It's wild to me that this is at the top of Hacker News, but not even on the Google News front page.
I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines.
I feel like major airline crashes are usually headlines.
Not really, how many of these accidents from last year do you recognize?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
It gets all over the news when a whole lot of people die, for evident reasons.
The problem is everyone seems to have survived
On the other hand, the concentration of people who are interested in planes/flights are definitely higher on HN than something as generic as Google news
An aviation disaster is a fascinating thing because it pushes forward safety protocols or engineering safeguards.
There is nothing interesting about a car that smashes into a guardrail, which is what rubberneckers are into.
HN has a fascination with Boeing's incompetency, greed and corner cutting that resulted in lost lives. That evolved tangentially into an interest in aviation incidents and accidents.
I really think that's some reverse causality here (source: been here since at least 2012, eyeing my account registration date). The Boeing thing is of recent years but commercial airline crashes have always been interesting to many people from my perception
When smart people get greedy, they build things that last and that they can be proud of, because that's what's best for them long term.
Whereas when smart people have zero greed, they build nothing at all. You need a strong motivation to power you through the pain of creating something good.
Is it? Many greedy people seem to happily fail upwards (or sideways to different companies). The baseline for compensation is generally what your previous compensation was, not the long-term success of your creations.
A long term success is a safer bet, a bigger payout, less stressful, and something to be proud of on your deathbed.
Compare causing and then jumping from one shipwreck to another like a stressed out little rat.
A smart person who wants a great life will choose a long-term orientation.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.