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New comment by oscaracso in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

oscaracso — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:19:01 +0000

I am reminded of the Simpsons episode in which Principal Skinner tries to pass off the hamburgers from a near-by fast food restaurant for an old family recipe, 'steamed hams,' and his guest's probing into the kitchen mishaps is met with increasingly incredible explanations.

New comment by oscaracso in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

oscaracso — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:58:59 +0000

Your attempts to smuggle your conclusions into the conversation are becoming tiresome. Profiling a private company's computer program is not impactful research. The best-fit parameters AI people call scaling exponents are not properties like the proton lifetime or electron electric dipole moment. Rest assured, there remain scientists at universities producing important work on machine learning.

New comment by oscaracso in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

oscaracso — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:51:13 +0000

>marshalling in the end of human involvement in science

Good riddance! But not relevant in the least.

New comment by oscaracso in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

oscaracso — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:34:50 +0000

I am not a software engineer, although I do write programs. What is it about digital infrastructure that requires maintenance? In the natural world, there is corrosion, thermal fluctuation, radiation, seismic activity, vandalism, whathaveyou. What are the issues facing the arxiv demanding the attention of multiple people 'round the clock?

New comment by oscaracso in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

oscaracso — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:12:00 +0000

Universities are also not suited to test which race car is the fastest, but that does not obviate the need for academic research in mechanical engineering.

New comment by oscaracso in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

oscaracso — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:27:46 +0000

I was substantiating my claims and you were not.

New comment by oscaracso in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

oscaracso — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:41:52 +0000

I do not agree with your unsupported claim. For example, I would bet no good games have been programmed in Haskell. As far as I am aware, no great games have been made with the Unity or Unreal engines.

New comment by oscaracso in "US Job Market Visualizer"

oscaracso — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:13:12 +0000

I do not see how the facts you present call into question the basic logic that as you increase the availability of a commodity, say labour, you anticipate its price to diminish. All of the immigrant workers could be better-compensated and more productive than all of the American workers, and still their presence could drive the price of labour for native workers in that sector down. E.g., if there is a shortage of repairmen certified to fix some medical equipment, introducing a glut of new repairmen who are even more productive will fail to reduce the compensation of the incumbents only in exceptional circumstances.

New comment by oscaracso in "US Job Market Visualizer"

oscaracso — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:38:21 +0000

I was surprised to hear in this thread that there is a physician shortage in the US, because my understanding was that most Americans go to university and that doctors are paid well. Why aren't more graduates pursuing careers in medicine?

It turns out that they are, but (if I do not misread the situation) there is a regulatory bottleneck:

>The United States is grappling with a physician shortage, but the solution does not lie in simply opening more medical schools. As a physician-scientist and former founding dean of a medical school, I argue that the true bottleneck is not the number of medical school graduates but the insufficient number of residency training positions. Since the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which froze the number of Medicare-funded residency slots, the United States has seen a steady increase in medical graduates, yet the availability of residency spots has stagnated. This mismatch between undergraduate medical education (UME) expansion and the lack of corresponding growth in graduate medical education (GME) is the key issue.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12256077/

As this has been the arrangement since 1997, by now a graduated American child of an immigrant H1B specialist trained in a foreign country may be unable to secure a 'residency training position' and therefore unable to practice medicine in his or her own country? It sounds absurd.

New comment by oscaracso in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

oscaracso — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:08:00 +0000

I am not convinced that that matters. Great games have been made with Godot (Cruelty Squad) and GameMaker (Sexy Hiking), or with no engine at all (Minecraft, Cave Story).

New comment by oscaracso in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

oscaracso — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:53:07 +0000

You gave the guy prompting the bot the respect of reviewing his 'work' and he just gave you more LLM output, lol.

New comment by oscaracso in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

oscaracso — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:29:44 +0000

The power of a judge should never exceed scolding and recrimination.

New comment by oscaracso in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

oscaracso — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:43:07 +0000

Thanks; I missed that and almost sullied my mind reading an argument formulated by a potential adversary to the United States of America.

New comment by oscaracso in "Digg is gone again"

oscaracso — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:36:39 +0000

Your prose is poor so it is no wonder. Half the words you use are superfluous, some are nonsensical, and you beg the question.

New comment by oscaracso in "Elite Overproduction"

oscaracso — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:59:53 +0000

The Economist only wants what's best for China. (As the article is paywalled, do they discuss the positive externalities of this glut or only the difficult labour market?)

New comment by oscaracso in "Elite Overproduction"

oscaracso — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:55:36 +0000

Thank you for giving him the lesson on etiquette. I was going to do the same but you beat me to the punch, so instead I will just upvote you and move on without further remark.

New comment by oscaracso in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

oscaracso — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:02:49 +0000

You should ask the language model that output this text the definition of 'whataboutism,' and if the comment you've posted responds meaningfully to the discussion at hand.

New comment by oscaracso in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

oscaracso — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:11:26 +0000

It is a considerably larger threat for anonymous strangers to be able to establish private lines of communication with children than for them to know that Lisa Simpson (8) lives in Springfield and attends Springfield Elementary. In terms of discovery, most people are already aware that children can be found in school.

New comment by oscaracso in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

oscaracso — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:15:58 +0000

Your link and description of it as a software company are irrelevant to the discussion, which concerns their retention and use of personal data. I welcome anyone to give their disclosure a critical reading. (They promise to follow the law- whew!)

https://www.palantir.com/privacy-and-security/

New comment by oscaracso in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

oscaracso — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:48:10 +0000

If the author cannot write then he should not write.