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xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings   github.com/unicode-org/me... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
1116574 · a month ago
Looks alot like mozilla's project fluent, atleast in the basic use case.

https://projectfluent.org/

I wonder why it hasn't been adopted more widely.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu · a month ago
Here's a comparison between the two on Fluent's wiki: https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/wiki/Fluent-and-ICU-...

It seems the last edit of the page was in 2019, so I'm not sure how up to date it is.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro   twitter.com/neelsomani/st... · Posted by u/nl
xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 2 months ago
> no prior solutions found.

This is no longer true, a prior solution has just been found[1], so the LLM proof has been moved to the Section 2 of Terence Tao's wiki[2].

[1] - https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/281#post-3325

[2] - https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results    · Posted by u/jeanlucas
xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 2 months ago
>Reddit results are often force-translated instead of linking to the original English content.

It's very annoying. Put this in a search query to filter them out: -inurl:?tl=

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions   koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-bro... · Posted by u/takira
raincole · 3 months ago
Am I just paranoid or open router is the next bomb ticking to a privacy explosion? What is their business model anyway?
xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 3 months ago
>What is their business model anyway?

They take a 5.5% fee whenever you buy credits. There's also a discount for opting-in to share your prompts for training.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened   issues.chromium.org/issue... · Posted by u/markdog12
homebrewer · 4 months ago
It's not just Google, Mozilla has no desire to introduce a barely supported massive C++ decoder for marginal gains either:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

avif is just better for typical web image quality, it produces better looking images and its artifacts aren't as annoying (smoothing instead of blocking and ringing around sharp edges).

You also get it for basically free because it's just an av1 key frame. Every browser needs an av1 decoder already unless it's willing to forego users who would like to be able to watch Netflix and YouTube.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 4 months ago
>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.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on LLM policy?   github.com/opencontainers... · Posted by u/dropbox_miner
xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 4 months ago
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.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on Sora 2   openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled
jablongo · 5 months ago
Sam Altman has made (for me) encouraging statements in the past about short-form video like TikTok being the best current example of misaligned AI. While this release references policies to combat "Doomscrolling and RL-sloptimization", it's curious that OpenAI would devote resources to building a social app based on AI generated short form video, which seems to be a core problem in our world. 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. This is a disturbing development for Altman's leadership, and sort of explains what happened in 2023 when they tried to remove him... -> says one thing, does the opposite.
xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 5 months ago
>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.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on Is OOXML Artifically Complex?   hsu.cy/2025/09/is-ooxml-a... · Posted by u/firexcy
rhdunn · 6 months ago
There are places where it says the equivalent of "Works the same as Word 95" [3], but does not specify in the specification what that means.

It's essentially a serialization of the binary format to XML.

ODF 1.4 is around 1,100 pages across all 4 parts whereas OOXML is over 6,000.

[1] https://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/08/microsofts-f...

[2] https://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/2007/08/micros...

[3] https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-hire-guillaume-p...

xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 6 months ago
They improved this in later revisions of the standard. The behaviour of autoSpaceLikeWord95 is now actually described and there's an example.

You can see it for yourself here (in Part 4): https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...

xeeeeeeeeeeenu commented on The first non-opoid painkiller   worksinprogress.news/p/th... · Posted by u/ortegaygasset
ggm · 9 months ago
Colloquially acetaminophen/paracetamol and ibuprofen are "painkillers" but this is in a different class, it's amazing to have something which performs like the opioid pain relief but without at least some of the side effects.

It's the first non opioid painkiller applicable for situations like post operative use.

I'd have loved this after my hernia op, the last thing you need with that is opioid induced constipation.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 9 months ago
>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.)

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