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Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by yakhinvadim »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #32

Seems us/eu-centric? I’ll definitely keep an eye on it to see if the composition changes with important events elsewhere in the world. Even if only English language sources are considered, there are available ones for non-English-speaking countries, example from Spain https://english.elpais.com/

Good point, I noticed this as well.

As you said analyzing news in other languages should help with bringing up different perspectives. I'll work on that.

But I'm still not sure what to do about chatgpt's bias. For now I just accept it.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by throwawaaarrgh »

News isn't significant, only relevant, as the significance is relative. Who's reading it, where they are, what their interests are, what impacts them, and so on. There's no way to generalize it because even some people who it directly impacts may simply not care; it's not significant for them. So the best way to deliver significant news is to personalize, not generalize.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

KMnO4 wrote: post #2

Very cool! > “Today ChatGPT read 1289 top news and gave 13 of them a significance score over 6/10.” Is an excellent hook. I wish there was more of a basis on the score it chose. For example: > “Russia suffers 100,000 casualties in Ukraine conflict, US estimates.” is #2 and ranked 6.8 > “White House estimates Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties in Ukraine since December.” is #237 and ranked 3.8.

Agreed on the point, but your example brings up a different problem for me.

100,000 dead Russians, is very likely the propaganda number. Maybes it’s right; maybe it’s not, IDK, but I know that there has been zero negative Ukraine news since the conflict started (ghost of Kiev anyone?), and the media machine definitely only works one way on this topic.

I mean, Russia isn’t the good guy here, but I don’t excuse propaganda just because it tells a story I want to hear.

In this case, I don’t care what the US or Ukraine says the number is. That isn’t news. It’s narrative, true or not.

So, I feel like the score should take into account if how likely an article is to be narrative vs purely an event.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by yakhinvadim »

ivanstegic wrote: post #31

Very cool. Q: Could you please add RSS? I’d use this every day if I could get it in Feedly. (NM found it in a comment https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml ) Q: Why’d you choose 6.5 as the default? Sorry if you answered that already.

6.5 seemed like a sweet spot for number of news. It results in 1-5 news each day. I tried 6.0 at some point, but I think it resulted in like 10-20 articles each day which seemed a bit much.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by yakhinvadim »

Galicarnax wrote: post #37
yakhinvadim wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, good point, just created it: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml I have no control over it, but let me know if there are any problems with it — I'll see what I can do.

Added it into Feedly, the news appear not as expected: https://postimg.cc/KKNps2xk

I see, newlines are missing, will try to fix soon.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by tfourb »

yakhinvadim wrote: post #9
msla wrote: post #5

What a great way to see the bias play out in real time.

I noticed some bias because I only analyze sources in English. It should be easy to make ChatGPT also read news in other languages, maybe that will help. Is that what you meant?

It also seems to be very US-centric and seems to put a strong focus on reporting on the economy. I personally found nothing particularly relevant to my existence featured on the site.

These two biases are probably indicative of a host of other, less obvious biases. To be clear: all media is biased, because it is created by biased humans and it has been well demonstrated that algorithms replicate the biases of their creators.

A good newspaper/website knows their audience and delivers reporting relevant to it in a language they appreciate and cognizant of its societal impact.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by yakhinvadim »

ccppurcell wrote: post #40
yakhinvadim wrote: post #3

Hey 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…

A great use case for llms. I'm not expecting you to do this, but I would love to choose my own news sites. I'm a Brit living in Czech Republic. So I'd maybe have the guardian, BBC, and some Czech sources in there. Not so interested in American news, any American news that affects me will reach my local sources. But great work!

Thank you!

Adding filter for news sources should be pretty easy, I'll consider it for "advanced view".

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by neongodzilla »

ivanstegic wrote: post #31

Very cool. Q: Could you please add RSS? I’d use this every day if I could get it in Feedly. (NM found it in a comment https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml ) Q: Why’d you choose 6.5 as the default? Sorry if you answered that already.

Another request for RSS please!
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