Hacker News: biophysboy

New comment by biophysboy in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

biophysboy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:04:53 +0000

Is this book just riffing about embedding space? I thought about reading it eventually, but the quoted passage is kind of annoying/tedious

New comment by biophysboy in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

biophysboy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:46:45 +0000

Tech still broadly respects edgy, hot take contrarianism, even if they think Andreessen is stupid in this instance.

New comment by biophysboy in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

biophysboy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:33:06 +0000

Introspection is not doomscrolling though. Being tugged around by short-lived stimuli from a feed is the opposite of deep self-reflection.

In order to go from reading the news to going outside and doing yardwork, you need to have a thought along the lines of "this doesn't feel good - I should do something else". That is introspection.

New comment by biophysboy in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

biophysboy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:40:42 +0000

I had to, and I work in a completely different agency (NIH)

New comment by biophysboy in "Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday"

biophysboy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:28:32 +0000

how many habeas petitions were there in previous admins?

New comment by biophysboy in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

biophysboy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:16:22 +0000

Ha! That seems like a waste. As I said, commute time determines whether its worth it.

New comment by biophysboy in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

biophysboy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:10:05 +0000

That's definitely true - ideally, there would be one day where almost everyone comes in for the all-hands meeting. Whether that is realistic depends..

New comment by biophysboy in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

biophysboy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:03:47 +0000

I think the perfect set-up is hybrid, with 1-2 days office / 3-4 days home. Virtual meetings are significantly worse than in-person. But obviously the commute determines whether this is "on net" worthwhile.

New comment by biophysboy in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

biophysboy — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:27:31 +0000

There are other public healthcare models besides Beveridge though. Some countries do the payment & financing via gov, but the actual service is a mix of public/private. Not a perfect solution, but in my opinion better than what we have now. Maybe more achievable than Beveridge too.

New comment by biophysboy in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

biophysboy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:38:40 +0000

There are a lot of HN users that think they are better at science because they know about p-hacking and the limitations of animal models.

New comment by biophysboy in "GPT-5.4"

biophysboy — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:58:10 +0000

Wow, is that what preview means? I see those model options in github copilot (all my org allows right now) - I was under the impression that preview means a free trial or a limited # of queries. Kind of a misleading name..

New comment by biophysboy in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

biophysboy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:26:33 +0000

Yes? Earnings matter to investors

New comment by biophysboy in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

biophysboy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:51:23 +0000

Thanks. I don't think this DoD invented the term. I was trying to verify my own impression that they use it more often in public comms.

New comment by biophysboy in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

biophysboy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:39:14 +0000

Thanks for replying - so its used as a generic catch-all term internally? Did previous DoD secretaries use it in speeches? I thought they used bureaucratic terms like service member. I guess that doesn't work in casual conversation...

New comment by biophysboy in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

biophysboy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:33:05 +0000

?? I am genuinely asking ... nevermind, another person answered

New comment by biophysboy in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

biophysboy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:00:57 +0000

Hundreds of companies have filed lawsuits against the admin over the tariffs.

New comment by biophysboy in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

biophysboy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:52:03 +0000

How often was the term used before last year?

New comment by biophysboy in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

biophysboy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:25:00 +0000

What does effective weapons mean in this particular instance?

New comment by biophysboy in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"

biophysboy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:45:50 +0000

Am I too much of an idealist to hope that AI leads to less buggy software? On the one hand, it should reduce the time of development; on the other hand, I'm worried devs will just let the agents run free w/o proper design specs.

New comment by biophysboy in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

biophysboy — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:39:15 +0000

Many tech execs operate under the thesis that china & the democratic party are existential threats that warrant a surveillance/military/police ramp up. Meanwhile, many tech employees are credulous and frequently adopt self-serving geopolitical narratives. The current macro trends don't help (huge defense budgets, bad labor market power, China is in fact more powerful)

Edit:forgot the most obvious... money