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The World’s Great Photographers, Many Stuck Inside, Have Snapped

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Pretty sure most of them can still go outside. Most of the quarantine focus is on being alone moreso than being indoors.

Not true. It is really difficult to go outside and not touch any surface that might have been touched by somebody else. Opening doors, operating lift, sitting on a bench, all those things might get you infected. If you are infected you might, unknowingly, infect all those surfaces and transfer the virus to many other people.

More importantly, restrictions (at least here in Poland) are aimed at people who are careless and who need to be forced to stay at home. There is huge portion of population that thinks the entire thing is a hoax or that it does not really concern them because they are relatively healthy. Their selfishness lies in that they don't care they will take part in spreading the disease to people who, due to huge number of sick people, will have very little chance of getting help.

It seems only when the streets are clear it is possible to catch and confine those careless people.

Just read up on how people in Italy or Spain are dying, slowly suffocating, you might change your attitude.

Too bad it's all on Instagram, they were a terrible venue for high quality photography to begin with and now don't even show anything beyond a thumbnail without logging in.

Even logged in looking at photos on a PC is utterly horrible, especially on a monitor with higher than HD resolution.

yeah that's the "terrible to begin with" part

even the "full" sized images are filled with compression artifacts and lose lots of quality after upload, not as badly as in facebook but still surprising and disappointing for a photo-centric app. i've tried a number of things to improve final quality but nothing worked well. if anyone has tips please share them!

It makes sense given the volumes of photos and bandwidth they have to deal with, but if they cared about visual quality they'd let users tradeoff number of daily uploads for higher quality/resolution but the know the vast majority views it on phones and couldn't care less.

There are probably UI patterns that could help balance the technical challenges bandwidth with the utility of high resolution images. Wikipedia for instance defaults to low resolution images but in 1-2 clicks you can access a high resolution view. This restricts the need to serve high resolution images to only the people who really do care about it.

It's not just bandwidth, it's also storage at instagram scale, but mostly because neither instagram nor the vast majority of their users find much utility in high resolution.

Bibliogram (similar to nitter.net for twitter and invidio.us for youtube) can help with some issues, mainly seeing pics fully without logging in. https://github.com/cloudrac3r/bibliogram There are a few instances up, and you can host your own as well.

I get a "this server is blocked by instagram" message on https://bibliogram.art

"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

Looking over the comments in this thread, I'm left wondering what we should do if this were to ever become reality.

Hope dang realizes early enough to do something about it. Most of the puns I see on hn are heavily downvoted though, at least.

Yes, I think there is a tidal pattern here, waxing and waning.

With the shutdown, netizens are seeking new places to engage.

In some threads, an unpleasant critical mass is reached. Signaling [to other users, not just to Dang] on the issue can be helpful, I'd like to do this while respecting the spirit of the rules.

Edit: Maybe I can quote the "substantive" guideline and flag the comment, but this might make me technically a hypocrite. I don't have a problem with a silly pun or response, but the culture of pun threads is cancer imo.

https://archive.is/qG0hS

Title says ‘snapped’, yet the content in the article is artists that are coping and optimistic and reflecting on the interestingness of the situation, and how the meaning of photographs are changing because of it. Seems like the title was designed to be overly dramatic.

It is probably a pun the author could not resist. Dramatic? Perhaps. Amusing? Definitely.

Should have gone with:

The World’s Great Photographers, Many Shuttered Inside, Snap

It's really sad to see them lose their composition like this.

well framed

Staying focused.

Avoidance of Interpersonal Exposure Reveals What Great Photographers Are Really Like

[Partially-obsolete joke]

*sense of proportion

FTFY

It's a photography pun. The whole thread is photography puns.

Just as well they seem to have stopped down pretty quick. I don't think there's enough depth of field to really capture the subject.

Developing this thread is just panning for a negative reaction. Even low-key jokes are frowned upon on HN.

F-stop it.

Stopped down, nice!

What and mine ain’t?

Damnit, now I know I’ve been inside reading bad news too long. I just told my wife this pun that I failed to get, and she is literally rolling on the floor laughing at me.

Literally literally, or just lol?

I literally fight this battle with my kid every day. That word is the new "like".

FWIW, literally has been used to mean figurative emphasis for over 200 years... I used to correct my kids too, but then realized that all my ideas about common grammar mistakes are wrong. ‘Myriad of’ isn’t incorrect, the word myriad began as a noun, just like dyad or triad. ‘I am good’ is a perfectly fine way to respond to ‘how are you?’ There’s nothing wrong with verbing nouns, etc., etc.. It seems like it has become fashionable to write blogs posts complaining about other people’s grammar mistakes. (Though, maybe articles whinging about bad grammar is a past-time as old as dirt...) I’ve stopped believing any grammar complaints because there’s a lot of misinformation. Plus, the cool thing about language is that it changes. Something being used incorrectly by the majority of a population makes it de-facto correct. Anyway, you gotta sit back and enjoy the word fads that kids go through. They do grow out of weird word habits that seem annoying all by themselves. They just say certain words a lot because all their friends are saying them too, so there’s no way us parents scolding them for it will convince them it’s uncool; it’ll just make them think their parents are old... which we are. ;)

I might in danger of failing to get another joke here, but she was lying on the floor while I was typing that, so yes literally literally.

I feel more and more that newspapers should avoid all kinds of figurative language and express all in the most functional plain language.

Reading hacker news has made me think the same thing. I'm not sure why people seem to have no problem with being bated and lied to to get their attention.

I mention this correction only because it remains surprisingly significant in todays world: Most new authors have zero influence on the headlines. This is (partly) why you see so many headlines that are clearly contradicted by the associated article.

It's a play on words, "snap" also meaning, "to take a photograph."

Mediocre work, lame headline.

I'm sure you've done better.

Slightly off topic, but does anyone else think it would be nice to have a policy against linking websites with aggressive/obnoxious paywalls?

The answer to DAE questions is always yes, regardless of the question.

I think it’s a bad idea - there’s no need to ban discussion of an article because not everyone can read it.

Especially when paywalls aren't really hard to bypass. Usually any thread involving a paywalled article will include an archive link.

For example: https://archive.is/qG0hS

According to the FAQs, articles that not everyone can read are banned from HN.

However, that doesn't include articles on NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post, Economist etc, because those sites' paywalls can be bypassed easily using something like https://archive.md.

If you want to read their articles so bad, what stops you from paying for NYT?

Maybe it's not the article itself, but they want everyone to be able to take part in the discussion.

I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to want, especially on a site that values open and public discussions.

You make it sound like reading the article is a requirement to be able to comment.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Section "Are paywalls ok?"

My understanding is that paywalled articles should be bypassable. It's okay to ask how to bypass it, but not to [hypothetically] complain about the need to bypass it.

"Simplified view" in Brave bypasses the paywall. I assume "reader view" in Firefox does the same.

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