I grouped posts by topic: https://n3ws.ploomber.io Explanation: https://ploomber.io/blog/hn_classifier/
sorry for the OT post, wanted to cheer for ploomber - love it for writing pipelines, didnt know your EU based (guessing by ur username?).
Show HN: Analyzing top HN posts with language models
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why you think asking that conflicts of interests being clearly disclosed is me wanting to "advocate against promotional content". Do you believe content marketing only works if it's quietly manipulative? That seems like a pretty grim take.
True, a bad way of expressing it. Correcting myself, what I mean is adding a disclaimer may make people look at it with suspicion. Or even walk away not giving a fair chance to get to know it. Whether I received a note from a stranger or from the company employee, it shouldn't change how I judge and evaluate it. Yet, I think the latter introduces bias and undercuts what could be an honest marketing effort. This is al…
If telling the truth about the origin of content created with intent of manipulating them makes readers look at it with suspicion, why is that a bad thing?
I am just gobsmacked that you think an "honest marketing effort" requires being less than honest about the fact that it's a marketing effort.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the link you shared is about a potentially separate issue. First, it's advertising in the form of paid sponsorship. Second, people have reasons to trust what a social influencer says. I'm doing neither if I have a business or work in a business and I share here an article that I wrote that happens to promote this business. I'm not paying a stranger to talk about the business, and you don't have any reason to…
There is still some trust I have with a stranger that posts on hackernews. Perhaps misplaced, but it's there nonetheless. I trust that if they took the time to post about a product, that they genuinely believe in it. If I later learn that they are just a marketer for that product, that trust will get diminished. To give another example, why do we trust product reviews by strangers on Amazon? They could all be just ma…
But amazon is full of fake reviews, and product listings, and shit... because it makes amazon money.
Re: Show HN: Analyzing top HN posts with language models
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is still some trust I have with a stranger that posts on hackernews. Perhaps misplaced, but it's there nonetheless. I trust that if they took the time to post about a product, that they genuinely believe in it. If I later learn that they are just a marketer for that product, that trust will get diminished. To give another example, why do we trust product reviews by strangers on Amazon? They could all be just ma…
But amazon is full of fake reviews, and product listings, and shit... because it makes amazon money.
and the more fake reviews, the less I trust them. Likewise, the more people here advertising their products without proper disclosure, the less I'll trust the honesty of the posts. So imo it's in the interest of the community to encourage proper disclosure, so that a certain level of trust is maintained.