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resist_futilityyesterday at 4:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

warning: viewing the videos that auto play on that page shot up my downloads to 350Mbps on that page


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harshrealityyesterday at 4:53 PM

I only noticed after more than an hour with the page left open in a tab. Is it really streaming and re-streaming the same videos? There's too much to cache so it keeps re-transferring them indefinitely?

I hope nobody leaves that page open on a metered or capped network connection.

I'm surprised github hasn't suspended the page.

Are AI researchers so used to burning through compute and network resources that they don't stop to think about a webpage that will autoplay and loop multiple HD videos?

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marc_gyesterday at 8:00 PM

My 70mbps connection couldn't even buffer the videos so I gave up trying to watch them. It didn't even look that high quality...