That was an unsubstantive comment, that started a generic tangent, and veers onto the wrong side of these parts of the guidelines:
Don't be snarky. Converse curiously
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Please don’t post snark on HN. Gary is, objectively, an AI expert. He’s been a leading researcher for decades and sold an AI company to Uber. He obviously sees things differently from the current generation of AI company leaders and has concerns about the direction of the AI industry. That doesn’t mean it’s fine to disrespect someone like this here. The first rule of the “In Comments” section of the guidelines is be kind.
The only thing that should be surprising to anyone who knows about the early history of OpenAI is how little of it YC owns, given how much it leveraged YC’s credibility to get started (early employees joined an institution called “YC Research”, operating from YC’s office space). Once that stake is divided up among all the LPs and small unit holders, it’s not a huge outcome.
Also: nothing gets sustained attention on HN unless good hackers find it interesting. Our entire objective is to be the website that attracts the best hackers, serves them the most interesting content and facilitates the most interesting discussions. That can’t happen if we’re nefariously pushing a commercial agenda.
- Steve Huffman ~3% Although he had ~4% voting power via Class B shares.
- Alexis Ohanian: Minimal
- Advance Publications: ~30%
- Tencent: ~11%.
The original founders (Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian) massively diluted when they sold Reddit to Advance Publications in 2006 for $10 to $20 million.
> is a million times better than the tyranny and destruction of the eurojihadi Zelensky
Could you please not post in this style on HN. It's fine to argue against the dominant view, and we've already banned someone else in this thread arguing the opposing side to you, but the style in which you're arguing your position is inflammatory and fulminatory which is not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
We've had to ask this of you several times over the years, but it seems the pattern is continuing unabated, as can be seen from your participation in other threads about geopolitical topics lately.
This is only a site that people come to for discussions about interesting or difficult topics because other people make the effort to observe the guidelines and participate positively.
We're not going to solve complex geopolitical disputes with heated discussions on HN. It costs us or the world nothing to discuss these things in the spirit of curiosity rather than vitriol.
We've banned this account. It's always been against the guidelines to engage in political or ideological battle on HN, and repeatedly posting slurs about an entire nation is never acceptable here. It's one thing to critique a nation’s government and military in recent times; quite another to slur an entire people and its culture and history. HN is a site that reaches everywhere in the world and welcomes people from every nation, and it's not cool to post in ways that make people feel they don't belong here simply because of the country they were born into.
Further, almost all your comments in recent days have been inflammatory, fulminatory or merely curmudgeonly, all of which is explicitly against the guidelines. We've asked you before to observe the guidelines, and with this pattern of activity in the past few days, a ban is necessary if we're to have any standards at all.
If you don't want to be banned, you can email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and commit to respecting the site and its guidelines in future.
They can't do this most of the time because for most of the year on most routes, supply outstrips demand (i.e., many/most flights on most airlines fly at least a little bit empty, often significantly empty – overall load factors are about 80-85%). They have to charge fares that customers will be willing to pay, even if that means losing money on a given flight. They can only charge profitable fares on the routes and times of year when demand surges (peak routes, holiday periods, major events). They have to keep their network capacity high enough to satisfy the peak demand, but for most of the year and most of the network, demand is lower, so they have to settle for break-even or loss-minimization. (For the record, I co-founded a flight search startup that became a fare optimization platform.)
Was that Flightfox? If so, I loved using it, helped me save so much money but also time :)
It sounds like there’s a problem with having too many flights that are barely full and hence unprofitable. AFAIK the federal gov spends significant money subsidising many “small airport” routes even if they’re barely used.
That’s just the nature of the beast. Airlines have to align large capital intensive assets with fluctuating passenger demand and fuel prices. And at congested airports the slots are also expensive assets that get auctioned off, and operate on a use it or lose it basis.
Spirit and the other LCC’s problem is that the legacy airlines are now offering a similar product in their basic economy that has less hassle, higher frequency, is sometimes eligible for earnings on their massive loyalty programs, etc.
“Regardless, it's acceptable here to mock climate deniers, capitalists (landlords, CEOs, Billionaires), SUV or truck drivers, religious fundamentalists, various flavors of conservatives…” [1]
Both these positions are examples of an effect that dang called the “notice dislike bias” [2].
From reading the discussions here every day for years, there’s more criticism of Flock, Musk and major tech figures/companies than there is support.
Regardless of that, it’s not cool to sneer at things on HN, including the rest of the community. This is a site for curious conversation, not intellectual strutting and preening. Curiosity and humility are intrinsically linked. Not everyone plays chess but can still benefit from learning about its concepts, even if you feel it’s beneath you. I’ve been in tech for many years and had never heard that knowing all about chess was inherent to the “hacker ethos”.
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