This is super cool. Can you make one that does 140?
Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
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#152> The system ingests raw newspaper scans and uses a multi-step LLM pipeline to generate the daily edition This is neat! But I wonder about longevity of the project if it relies on scanning newspapers. Do you have an endless suply? Perhaps there is some digital archive you could use?
As long as news was published on this day 40 years ago, why would supply matter?
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does this do?
It gets news over RTTY (the ancient teletype, some sort of radio comms used by journalist, military and so on). Curl just downloads the HTTP stream to the standard output, as a music player would do with a online radio. The stream it's in MP3 format, so the terminal output it's piped (chained) to LAME's input. LAME it's an infamous MP3 decoder for Unix/Linux since the old Napster times. This part of the command, as y…
Neat! I decided to play around with it (mostly, to be honest, because I was curious what it sounded like) - and it's really interesting to see it stream in a few bytes at a time
Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
#154Without mentioning the source of the articles, it's completely useless. It would be hard to detect completely AI hallucinated articles, without a possibility to check the authenticity of the content.
> It would be hard to detect completely AI hallucinated articles, without a possibility to check the authenticity of the content. you can check in a public library or https://google.com
An automated system was already made to collect and sort them, that system should provide it's sources. I can self-fact-check anything, but a system that could provide origin sources and didn't is just AI slop.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reading mainstream coverage of tech is certainly what made me lose confidence in much of their other reporting. Back when tech was this niche thing 20+ years ago, media's illiteracy on the matter was forgivable. Now that it's omnipresent and represents a huge portion of the economy, not so much. Yet the accuracy of the reporting on events that I have familiarity with has barely improved.* * Acknowledging that this is…
Its the same in many areas. You have just escaped Gell-Mann amnesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect Inaccuracy is a common complaint about science reporting. If you look at how a country is reported in another country, it is often highly inaccurate. In my case its mostly been how Sri Lanka is reported in the UK, but I have also seen lots of inaccurate reporting of the UK in American media (and…
> just escaped [..]
About 20 years ago, haha, but yes. Am familiar with that term from Crichton.
> [..] UK in American media
If it's any consolation, much of the reporting I see on America in American media is also inaccurate.
> survey data
To me this is perhaps the most egregious bad faith reporting I see. The survey questions themselves are often designed in a way that will likely produce a given result, whether through malice or incompetence. Then the reporting on those results buries the actual questions asked.
I saw one recently, from the early 2000s, that said "majority of Americans cannot locate the Middle East on a map".
But the actual survey's findings were "the majority of Americans can not identify the Middle East on a map".
And what did it mean by that? It was a multiple choice question and if you failed to include the correct extent of North Africa that is regarded as the Middle East, you were considered unable to identify the Middle East.
Something like 85% correctly included Saudi Arabia.
Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
#156> The system ingests raw newspaper scans and uses a multi-step LLM pipeline to generate the daily edition Why would such a project possibly benefit for using LLMs to garble the text? Jesus christ the news are right there, just print them without rewriting them using a chatbot -.-
Wouldn't the NYT or whoever object to someone reposting their articles?
I think the NYT is involved in lawsuit claiming garbling them through an LLM is still copyright violation. In any case you could link to them and display the headline, and maybe the first sentence.
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#157“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
A great way to do this is to subscribe to a weekend edition of a good newspaper.
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#158I remember Leon going overboard. Too bad this is not adjustable, fifty years ago (the 70s) would be more interesting. Certainly a lot more bank robberies, hijackings and both domestic and international terrorism. Not to mention all the political and econ stuff.
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#159I opened this, only to be confronted by an article about the investigation into the downing of Air India flight 182, a terrorist attack that killed hundreds of people, including my childhood neighbour friends Brinda and Arti and their dad, Vishnu. Forty years. What lives they could have led, people they would have loved and been loved by. For their family, so many years of grief. Thank you for this project.
It’s especially painful to read about that again, with another horrific Air India tragedy having happened this year in India :(
RIP to all those innocent people.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it varies. I've seen everything from people simply caring about the wellbeing of Palestinian civilians to rabid Hamas supporters and everything in between. I think it's easy to get stuck in an environment where you mostly see views that align with your own or are the complete opposite (with a corresponding dunk) and it's easy to get rage baited.
There’s a lot of ideological snap-to-grid.
This is a fantastic analogy for ideological preferences.