Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jruohonen 86 days ago
Well, IoT traffic peaked "human traffic" already long ago, Netflix etc. eat a lot of bandwidth, etc., so I am not sure where the news is exactly.
6 comments

IoT traffic and streaming traffic is "invisible" to normal humans.

Your smart thermometer isn't making Reddit posts trying to sound like a human who's just concerned that the bedroom is a bit too warm.

> Well, IoT traffic peaked "human traffic" already long ago, Netflix etc. eat a lot of bandwidth, etc., so I am not sure where the news is exactly.

I think there's different kinds of traffic: raw packets and user-like interactions. I think the OP is not very clear on the line, but it's significant.

If most of the traffic on the internet akin to shell scripts making bulk FTP transfers, it's probably not news. If most of the comments being made or most of the streams on Netfix are being consumed by bots, that's pretty big news.

How is Netflix not 'human traffic'?
It's hyperbole, click bait.
Ah, well you see, now CNBC has declared it official! That obviously speaks for itself in how authoritative and momentous it is! /s
There're human-to-human (H2H), human-to-machine (H2M) or vice versa, and machine-to-machine (M2M) data communication.

If you perform simple extrapolation, the M2M data only surpass the others around 2029.

Coincidently, in the original timeline of Transformer movie, 2029 is the year that the Resistance, led by John Connor, destroyed Skynet and ended the war against the machines.

> Coincidently, in the original timeline of Transformer movie, 2029 is the year that the Resistance, led by John Connor, destroyed Skynet and ended the war against the machines.

I’d love to see that crossover Terminator and Transformers movie. Optimus Prime vs T-800 anyone?

I seem to recall that the entire chip that was created by buddy, to enable skynet, was actually a chip in a Terminator that was reverse engineered.

Leaving the original timeline uncertain.

Was it original, really the original? Or the 10th, or millionth loop?

Skynet can still be in our future.