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New comment by phyzix5761 in "Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf]"

phyzix5761 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:21:15 +0000

> This is a detailed study performed by experts. Do you believe they would overlook such obvious explanation?

Yes, they could have possibly overlooked things that appear to be obvious in retrospect. Happens all the time because it may or not have been the focus of the paper, or the time constraints may have not permitted this level of research. This is why we usually have multiple papers, each building on each other over time, on the same data sets/topics.

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

phyzix5761 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:42:31 +0000

So, mob rule?

New comment by phyzix5761 in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

phyzix5761 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:20:19 +0000

We haven't started the Democracy phase yet in the US. It's a constitutional republic and its working exactly as designed by the founding fathers. The wealthy elite stay in control of the Senate (equivalent to the House of Lords) and the citizens get to have their say in the House (equivalent to the House of Commons). In this system nothing becomes law unless approved by the Lords of the Senate.

This started as an Aristocracy with well meaning participants but its evolved into an Oligarchy just as anacyclosis[1] predicts. The next stage is Democracy and then that, eventually, crumbles into mob rule (Ochlocracy).

[1] https://anacyclosis.org/portfolio/what-is-anacyclosis/

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art"

phyzix5761 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:51:20 +0000

Very cool

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

phyzix5761 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:36:35 +0000

The opportunity cost to who? Its getting super expensive for businesses and engineers across the board to pay for frontier models.

Using OSINT to find the real One Piece ocean drop location [video]

phyzix5761 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:27:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY-W9gmwxhg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536243

Points: 2

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New comment by phyzix5761 in "Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)"

phyzix5761 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:12:55 +0000

Haha I played this game with my daughter the whole time she was growing up. She loved it.

New comment by phyzix5761 in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

phyzix5761 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:04:15 +0000

When you try to ban people from doing something they find ways to do it illegally. Humans have a need to socialize and kids are not going to stop using the internet for that just because of some law.

Aided by their parents, I'm sure, they will find seedier ways to do this. Ways that are not regulated at all, even by sensible laws that prevent direct exploitation. The parents obviously don't care that their kids use social media, otherwise they would take steps to stop it.

These laws are not going to bring back the days where we all were riding our bikes outside and reading physical books. That's not the way of life for these kids. But it's, very likely, going to put children in a more dangerous situation as they try to find some kind of solution to their social needs online.

Some Ethical Problems with AI

phyzix5761 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arkvis.com/blog/2026-06-10_some-ethical-problems-with-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522538

Points: 2

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New comment by phyzix5761 in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

phyzix5761 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:16:23 +0000

Source?

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Thoughts on AI and Jobs"

phyzix5761 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:14:32 +0000

There's meaning in the pain. I retired last year and for the first six months I felt lost and empty inside, like there was no meaning or purpose to my life. It wasn't until I started doing volunteer work that I found meaning again but for a while it was rough. I don't know if its an evolutionary side effect but humans need structure and goals in life which work provides.

Based on Your Digital Profile (Short Story)

phyzix5761 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:21:38 +0000

Article URL: https://arkvis.com/blog/2026-06-09_based-on-your-profile.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507585

Points: 1

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New comment by phyzix5761 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

phyzix5761 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:17:23 +0000

The majority of carbon offsetting efforts are called non-additional assets. A forest that was never going to be cut down or an unusable field in the middle of some rural area sells credits to companies to "offset" their carbon emissions. This doesn't actually create any net benefit to the environment. The industry also experiences fraud with double counting the same assets as some vendors will sell the same offset credits to multiple corporations.

New comment by phyzix5761 in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

phyzix5761 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:06:53 +0000

I appreciate this style of writing. Straight to the point. No 12 paragraphs about someone's grandmother falling in love in Italy with a plastic bag.

New comment by phyzix5761 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

phyzix5761 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:06:50 +0000

If the agent does everything for you it means it can do everything for the next person. At that point you're replaceable and have no value in your field. Learn things deeply even if you use AI because its the deep knowledge workers that will keep getting hired.

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

phyzix5761 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:02:07 +0000

There will definitely be jobs in the future because as most companies reach a level playing field regarding the capabilities of AI they will need humans to build the next generation of innovative products. But these jobs will change into some synthesis of product owner and software engineer.[0]

[0] https://arkvis.com/blog/2026-04-26_the-future-role-of-engine...

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

phyzix5761 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:55:26 +0000

Its the same picture for all of them. Why load different half a megabyte images for each pi?

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

phyzix5761 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:56:21 +0000

Price's Law says that the square root of the total number of items or participants contributes to at least half of the results[0].

I've found this to be true in almost everything in life, including work and business.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%27s_law

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

phyzix5761 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:52:09 +0000

For some reason that reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2LvQUcwqc

New comment by phyzix5761 in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

phyzix5761 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:23:25 +0000

Yes, the guy with a PhD in Machine Intelligence, co-author of Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, which is universally considered the bible of the field, recipient of the AAAI fellowship award and the Turing Award, and the inventor of Temporal Difference Learning doesn't know what he's talking about.