I built a Firefox extension to inject this sort of thing automatically, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to shill it here. It's not like I'm getting paid for it...
hey! Quick suggestion but if you create an firefox extension, please open source it. It immensely boosts my trust in an extension and I doubt that it would be considered a shill (atleast in my book) if you open source it and I don't think that you earn from the extension but if its open source and people like it, it opens up a pathway where people can donate if this extension helps their problems!
>avif is just better for typical web image quality,
What does "typical web image quality" even mean? I see lots of benchmarks with very low BPPs, like 0.5 or even lower, and that's where video-based image codecs shine.
However, I just visited CNN.com and these are the BPPs of the first 10 images my browser loaded: 1.40, 2.29, 1.88, 18.03 (PNG "CNN headlines" logo), 1.19, 2.01, 2.21, 2.32, 1.14, 2.45.
I believe people are underestimating the BPP values that are actually used on the web. I'm not saying that low-BPP images don't exist, but clearly it isn't hard to find examples of higher-quality images in the wild.
Unfortunately, LLMs empower "contributors" who can't be bothered to put in any effort and who don't care about the negative impact of their actions on the maintainers.
The open-source community, generally speaking, is a high-trust society and I'm afraid that LLM abuse may turn it into a low-trust society. The end result will be worse than the status quo for everyone involved.
Everything is collapsing toward a low-trust default. At the end of this trajectory, we rediscover that the analog world becomes valuable precisely because it can't be infinitely replicated.
Authenticity becomes the foundational currency.
But everyone must master AI tools to stay relevant. The brilliant engineer who refuses AI-generated PR by principle will get replaced. Every 18-24 months, as capabilities double, required skills shift. Specialization diminishes. Learning velocity becomes the only durable advantage. These people cannot learn new tricks.
Those who cannot question their assumptions cannot self-correct and will be replaced. The future belongs to the humble, the fluid, and the resilient. 60% of HN users is going toward a very tough time, and I am being very charitable with this assumption.
>IMO you can't tweak the TikTok/YouTube shorts format and make it a societal good all of a sudden, especially with exclusively AI content.
I agree. At best, short videos can be entertainment that destroys your attention span. Anything more is impossible. Even if there were no bad actors producing the content, you can't condense valuable information into this format.
>It's the first non opioid painkiller applicable for situations like post operative use.
Perhaps the first approved by FDA, I don't know. In many countries, metamizole is the first-line drug for postoperative pain.
(It should be noted that metamizole may very rarely cause agranulocytosis. It is suspected that the risk varies depending on the genetic makeup of the population, which would explain why it is banned in some countries but available OTC in others.)
From my limited experience of metamizole it feels a bit stronger than paracetamol/acetaminophen. Neat little drug if your genetics can take it.
Tangential: China technically banned metamizole due to the agranulocytosis scare, but somehow small clinics always have fresh stocks of this stuff. And their stocks don't look like my metamizole for horses! It's pressed out of the usual magnesium stearate instead of whatever rock-hard thing they use for animal drugs in China.
Right. We've had mass data collection tools for a long time, web trackers, CCTV, microphones etc.
But what AI brings to the table is how much easier it makes it to combine and analyse all that data, build peoples' profiles. It scales infinitely better than hiring human analysts to track someone. It's too cheap and too tempting.
It's very annoying. Put this in a search query to filter them out: -inurl:?tl=
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