Overrated

Let me help you there. Have you considered writing: "I think this lecture series is overrated, because $SERIES_A and $SERIES_B is much better, because ..."

Or you could explain why you dislike the communication style, the pace or anything else that others could also relate to.

This way we can just guess, and guessing includes bad options like "dev_0 just had a petty conflict with the lecturer" or "dev_0 tried themselves to teach this and did worse so it is envy".

So if you want to provide value, please explain yourself or just don't comment with one word in the future. If you don't want to provide value, consider commenting on youtube instead.

I think the comment provided value. I was about to start watching it but now I won't and I don't really care why they think that. The fact that someone thinks it's so overrated that they need to comment on it is enough.

There will never be 100% consensus on which content is worth watching on any topic, does that mean that you never consider watching anything?

That would be great. My ever-expanding backlog gives me anxiety so I'm always looking for an escape hatch. A small comment like that is enough to give me peace and lose the FOMO.

This leads to exactly the kinds of asymmetry that trolls take advantage of, basically a form of Brandolini's Law[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law

Hmmm... feeding your body is overrated, will you stop eating now? ;)

Not a bad idea. I fast regularly and it makes me feel great.

I have been trying period long term fasting, and tbh once you get used to it, it's quite pleasant.

The YouTube comment trope is out of date - YouTube comments nowadays are great. At least on the videos I watch.

YouTube’s default comment sort appears to do sentiment analysis to decide what to show - even remotely negative comments and replies I’ve made simply do not show up unless you switch to “New”

It appears to work - nearly all videos appear chock full of only positive feedback.

Alright, I'll bite. What makes you feel that way, and what do you prefer for the same subject matter instead? I don't know of many people posting this type of content in a raw format to youtube.

This comment had a bunch of replies that just.. disappeared.

Turn on showdead to see downvoted comments. Usually they are low effort and low value; you’re not missing much.

I did not know that. It is amazing how perception of HN changes drastically once you turn this flag on. It is not as extreme as "turning into a completely different website" but certainly it becomes less interesting. There is a sizeable amount of toxicity.

Yes. That's one cost of having a large, open, optionally-anonymous internet forum. We can't stop such posts but consigning them to a separate partition seems to work ok.

If you wish to see such stuff, turn on "showdead" in your profile settings.

As others said, the root comment was flagged for being a shallow dismissal (all it said was "overrated").

You can see them by enabling "showdead" on your profile, or you can go here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34592145

Totally agree!

These are basically - mind blowing.

Logged in just to upvote this, such an excellent resource!

The "Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out." demystifies so much of machine learning and chatbots. It's so cool to see how simple python code can be leveraged into something so amazing.

I've watched some of his videos in the past, extremely humbling experience. Thank you for sharing this, it deserves a top spot on this thread.