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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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This is a really weird premise for a site, but after a couple videos, all I could think was, this is an awesome glimpse at humanity.

And it makes me wonder about using similar approaches to break down the echo chambers we find ourselves in. We have a perception of what's normal based on what we see, but what we see is based on what we're already exposed to and what we ourselves do. Randomly seeing what a bunch of other people did this week? Great for that. I also saw someone rave about "Donut" this week - schedules random 1-on-1's with people in y…

I work at a dumpster fire of a company, but Donut Buddies still shines through with benefits to me. I don't even think others are aware of its true value. I often will make cross-functional inferences about company level things, or will bring up strategy from a different part of the company in discussions, and I have other engineers kind of just stare at me and say ".... how do you know that?"

"from, get this, talking to my colleagues on a regular basis"

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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I love this, what I really need is a back button or history though, what if i see something I love and then it switches before I think to hit the freeze button? It is gone forever? (As far as I'm concerned)

The site logs each video to your browser's console in the format `Playing {0} in [object Object]`. You can rewatch by visiting https://youtu.be/{0}.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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The implementation here is somewhat interesting. - Video IDs are spit out onto a Socket.io connection. (Another person claims it’s synchronized, which seems likely.) - While one video plays, another player is in the background buffering the next video. Making it quite seemless. - The code is from 2011, apparently, and it feels like it. You have code in script tags and plain old unminified JS, not to mention jQuery. N…

"These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views." That is from the initial page load. So it would seem that the title pattern that you observed is intentional

It's probably a strategy to find videos that were recorded IRL by real people.

There's a ton of content on YouTube that's generated automatically, as well as marketing videos, screencasts, etc. but those are not going to be nearly as interesting as something that someone recorded and uploaded by hand.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Clean it of trash and you will receive less trash recommendations. Fully cleaning isn't effective as the average video quality is lower than most HN public would like to watch. Having mostly good videos you like makes it recommend more similar content to you.

It's not just average video quality, it's that (as far as anyone can tell), the algorithm optimizes for expected value of total watch time, as opposed to optimizing for just the likelihood of watching the next video. Basically, the recommendations behave as though they "hope" that you will go down a conspiracy or outrage rabbit hole and binge 12 hours of garbage.

For me it correctly "hopes" I'll go down science rabbit holes, which I do. I'm similar to the person above, I watch a lot of educational content, and I also get suggested great content.

Right now I see the follow up to the guy who build his own VGA card, video of someone building a camera that can see wifi, and a PBS video on the "quantum internet". All great suggestions.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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This project is fantastic and has potential in bringing people closer together. I just watched a man propose to his girlfriend in another language. (I'm pretty sure she said yes!)

Then you get things like this: https://youtu.be/syiSYMPwFck

Apparently this is some poor attempt at parody.

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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

#229

I really love the way it connects people, but... Doesn't anyone question that youtube is basically run by an ad service? If you really want to connect to people then why does "company x" wants to know and keep tabs? Why is there a thumbs up or down in the first place? Or even, why doesn't the number of views matter to you in this case. "company x" had a great search engine but now it seems crippled by the fact you ca…

Lets at least try to be fair here though: hosting the amount of content YouTube hosts, and delivering it to viewers, is not inexpensive. What alternative funding model do you propose?

You're right, it's expensive and needs to be funded.

Suppose I had an alternate funding model. Also suppose I wanted youtube to change it (note: I never said that). How does that invalidate the bad things I pointed out with the current model?

You never said whether or not you agreed with my original points.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Absolutely brilliant point. In the same vein of avoiding bubbles, I browse reddit by 'Top Of The Hour'. Filtrated enough to be decent quality, very fresh content, and not yet subverted by bubble affiliation or mind hiveing.

I tried that just now and it shows lots of memes. How do you do that and have it show regular content?

I don't browse r/all, I use the front page with a curated selection of subreddits (programmer humor, aviation, android, various other interests)
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