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Depressing.
Show HN: Not Depressing News
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Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#172Can you please, pretty please, add an RSS feed?
He is using Reddit /r/upliftingnews as source so you subscribe to;
https://www.reddit.com/r/upliftingnews.rss
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#173Putting "not" to negate a negative isn't always a great idea. "Not Depressing" still has the word depressing, versus "uplifting",pleasant or even hopeful these words will always be much better.
It’s kind of annoying that this is the top comment. “Not + [Negative Term]” has a distinctly different logical meaning than “[Positve Term]”. It means “everything except [Negative Term], while [Positive Term] means [Only Positive Term] unless otherwise qualified. The default hypothesis should be that OP deliberately intended the more inclusive “Not + [Negative]”, not that that this was an accidental misnomer.
Natural language is not well described at all with analogies to first order logic. Centuries of thought on the philosophy of language have well established this.
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#174The first thing I notice browsing the homepage is that these "not depressing news" are often feel-good stories that can be uplifting but also aren't very intellectually stimulating, e.g.: >Thanks to ‘Super Mom’ Saving Her Husband’s Life, He Opens His Eyes in Time to See His Son’s Birth That's super nice to hear but it barely qualifies as "news" as far as I'm concerned. Meanwhile those that seem more interesting are n…
Reddit's /r/upliftingnews suffers from the same problem. "Woman held captive in basement entire life visits Yosemite." I don't feel uplifted, and that's not news.
The real story is that the woman was held captive for her entire life - which is bad news!
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe use a VPN? The issue is clearly with indonesian ISPs.
It's not the user's fault, they shouldn't need a VPN to read an uplifting news site... That's just depressing...
Agreed, the fault is with the ISPs. It seems that they are not actually providing internet service.