Why was the comment from the Author flagged? I found it helpful.

Is it because it's a summary? Because I also found it helpful as I went through the actual link.

Is it because of the low Karma? Because mine's not that high, either, and it seems quite difficult to get people to upvote you here unless you are a sycophant for their particular political or technology bias.

So, what's the deal HN? Have we become elitists? I don't get it.

To the author:

I'm sorry that your post is flagged and now mostly hidden unless someone actively tries to read it.

I'm actually curious about a few things.

1. How much total did you spend (and with which provider)? I'm curious because I've seen a lot of people do experiments like this, and I see that you gave an amount for how much you spent to get a correct answer, but I would also love to know how much it cost to do it all in the first place. I'm assuming that you had to re-run attempts, failed runs, etc. I think there's value in understanding the cost to get the results throughout development, not just the final result.

In other words, I think that many people don't appreciate how much work/$$$ it takes to develop something like this... they only look at the final result. I want to better appreciate it myself.

2. How long does it take to run? You may have mentioned it in the writeup, but I don't recall.

3. What was your motivation? General curiosity, or are you working as part of a larger picture?

4. Are you intending to publish the results beyond what you've done here?