They write: "Below, we show uncut videos of runs during which Dreamer collected diamonds."
... but the first video only shows the player character digging downwards without using any tools and eventually dying in lava. What?
Readit Newsjonathanyc commented on DeepMind program finds diamonds in Minecraft without being taught nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/Bender
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> Social media is like fentanyl or cocaine for the masses… Ive seen people unable to get out of instagram. Their fingers are constantly twitching and scrolling. This is just like drugs and controlled substances.
Flying is such a wild experience as you can always see the person in front of you constantly scrolling. One time I saw a young gal pay $20 for internet on a 3 hour flight and would scroll Facebook for a minute or two, switch to Instagram for a minute or two, then back to Facebook… for 4 straight hours (boarding + flight + landing). I was genuinely appalled.
I've been the same thing now that I look for it. In a theater in December I saw at least 2 people scrolling through Google or Apple News. In the plane I saw at least 3 people on TikTok. On roadtrips people scroll through Reddit when there is a lull in the conversation.
I don't think it's necessarily worse than people reading a book! But it is certainly widespread.
> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs.
I considered using a Fly GPU instance for a project and went with Hetzner instead. Fly.io’s GPU offering was just way too expensive to use for inference.
jonathanyc commented on Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket defn.io/2024/11/16/podcat... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
That's right, the UI and the Audio Engine bits are in Swift, because it's easier to interface with those Frameworks directly from Swift (and not fight the platform). Everything else (the Database management & the models, the download manager, ID3 parsing, parsing release notes, syncing with the backend server, etc.) is implemented in Racket and is portable.
Thanks for the reply! That makes a lot of sense.
jonathanyc commented on Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket defn.io/2024/11/16/podcat... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
The app looks really good! Based on the title I thought it’d be something you made most as a testbed for Racket so I was surprised to see the app itself actually looks great :D
I tried looking through your blog but couldn’t find anything except the 40 minute YouTube video for your other app. It sounds like both the UI and the audio-related code are in Swift? What code ends up actually being in Racket then?
The vast majority of the scam or spam texts I receive come from one provider: Bandwidth (https://www.bandwidth.com/). They technically allow you to report phone numbers (https://www.bandwidth.com/legal/report-a-phone-number/) but most of the time they close my requests claiming that even though the user is obviously running a pig butchering scam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam), they haven't said anything that is technically illegal yet.
Once I reported some obviously fake collections calls; they kept calling me and saying that I needed to respond to a "pending matter" otherwise it would be "escalated." Bandwidth claimed this wasn't abuse and was a legitimate collections business.
To me they're just a nuisance, but the elderly and other vulnerable people have lost their entire retirement savings to these kinds of scams (https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-a-pig-butchering-sc...). It's not good that Bandwidth is abetting this.
It is said that Julius Caesar borrowed so much money to become elected pontifex maximus that he essentially forced his creditors to support his political ambitions in the hope of seeing some payment on the debts.
So, essentially, ‘twas ever so.
While studying anthropology I briefly heard about the theory that in monarchies the support of the nobility should be conceived of as an investment. It really stuck with me.
jonathanyc commented on Stabilise Video Using FFmpeg blog.pesky.moe/posts/2024... · Posted by u/speckx
I actually had no idea FFmpeg could do this.
Are there any sample videos for people to look at? I know YouTube has a very aggressive video stabilization option, but I'm sure that that's using something more complicated than what FFmpeg is doing.
Does FFmpeg implement this using the existing motion coding mechanisms?
> Habeas would license short haikus to companies to embed in email headers. They would then aggressively sue anyone who reproduced their poetry without a license. The idea was you can safely deliver any email with their header, because it was too legally risky to use it in spam.
Kind of a tangent but learning about this was so fun. I guess it's ultimately a hack for there not being another legally enforceable way to punish people for claiming "this email is not spam"?
IANAL so what I'm saying is almost certainly nonsense. But it seems weird that the MIT license has to explicitly say that the licensed software comes with no warranty that it works, but that emails don't have to come with a warranty that they are not spam! Maybe it's hard to define what makes an email spam, but surely it is also hard to define what it means for software to work. Although I suppose spam never e.g. breaks your centrifuge.