Hacker News: andyst

New comment by andyst in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

andyst — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:45:35 +0000

valve would have the money......

New comment by andyst in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

andyst — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:05:15 +0000

and programming is just typing!

New comment by andyst in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

andyst — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:38:24 +0000

well the good news is, you are exactly who they are looking for! you could just buy some merch though, which has the same effect

otherwise using ROIC or CAGR might be more optimal way to evaluate your investments

New comment by andyst in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

andyst — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:26:23 +0000

nation state owned airlines dumping prices into unprotected domestic markets

rising cost bases in legacy fleet costs, engineering costs. a lot of airlines fail near their capital renewal programs as fleet age > 25yrs

pure domestic competition beomes a race to the bottom between full service and low cost carriers removing any premium

New comment by andyst in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

andyst — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:36:05 +0000

in the australian market theres often comparison between how BYD/(chinese brands) may unseat Tesla (as the scale EV first mover), but I haven't seen what I think is the prize, which is BYD want to take on Toyota as the de facto king of global car making. They want the whole car market, not just EV and are already setup to take that on.

New comment by andyst in "America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides"

andyst — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:24:21 +0000

the AI umbrella has been helpful to my BigCorp to justify more machine learning work, or discrete optimisation and scheduling problems

agentic ai which is a huge buzz in enterprise feels more like workflow and rpa (again) and people misunderstanding that getting the happy flow working is only 20% of the job.

New comment by andyst in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

andyst — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:59:21 +0000

I (still!) have an uncle who had a similar mindset, broke his leg half way through a race and only realised when he stopped at the end, that he couldnt walk any further

finally when they had to (successfully) defib him during a race, that shook him into assessing his health not running for the sake of running

There's a mindset with distance runners that I have seen over and over, just sometimes way too much of a generally good thing

New comment by andyst in "Are we the baddies?"

andyst — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:14:33 +0000

especially the australian airline example and perhaps with much broader applicability, I know that companies are completely happy with managable competition (Australian domestic airlines are functionally 2 players, and similarly across many large industries here that's true) where over time once they can establish profitable gimmicks neither party really wants to rock the boat and they're able to lock in that margin forever more. It doesn't suit established players to compete on that, they both open up losing situations in the game theory compared to silent non-competition.

In high capital businesses like airlines and supermarkets it seems to play out all over the place these days.

New comment by andyst in "Has the decline of knowledge work begun?"

andyst — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:42:10 +0000

I somewhat resonate with this. Working in mature industries where competition has condensed down to larger players with enormous scale and embedded product distribution, don't need to compete _much_ on innovation or product, just on price.

I don't think specifically AI has done this compared to a broader view of constant stream of digitilisation of every departments function.

Orgs don't need grads to learn the ropes from the bottom and make their way up the career ladder, when the ladders might only be 3-4 rungs high now.

New comment by andyst in "DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL"

andyst — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:38:38 +0000

When seeing the approach to how Elon/DOGE applied themselves to air traffic control after the incidents, I'm not falling into the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. This group is just incompetent and going to re-learn all the mistakes within each domain that led to industry getting to where it has through a series of hard won lessons.

New comment by andyst in "Musk: The DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the ATC system"

andyst — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 04:51:34 +0000

the existing systems deliver the international standards for air traffic management that needs to move in sync for all parties, ATC, Airports, Airlines, Manufacturers and Regulators. Technology suppliers to each of those parties where they differ will need to be involved in anything material.

there are many systems involved to manage different parts of flight, are built to spec and integrated deeply across all the parties

even if the systems are old in some cases, they deliver the agreed standards, so updates need to be agreed via organisations like ICAO or IATA and rolled out via a predictable timeline through a managed change process

this is all integrated with human processes, such as for the flight deck

New comment by andyst in "The emotional trial of clinical trials: like online dating with death risk"

andyst — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:03:07 +0000

Having been through similar processes with family, scouring medical journals and trials for the answer as if its stack overflow, you're in a period of high stress I think I can understand that may have led to the authors perspective and expectations shaping the narrative here.

New comment by andyst in "The Fed's Big Problem, There Are Two Economies but Only One Interest Rate"

andyst — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:47:00 +0000

the australian economy digs up dirt from the ground and sells it for a lot, it covers all our issues. theres a lot more that could be said, but it fundamentally comes down to that

New comment by andyst in "A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments"

andyst — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:29:58 +0000

Having played counter-strike on dial-up '99 and not having unlimited internet time, the bots - Botman, PODbot, NNBot and many others using neural nets was ground breaking then.

The goals of those niche bots were certainly different but in some ways the recent hype doesn't surprise me as much having experienced that period too.

I reflect that the limited internet then drove innovation in offline play that had really stagnanted till recently, I'm looking forward to the first game that really pushes the limit with their NPCs using some of this new tech

New comment by andyst in "The New Audi A3 Is Amess with In-Car Subscriptions"

andyst — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:53:56 +0000

this is what happens when businesses are led by mbas and accountants, I'm sure the numbers look fantastic

New comment by andyst in "Open Source does not win by being cheaper"

andyst — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:10:18 +0000

in the event of an incident, the exec or departments reputational liability

New comment by andyst in "Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert"

andyst — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:23:42 +0000

Victorville preferable due to lower humidity then alice, for longer term storage its desirable

Alice is more fun because you can find snakes on your planes when you go to get them

New comment by andyst in "Bill Gates warns Covid lockdowns could drag on into 2022"

andyst — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 00:42:05 +0000

You're misinterpreting this article by skipping to a certain section, each of the graphs and the options you select combine together.

New comment by andyst in "Why Thomas Cook Collapsed"

andyst — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:47:47 +0000

Not specifically. The article indicates changing market preferences for travel, digitisation of agency functions, emergence of low cost carriers and market disruption in airbnb as the underlying causes.

Although they may have had 150k stranded customers it seems they were left with a low yielding segment selling products the market didn't need.

New comment by andyst in "First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus"

andyst — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:59:25 +0000

Such a difficult game to get into, convincing legacy airlines who have entrenched and certified workforces and expensive engineering supply chains, the business case of adding another manufacturers equipment is almost insurmountable. Even making a great aircraft isn't enough let alone accounting for what airbus and boeing can respond with if you pose a threat.