.
> I'm just a gas sedan

We are trully living in the future. :) I heard that cars are getting smarter but you are the first i have the pleasure to chat with.

Joking asside, i don’t know if I have ever seen a more succint example of how people identify with their cars.
I just wanted to say that your post challenged (and will likely change) an assumption I've always had about restaurant owners and tipping culture. I've always just assumed, without ever having been restaurateur, that both servers and owners loved/supported the tipping status quo. Of course servers love it. But why restaurant owners? "It lets those greedy restaurant owners pay their staff less!" as the trope goes. It never really occurred to me that it's kind of a pain for you, too, and that you'd also rather just ditch it.

The thing I don't understand though is: How is tipping sneaking in to other non-restaurant businesses, if it's not really supported by the business owners? After all, they're the ones deciding to offer the option to tip.
This would be interesting, feel free to email me if you get stuck. If you had a camera at eye level, you could try to train it on recognizing the player jersey numbers.
This is one of the most beautiful things made with AI
If you’re official marketing is indistinguishable from scams, well… https://x.com/CoinStats/status/1471480253566566404
I feel like I have two visual fields. One that feels like it is through my eyes and of the outside world, and then another that has images or ideas that I can conjure up (almost like eigenfaces or other low resolution concepts). The second visual field isn't within the first, but feels like it is also roughly centered where my brain is.
This is why I don't trust my own memory as far as I can throw it (which, considering memory is an abstract concept, is not very far at all).
I think I used to be able to visualize earlier but by the time I learned about aphantasia I had already gone years without it.

Why I cannot say.

Sometimes when I get a lot of sleep and relaxation I think I can visualize in ny head.

Oh, and I can visualize at least one relative, but only a certain passport image of that person.

And I can draw to some degree, so I clearly know roughly what things look like even if I cannot visualize it internally.
that's basically what I experience. When I learned that many artists picture their entire drawing in detail, and then put it down on page roughly as they imagine it, I couldn't even imagine that.
New people get hired and want to make their mark.
Typical mid-western humor, spends almost as much time describing how to open a window as how to build an AI agent. Very fun project.
I disagree with this definition of "fundamentally different", because nothing in physics stops you from building a computer out of a billion vacuum tubes.

That's very different than requiring negative energy or something never observed.
Where is the UK financial services sector concentrated?
> on top of a base $16 minimum wage

That depends on what state you're in. The Federal minimum tipped wage is $2.13 per hour and has not increased in years. (If wages and tips, combined, don't equal the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, teh employer is supposed to make up teh differences.)

A number of states have set a different minimum tipped wage, just as they have set a different minimum wage. Seven states have the same minimum tipped and non-tipped wage. (California is $16 for both tipped and non-tipped employees.)
There are no countries where tipping is illegal. It is not a solved “problem”.

Of course, tipping isn't required anywhere, and that includes the US. If you don't want to tip... don't?
>Narrowing a road makes it worse for its' primary purpose

That's kind of the problem with urban planning in many cities in the USA -- the "primary purpose" of roads is assumed to be to serve cars, rather than to serve people.

>You would definitely not just narrow a footpath on a busy high street without considering the impact.

Happens all the time in my city for construction projects - an entire sidewalk will be shut down for years for construction, forcing pedestrians to the other side of the street (which means 2 extra waits for stop lights). Often the closed sidewalk is used for nothing at all except to hold a construction fence.. a more pedestrian friendly solution would require a covered walkway.
I wonder if the DiffServ[0] bits in IPv6 could be another way to prevent bufferbloat from affecting real-time datagrams? Or are they like IPv4's ToS[1] bits, which I think were never implemented widely (or properly) enough for any software to bother with?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated_services

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_of_service
Instant ONNX export for ML inference
It was (is again) this gas stations Costco hotdog
There's a parallel between driving behavior and internet behavior. Both isolated, inspiring recklessness.
That is one reason to use Perl I guess where you can request the feature set of a specific Perl version.
> why in the world are public safety improvements up for debate

Because of political culture and human nature; everything is driven by FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) so you can basically spin anything to scare people or to line your own pockets, living standards be damned.
From a fellow midwesterner - was this great? “You betcha!”

Finally some window shopping that interests me.
If some security policy is only required for compliance and the security team agrees, the security team should do the bare minimum and look the other way smiling when the users circumvent that policy. Same with a good legal team.
Greater London is made up of 32 London Boroughs and the City of London that provide the vast majority of municipal services. Each has a mayor or Lord Mayor. The powers and responsibilities of London Boroughs, and the local authority responsibilities of the City of London Corporation are set out in statute law, not delegated by the Mayor of London.

The Mayor of London is responsible for public transport, Fire and Rescue Services, major highways, some major town planning issues across the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London, and policing across the 32 London Boroughs. The Mayor of London has no general authority over any of the 33.
Apple M4 support added to LLVM revealing Arm ISA v9.2 base
only when someone speaks up. The worst roads are in nobodies backyard (who likes on a stroad - nobody, they all live on cul-de-sacs off the stroad)
I doubt there's much in terms of brainpower, compute or financial resources to differentiate a hedge fund and an AI research lab.
I read about three times as fast as other people. I'm still not better in absorbing the information, I also make errors and miss key points.

The difference is that a book is already in a format I don't need to convert (to images) anymore.

About the 3x: if I need to show someone something to read on a screen and need to wait to scroll to the next page, I just read it 3 times and scroll then, it normally fits a "normal" reading speed.
Being near the higher end of that age range, I distinctly remember that I stopped being a happy kid once I started using the Internet (at around age 12) even before addictive algorithmic feeds. This statistic does not surprise me in the slightest.
Secretive? As in run by Committees that meet in public with agendas and minutes published on the City's website in accordance with the Local Government Act 1972.
Show HN: I built a webhook forwarder to solve my multi-environment headaches
The most annoying thing for me while building external integrations to our product at my job has been the inability to consume callbacks & events from apps(slack, whatsApp) in multiple services at once, all of them offer a single callback and I have had to hack my way around with ngrok or ill placed code snippets to forward them to different services.
I built splithook just for that, now you can use a single webhook URL and have events pushed to it forwarded to multiple other URLs.
Here's how I use it ->
We have a WABA account/Slack account we consume events from, now these provide only one configurable callback URL. When we are developing locally, we either have to change the callback to a locally forwarded ngrok URL and then again forward it to the development environment through code or the other way around, which is unreliable, prone to errors & downtime.
Using splithook, i just plug the generated webhook into the external provider, define the target URLs I want the webhook forwarded too(in my case, local ngrok and development) and it just works, no headaches!
> The Corporation is a local council, it collects the bins and operates one primary school.

Is that all it runs?

> There's always this misconception that it's some sort of lawless wild west.

I don't view it that way.

> I assure you every company in the world would be based there!

How many financial companies in the world are based there?