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New comment by jfyi in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

jfyi — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:12:28 +0000

It doesn't need to make clones into absolute copies of them to be problematic. It's just an obfuscation of a very old idea, the divine right of kings.

It could be argued they would likely be worse than the original. They would be even more detached from the rest of humanity because of their position. They wouldn't be just a person that found an extreme level of success, they would be the undying legacy of that person. This is not a way to build a healthy human psyche.

New comment by jfyi in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

jfyi — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:26:07 +0000

...and here I was hoping for yours.

New comment by jfyi in "CrankGPT"

jfyi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:12:13 +0000

Yeah, it all makes sense now.

New comment by jfyi in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

jfyi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:49:19 +0000

We are bottlenecked at energy supply, not running hot via demand. Raising rates is likely to stifle already weak sections of the economy. Additionally, we are getting into territory where raising rates threatens our own ability to pay our debt.

Just to be clear, I am not coming at this from some anti-interventionist or anti-monetary tool standpoint. It's just that demand side tools seem like the wrong lever for the job. We are backing slowly into the corner of persistent inflation or structural failure of some kind.

New comment by jfyi in "Ask HN: Will you invest in SpaceX IPO?"

jfyi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:05:31 +0000

Just from keeping up with the news over the last week, the general consensus seems to be "no". It’s certainly a no for me. A more interesting question is, "will you be divesting from funds that fast-track this stock?"

Threats against politicians skyrocket on meta

jfyi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:49:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/threats-against-politicians-skyrocketed-after-meta-changed-its-speech-rules/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461151

Points: 4

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New comment by jfyi in "Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial"

jfyi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:46:50 +0000

No worry, cool. Easy to do, sorry to press. It just seemed weirdly aggressive calling the other guy out after that and I felt the need to address it.

New comment by jfyi in "Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial"

jfyi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:57:27 +0000

We don't know they were dried. We do know the strain is a particularly potent one that grows in a fashion that might not lend itself to normal water concentrations.

Really though, weren't you the one conflating mushroom dosages with those of pure psylocibin a moment ago? I find it difficult to believe someone with more than incidental experience would make that mistake.

New comment by jfyi in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

jfyi — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:37:49 +0000

Depends a lot on which end is pointing down.

New comment by jfyi in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

jfyi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:17:24 +0000

I knew a fellow with the same idea about government id of any form. No driver's license, no social security card, no state id.

To say the least, he made some pretty serious compromises in life. He was a tattoo artist with no shop and effectively homeless when I knew him, if you were curious.

Anyway, sometimes the world moves on without you.

New comment by jfyi in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

jfyi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:34:28 +0000

It's older than that. Atoms have neither orbitals, nor shells. Neither describes a probability field at various energy levels surrounding the nucleus.

Analogies aid understanding, even if on an abstract level.

New comment by jfyi in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

jfyi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:16:07 +0000

I skimmed the video, but it's definitely the same example that finally made this make sense to me.

I always hated the ball and sheet example simply because it was describing gravity with gravity. It felt fundamentally wrong.

New comment by jfyi in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

jfyi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:33:26 +0000

I've never had this problem.

The problem I have had is other developers expecting me to maintain documentation for their tools. To the point that they wage stupid inter office wars because they don't want to learn a command line utility with 20+ years of documentation itself.

New comment by jfyi in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jfyi — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:33:55 +0000

An ai tool that is priced out of the hands of the average person.

Fwiw, I think the genie is out the bottle. We are waiting on hardware to catch up, which it will.

New comment by jfyi in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

jfyi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:46:08 +0000

I actually don't think you are commenting about the casualness, but the usage of the term "stole". Correct me if I'm wrong.

I can say I view my own time in jail very transactionally and I have run into many people that don't understand that. They expect a sob story about how you were innocent, or how you turned your life around.

I don't think I'd ever say my life was "stolen" from me, but it definitely feels that way in the moment. Having a bunch of armed people come and throw you in a cage certainly leaves you with a new perspective to process.

New comment by jfyi in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

jfyi — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:41:31 +0000

I agree with your point, mostly.

Until I remember seeing someone saying "MCP is dead, we just give agents command line access now". Then I start to think that looking at this in the context of ai is helpful.

New comment by jfyi in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

jfyi — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:10:11 +0000

>What do you tax?

Physical infrastructure inputs and negative externalities.

For example: electrical grid strain, water table consumption for cooling, and local pollution/carbon footprints.

New comment by jfyi in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

jfyi — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:14:15 +0000

I think that I just take issue with the term "hand-waving" as equated to intuition. Yeah it lacked formal rigor, but they had a solid model that applied in detail to the real world. That doesn't come from just saying, "oh well, it'll work itself out". I guess if you want to call that "hand-wavy" we'll just have to disagree.

New comment by jfyi in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

jfyi — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:51:37 +0000

Newton and Leibniz were "hand-waving"?

If anything, they were fighting an uphill battle against the perception of hand-waving by their contemporaries.

New comment by jfyi in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

jfyi — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:14:13 +0000

Would you do that if you were an ex-law enforcement officer who's racial profile puts you under the protection of criminals on the yard that largely support the person you heckled while not knowing that it was only going to be 37 days?