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by danso 3y ago
It’s a service worth $40 billion, with a community of tens of millions of daily users. Even if it’s in a downward spiral, I don’t think anything of its size will just quickly die.
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by danso 4y ago
Their business model isn't based on website CPM, but on producing "impact" that gets them recognition and appreciation. Their recent stories on Clarence Thomas [0] dominated the news cycle last week. Even if the website story
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by danso 4y ago
Unlike many news orgs, ProPublica's funding has managed to stay solid during the post-President Trump years — $60M according to their 2021 990, vs. $51M in 2019. I worked there in its first years, when nearly its entire $10M budget cam
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by danso 4y ago
Well the future of cost-cutting BuzzFeed overall is far from solid: https://futurism.com/buzzfeed-publishing-articles-by-ai > Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its
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by danso 4y ago
Buzzfeed is already using GPT to generate listicles and quizzes: https://futurism.com/buzzfeed-publishing-articles-by-ai This announcement is about Buzzfeed News, the investigative division which was already facing cuts las
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by danso 4y ago
Looks like this is the last time I’ll have to point out on HN that BuzzFeed News was the “serious news” side of BuzzFeed, not the main listicle side of the business. They won a Pulitzer in 2021 for International Reporting, and 2 Polk Awards
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My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum(wired.com)
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by danso 4y ago
When I was robbed my attacker demanded my passcode at gunpoint, which he then used to unlock my phone and (as far as I could tell) to just watch Netflix. This was years ago, well before the passcode — and Find my iPhone, i.e. the ability to
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by danso 4y ago
That seems like it should be enough protection. The goal of most thieves is to drain your bank account/Apple Pay. Changing your account password gives them more time to take advantage of your account, but most of them aren't inter
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by danso 4y ago
Hopefully I can convince my pdf to convert to excel
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by danso 4y ago
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opinion/heart-transplant-...
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My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon(nytimes.com)
3 points by danso 4y ago|1 comments
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by danso 4y ago
> the photo is a medium of expression which is not that different from writing something. Yes, of course photography is an expression for the reasons you mention. When I see a documentary photograph, I know it's not the "whol
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by danso 4y ago
I tried to and thought I had linked to the comment. I did wonder if the link went only to the thread, but the Reddit mobile web interface is so broken that I couldn't tell where the link was going to, though I figured the Aztec monk bu
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by danso 4y ago
A renowned documentary photographer (e.g. worked for Magnum) I've greatly respected recently announced a NFT project consisting of AI-generated photos on the topic of Cuban refugees [0] > IMAGERY IS NOT REAL > 90 Miles is a po
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by danso 4y ago
Non-paywall link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/04/15/school-c...
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by danso 4y ago
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leak... Main reporter tweeted: > (Found him through his Steam profile, will write a step-by-step on the process at some point
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by danso 4y ago
Here's a 1977 NYT story [0] during a time in which there were many more murders and the stranger-rate nationwide was estimated at 20%: - 1,622 homicides - 1,246 where (known vs. stranger) relationships were established - 354 of that 1,
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by danso 4y ago
The SF-is-a-hellhole narrative is compelling, but the report that Lee was not the victim of a random crime shouldn't have been surprising. The FBI says 40+% of murders are committed by a family member or acquaintance, and 10% by total
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by danso 4y ago
People were so quick to assume the nature of the crime even when no info about a possible suspect had been publicly released. Check the quote tweets to Bob's 2019 tweet about "recognize that your black friends face challenges you
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LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account(wired.com)
2 points by danso 4y ago|3 comments
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Aztec monks with 1/55 HP no longer die when picking up or dropping a relic(reddit.com)
525 points by danso 4y ago|208 comments
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The Case of the Fake Sherlock(nymag.com)
96 points by danso 4y ago|43 comments
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by danso 4y ago
If anything, this article exemplifies how much of a seismic change that GPT has wrought on our current tech scape. Everything mentioned feels utterly mundane by comparison, and yet are also what I imagined in 2021 what we’d be talking about
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by danso 4y ago
Replicators seem to have developed well after — and probably as a result of — warp travel
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by danso 4y ago
Fwiw that tax sim is a joke project done by a well known art collective https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCHF
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FTX stored private keys to crypto assets in plaintext, without access controls(twitter.com)
399 points by danso 4y ago|210 comments
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Twitter Circle tweets are not that private anymore(techcrunch.com)
50 points by danso 4y ago|4 comments
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by danso 4y ago
> Tesla staffed its San Mateo office with mostly young workers, in their 20s and early 30s, who brought with them a culture that prized entertaining memes and viral online content. Former staffers described a free-wheeling atmosphere in
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by danso 4y ago
Tangential note: it’s interesting that a bunch of the included photographic evidence was apparently posted to social media, e.g: > Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, front left, with Harlan Crow, back right, and others in Flores, Indo

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