NinoScript's comments

On: How saffron became an American cash crop

[NinoScript]

Then we blindly trust that someone else is still reading the new version’s code and will raise the alarm if something bad happens.

On: Why are close elections so common?

[NinoScript]

psychohistory

[kagakuninja → NinoScript]

Where is Hari when we need him

On: Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What I...

[NinoScript]

I’d guess hardware acceleration could have something to do with it

[JyrkiAlakuijala → NinoScript]

I don't know, but my guesswork is that the DNG/ProRAW/JXL support comes with compatibility challenges. Limiting the size of the launch to well-informed photography prosumers and professionals will help to iron out the compatibility challenges — rather than make all confused consumers face these challenges at once.

I don't think that hardware support plays a role here. The fastest encoding modes of JPEG XL are ridiculously fast on software, and Apple's CPUs seem powerful enough.

[Nanopolygon → JyrkiAlakuijala]

In lossy mode I think there is no difference between AVIF, HEIC or JXL. AVIF is even a little bit ahead.

For lossless mode, JXL's fast modes (-e1 and -e2) are fast. But their compression ratio is terrible. The higher levels are not usable in a camera in terms of speed. Of course, my favorite and many people's favorite in this regard is HALIC (High Availability Lossless Image Compression). It is a speed/compression monster. The problem is that for now it is closed source and there is no Google or similar company behind it.

[jonsneyers → Nanopolygon]

Last time I tested, libjxl e1 had a better compression ratio than default libpng, while being two orders of magnitude faster. See https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front#the...

The point of reference here is not PNG but lossless JPEG, which was the best available option in DNG before version 1.7 of the DNG spec. Lossless JPEG compresses worse (but faster) than PNG.

I don't know how HALIC works but if there is no FOSS implementation available that seems like a no-go.

[lonjil → Nanopolygon]

> In lossy mode I think there is no difference between AVIF, HEIC or JXL. AVIF is even a little bit ahead.

AVIF is definitely not ahead for the high quality levels you'd use in photography. AVIF is ahead at lower quality levels.

> For lossless mode, JXL's fast modes (-e1 and -e2) are fast. But their compression ratio is terrible.

JXL lossless e1 is still a lot better than the lossless compression people tend to use for photos these days. Like Apple has been using Lossless JPEG, which sucks.

[JyrkiAlakuijala → lonjil]

Agreed. At camera quality jpeg xl is far ahead in quality. Apple's last announcement is about camera quality, close to lossless kind of lossy. In this domain jpeg xl does not have real competition. AVIF and HEIC don't even support more than 12 bits of dynamics, and become slow when quality is increased.

[ksec → lonjil]

>AVIF is definitely not ahead for the high quality levels you'd use in photography.

I read the parent's point of comparison in terms of speed, not quality.

On: Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?

[NinoScript]

Interesting take. I’d like to see such an OS, I wonder what requirements/limitations it would have.

On: Marijuana Is Too Strong Now

[NinoScript]

I just use less of it. Me and my wife consume a 0.3g dose in our vape about once a week, and that’s enough for us to relax.

On: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solv...

[NinoScript]

There’s a tile that I cannot move. It looks like 2 houses 3 trees and one well.

[yardshop → NinoScript]

You should be able to click it then click any other tile to swap their positions.

The house tiles are kind of like wildcards since their orientation doesn't seem to matter. They are useful to help flip the orientation of another piece, also with a straight-through piece who's orientation stays the same each time.

On: I learned Haskell in just 15 years

[NinoScript]

So you’re saying that it does make you 10x as productive?

On: ThankYouHN: 14 Years

[NinoScript]

I find it funny, but excellent, that this post is flagged. One of the things I love the most of HN is the ability to stay on topic. I too hope HN stays like this forever.

On: I Optimised My Game Engine Up to 12000 FPS [video]

[NinoScript]

You have developed pieces of software. You are a real developer.

On: Is C# Underhyped?

[NinoScript]

Please go take a look at Rust and/or Swift to see how nice a language without null feels like. It’s not that there’s no way to model nullability/optionality. It’s just that there’s a much better way to do it. Simple, obvious, composable, no quirks.