"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
reply- Hacker News Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Such complaints are valid for AI model releases, that tells us that they are not using their own models to test their own release pages.
replyI think this speaks to the product release iself
replyIt's at least Meta-relevant. Compression Represents Intelligence Linearly (Y Huang, 2024)
replyGood catch - looks like it's a PNG image, with an alpha channel for the rounded corners, and a subtle gradient in the background. The gradient is rendered with dithering, to prevent colour banding. The dither pattern is random, which introduces lots of noise. Since noise can't be losslessly compressed, the PNG is an enormous 6.2 bits per pixel.
replyWhile working on a web-based graphics editor, I've noticed that users upload a lot of PNG assets with this problem. I've never tracked down the cause... is there a popular raster image editor which recently switched to dithered rendering of gradients?
lol it literally took me 2s to google search "optimize image for website" and 10s to upload and get a smaller sized image.
replyThe result for that specific image is: 500kb. 85% decrease in size
An indistinguishable JPG is 170KB. An SVG would be 20KB.
replyCSS with a linear gradient background would be even smaller :)
replyYou can even automatically do that on your CDN/delivery/web server layer. Or as part of your web deployment pipeline.
replyYes, but it might be a little too advance for Meta ;)
replyBut they have personal superintelligence?
replyFor me it's 213 kB. Did they replace it?
replySomeday our robot overlords will be intelligent enough to ... optimize images!
reply(But today is not that day.)
The proper optimization in this case is to not use images at all.
replyAnd it doesn't even look high-res.
replycomplaining about sand on the beach
replyI am simply offended. By Meta's lack of sensibilities (or ability) towards use of images on the Web while touting their new flavour of artificial intelligence as a product.
replyold man shouts at cloud
replymore like old man shouts at someone else's computer
replyIt's not sand on the beach, it's garbage on the beach.
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