Discussions: Real human answers in search results • Hacker News Board

Re: Discussions: Real human answers in search results

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Post by hardware2win » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

rmbyrro wrote: post #49

hardware2win wrote: post #48

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Hn is not forum Forums have way deeper discussions meanwhile hn's approach is wider

If HN is not that, I don't know what it is: Definition of forum: [1] (...) b: a public meeting place for open discussion c: a medium (such as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum

News aggregator with comment section.

Real forums operate in different way which pushes discussions in a different way

Your definition is so general that majority of things could be considered as a forum, yet it aint, thus this definition is not so useful

The biggest difference is that once something drops from front page on hn, then discussio s is dead unlike on forums where you can send thread to the top

Re: Discussions: Real human answers in search results

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Post by abetancort » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 9:27 PM UTC

What ever, you are always better customizing your search with Google Search... Google is still the king of search, but you have to know how to utilize it. Forget about any other search engine. It baffles me that HN a community of nerds still doesn't know how to use Google Search. Kept it coming.

Re: Discussions: Real human answers in search results

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Post by abetancort » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 9:31 PM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #30

mmastrac wrote: post #2

The content of Reddit discussions on relative merit are terrible. Usually a bunch of groups are repeating long-held misconceptions that may have been true at some point but are no longer true, and get upvoted by people that recognize the same out-of-date facts. I'm not saying the web-at-large is _much_ better, but curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard).…

In fields where I have expertise, the Reddit discussions I've seen are worse than nothing - the wrong answers to the wrong questions. I find them a waste of time, with very rare exceptions. Perhaps I'm painting with too broad a brush, and some subreddits are valuable? > curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard) Yes! I would love a search engine that is limi…

Don't you know where are the experts... if you know where they are you only need to customize your search in Google to get the best results. Don't be so lazy, human intelligence is far more discerning that any available AI at the moment, most everything that champs AI or Machine Learning is neither anyways.

Re: Discussions: Real human answers in search results

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Post by abetancort » Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 9:36 PM UTC

ceeplusplus wrote: post #12

mmastrac wrote: post #2

The content of Reddit discussions on relative merit are terrible. Usually a bunch of groups are repeating long-held misconceptions that may have been true at some point but are no longer true, and get upvoted by people that recognize the same out-of-date facts. I'm not saying the web-at-large is _much_ better, but curated content from true experts _tends_ to be a lot better (finding those experts is obviously hard).…

Yep, you should also be careful of people shilling (not even corporate brands doing marketing but regular people who are shareholders in a stock shilling!). For example /r/buildapc famously has a bias towards AMD CPU/GPU because many posters there are $AMD holders. Same goes for Tesla across pretty much all subreddits.

That is simply nonsense. You like NVIDIA that is fine... some other people value bang for the buck and go for AMD knowing the limitations fine. But just thinking that people are doing a concerted effort to try to pump a stock in a specialized group about building a PC is just simply insane... You better have it looked by a specialist, you may have a real problem.