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News Minimalist – Only significant news
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assumed you did one llm batch a day and served it to all users. With +- buttons wouldn't you need to re-engage the llm?
Could just ask the model for 5 lengths/levels of detail per article and have the +/- switch between them.
This is what I was thinking, sort of like the mechanism that Newsela and others use for their leveled reading platforms.
If you were so inclined, it would probably be pretty trivial to also offer leveled versions as well, which would be very useful for schools/teachers to use with students. There are a handful of companies that have bespoke leveled reading articles created from standard news articles. ChatGPT would make the workflow for creating news articles much easier, though manual QC would still be necessary to ensure that the article summaries are accurate and appropriate for students.
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#203I liked and, as some people commented, for wide adoption it is important to have some sort of customisation since every person have their own sense of what is relevant or not. But one thing that is missing imho is a RSS Feed. RSS is not dead and a lot of people still uses instead of consume a newsletter at their e-mails.
I would also love to see RSS with a filter parameter. I want something roughly once a week.
It would be best if the feed can also update one-by-one rather than the daily batch, but not a deal breaker.
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#204Congrats on the idea and execution. I was thinking about launching similar product, but I thought it'd be too costly to parse all these articles. I was thinking more of first summarizing these articles (avg article has like 1000 words) and then implementing a recommendation module. Without a successful paid plan,I think I'd fail hardly with cost :(
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
I score each article individually, so there's no need to put many news in one context window. In 99% cases a single news article fits within the context. I drop those that don't fit, since several examples I saw were announcement of lottery numbers (too many tokens) and articles with broken html.
The score has to be in relation to other articles. Or else it's too random to have meaning. ChatGPT doesn't even given consistent scores from session-to-session for the same article. And the context length limit prevents that relation from extending to more then a few articles, if that's your method. i.e. Your method doesn't actually produce a meaningful score that can be ranked in some linear order with the 1200 oth…
You are spot on. I use temperature 0, but even with it, ChatGPT can be unpredictable.
Sometimes I'm very frustrated about the news that get to the top. When I try to debug it, it gives me a completely different score.
I considered using ranges over discrete score, but dropped the idea, as it makes it too hard to find 1-5 articles that should make it to newsletter (there are 71 articles in this range right now) and it's hard to clearly display that idea in UI.
I guess my position right now is — it's not perfect, there are obvious errors (like the one you found above), and improvements are definitely possible.
But I hope that some people would find it "good enough" even with these inconsistencies. I also hope that ChatGPT or another LLM will make a big progress soon that would solve this problem automatically.
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Nice catch. Just checked that article — it actually got rating 2.8 just based on the news content, but the source credibility 1/10 brought it down to 0.3. I don't think it's fair, I think ChatGPT hallucinated that it's a tabloid. Not sure how to fix this. I don't want to adjust sources credibility manually, that will introduce too much bias. My hope is that OpenAI will update ChatGPT with newer data and I could rerun…
So how exactly is the credibility score determined? Is it just asking "On a scale of 0 to 10, how credible is this source?"
It's a bit longer, but that's the gist of it.
I just realized, for that particular news article about Regenerative medicine it was my mistake all along. I asked ChatGPT to give unknown sources a score of 1 and completely forgot about. I think that's what it did.
For now it marked only 8 sources as unknown out of 1700.
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#207It's more like "top world news". It's a nice project OP! I'm just ranting about terminology. "Significant" has a very personal context. Things that affects significance to me are things like: proximity to my home/work, my hobbies, my age, my financial situation, etc. For example, if my neighbourhood's crime rate had gone up by 100%, I'd want to see that amongst the top news of the day.
Exactly! I came here to say the same thing.
This project is very cool, but the top results are only significant for people concerned with politics and economics. It would be amazing to generate a custom score for the articles based on topics that impact me and my community the most.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an awesome idea and I'm kicking myself for not thinking about it before. Very creative. Have you made any attempt at quantifying its biases? Both whether it considers left- or right-leaning articles more significant and where it focuses most of its reporting. (Economy and the US from a first glance?)
> Have you made any attempt at quantifying its biases? Both whether it considers left- or right-leaning articles FWIW, when I read news I often cross check on different outlets to get a sense of the span, range and sometimes media blackouts, including the ones with extreme bias (like RT reporting on Ukraine). This can give a good reading of the meta-temperature of a developing or controversial situation with a lot of…
Great idea, the “here’s what different outlets are saying” feature.
Stories that aren’t narrative-friendly to main stream media.
Media blackouts to highlight propaganda and bias.
Make it easy for reader to see the "manufactured consent"!
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#209Hey HN, author of the site here! Happy to answer any questions. (below is the project description I used when posted about it on Reddit) The problem I have with most news sites is that I can't read only important news: an article about a virus outbreak is followed by some celebrity gossip or another smartphone release. But even on sites that focus on important events articles are posted every day and there are always…
So cool! Would you be able to explain your architecture?
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