turbojet1321 (u/turbojet1321)

turbojet1321 commented on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed scientificamerican.com/po... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

yakhinvadim · 7 months ago

I tried to solve this problem by making AI rank the stories by significance and rewriting the news titles in a boring, factual style.

I think it worked quite well, there's only about 10 headlines a day (out of 15k+) that get a significance rating higher than of 5.5 out of 10.

It also helps avoiding the overfocus on western issues and actually learn what's happening around the world.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

Thanks for newsminimalist - other than what comes up on HN it's the only news I read these days. It's usually just enough to keep me in touch without any of the outrage.

turbojet1321 commented on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed scientificamerican.com/po... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

johnnyanmac · 7 months ago

So what's your alternative? Living in ignorance until it's too late?

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

That's a false equivalence which is at the heart of the issue. You seem to be be assuming that "being informed" makes you better placed and/or more willing to take right action, but I'm not convinced that's the case

turbojet1321 commented on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/jbegley

iwontberude · 7 months ago

moralistic relativism creates cover for egocentrism to destroy us

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

Yes but unfortunately that doesn't make it false.

turbojet1321 commented on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE wired.com/story/elon-musk... · Posted by u/medler

jimmydoe · 7 months ago

One thing CCP did masterfully is sending very young grads, who are newly admitted to the party, to go to different local communities and evaluate the outcome government project like poverty reduction there (because obviously Xi don’t trust local officials and party members). These young people have a lot of energy to make some impact, also too young to lie or corrupt. The result turned out to be actually effective.

There are quite some admiration for CCP from the american new right like moldbug and musk, It seems either they took a page from CCP, or happen to think alike.

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

> too young to lie or corrupt

In my experience, youth has little to do with honesty or corruptibility.

turbojet1321 commented on Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living videotoflip.com/... · Posted by u/momciloo

karaterobot · 7 months ago

This is weird, but I make my living by digitizing old flipbooks into MP4 files!

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

It's the circle of life

turbojet1321 commented on Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022) efavdb.com/memory%20recal... · Posted by u/rzk

adham-omran · 7 months ago

Wozniak is incredible, it saddens me that SuperMemo will probably drift into obscurity due to being closed source and the chances of seeing its source code drift away day by day, it took a few years to get anything beyond IE support after that died.

I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

There's an Anki plugin[0] though I know almost nothing about Anki or incremental reading, so I have no idea who good it is.

0:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/999215520

turbojet1321 commented on Goodbye, Slopify alexeystar.com/blog/slopi... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

I recently ditched Spotify for Qobuz. Spotify has always been a bit of a letdown, even though I've been using it since Rdio went bust (so ~10yrs). The thing that finally pushed me over the edge was the amount of shit content they push at my kids.

I want to me able to give my 10yo an app on their phone to listen to music, and not have to check to see if they're actually watching videos, or listening to (possibly wildly inappropriate) podcasts - or worst of both worlds - watching video podcasts.

Qobuz isn't perfect in terms of UI, but they seem to care about, and only care about, music. I trialed Amazon Music, but it (unsurprisingly) is an ad platform, too. Apple Music was a contender - the only reason I didn't end up with it is because (also unsurprisingly) it doesn't integrate well with network streamers.

Qobuz is a bit more expensive, but so far it has been worth it.

turbojet1321 commented on Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs github.com/Arthi-chaud/Me... · Posted by u/arti_chaud

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

This looks cool, but I'm not 100% sure what it does. Is the "music server" part just a backend for the web UI, or does it serve via other protocols like DLNA?

turbojet1321 commented on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work mertbulan.com/2025/01/26/... · Posted by u/mertbio

scarface_74 · 7 months ago

What do you think happens once a company knows you are looking for a job and then you don’t get the new job? Do you think they are going to give you the plumb assignments? Raises? Promotions?

If you think Australia is some utopia where the advice isn’t the same

https://www.seek.com.au/career-advice/article/should-you-tel...

https://www.sprintpeople.com.au/should-you-tell-your-boss-yo...

https://mane.com.au/news/how-your-boss-can-tell-you-are-look...

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

> What do you think happens once a company knows you are looking for a job and then you don’t get the new job?

Maybe it depends how useful you are. IME, they're grateful to have you say a while longer.

One of the guys I work with had accepted another job and was virtually out the door when the new job fell through. My company gladly welcomed him back, kept giving him challenging work and eventually promoting him.

A couple of months ago I told my boss and my boss's boss I was going to start looking for other jobs. They tried to see if there was something that'd make me stay, and when there wasn't, they were 100% supportive. If I said tomorrow "actually, I've had a change of heart, I'd like to stay" they'd be genuinely pleased. This has basically been the story my whole career.

Sure, if your boss is an arsehole they'll do arsehole things. My advice is not to work for arseholes.

turbojet1321 commented on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work mertbulan.com/2025/01/26/... · Posted by u/mertbio

scarface_74 · 7 months ago

Typo, I meant no one is going to let you talk to their current manager.

There is no way I’m going to let my current job know that I’m looking for a job. That would be completely illegal advised.

turbojet1321 · 7 months ago

It's a job; not a cult. People come and go. If I were working somewhere that made me feel like I couldn't leave without being super secretive about it, that would be a huge red flag.