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New comment by 19f191ty in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

19f191ty — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:22:41 +0000

No, it's not the most important part. It can be argued that most important part is asking the right questions

New comment by 19f191ty in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

19f191ty — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:33:38 +0000

Accurate username

New comment by 19f191ty in "Panipat: The rise of the Mughals"

19f191ty — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:13:48 +0000

One reason is financial. At its peak the Mughal empire was the largest economy in the world. Estimated to be about 25% of global GDP. That's close to the position US occupies in the modern world.

A $250M War Game and Its Outcome

19f191ty — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:54:11 +0000

Article URL: https://mackenzieinstitute.com/2023/11/a-250-million-war-game-and-its-shocking-outcome/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594552

Points: 3

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New comment by 19f191ty in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

19f191ty — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:24:19 +0000

Exactly abuse of citations is a much more prevalent and sinister issue and has been for a long time. Fake citations are of course bad but only tip of the iceberg.

New comment by 19f191ty in "Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020)"

19f191ty — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:29:18 +0000

That is the actual trick. To master one trick so well that you can spot anywhere its hiding. Unfortunately, this takes a long time, which is why most mathematicians can only do it for a couple of tricks in their lifetime

New comment by 19f191ty in "Apple explores robotics in search of life beyond the iPhone"

19f191ty — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:31:17 +0000

With what happened when Google bought them, I doubt if Apple can handle thenlm. Hyundai feels like a much better fit. Japanese companies have had a longer history with robotics and less insistence on short term profitability.

New comment by 19f191ty in "Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M"

19f191ty — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 01:54:51 +0000

I've reported am explicitly Temu ad a million times and it still keeps appearing. I don't understand why they even have the report feature if they're not going to do anything about it. Feel so helpless.

New comment by 19f191ty in "The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative"

19f191ty — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:29:54 +0000

Koo was never thriving.

New comment by 19f191ty in "Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation"

19f191ty — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:31:18 +0000

This is what I was thinking. If it's mostly fine scale mechanical agitation one is after then there are many ways to do it. An ultrasonic cleaning machine being the closest in spirit to their approach.

New comment by 19f191ty in "DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC"

19f191ty — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:38:40 +0000

I'm aware, that's why I counted just 25 (active) hours per week.

New comment by 19f191ty in "DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC"

19f191ty — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:37:40 +0000

It's not just any job though. Food delivery is amongst the lowest skilled jobs, while research is amongst the highest. Also, good for you that you lived super well But not everyone is comfortable living with 5 roommates.

New comment by 19f191ty in "DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC"

19f191ty — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:32:23 +0000

Assuming a delivery worker works 5 hours a day for 5 days a week, that's roughly 35,916 usd. As a PhD student that hits hard.

New comment by 19f191ty in "The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation"

19f191ty — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 04:34:20 +0000

That is not an autocorrelation. The OP is equating linear dependence with autocorrelation, which not how we use that term. Autocorrelation is when a random process is correlated with time lagged version of itself.

New comment by 19f191ty in "India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia"

19f191ty — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:07:00 +0000

Well there you go, so it seems there were records of the word's usage around 1820s. Nice job. I can tell you one thing though. In colloquial Persian, achar for pickle is not used. It sounds odd and usually signifies some relation with Indian style pickles

New comment by 19f191ty in "India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia"

19f191ty — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:58:23 +0000

Yes, languages chage and all, but words rarely completely disappear. If achar was originally Persian, then it has completely disappeared from modern Persian, which is bizzare.

This is how you spell achar in Persian, اچار. Find me a dictionary that has an entry for this word. You'll find it in Urdu dictionaries (same spelling), but not Persian, even Afghani Persian, which is much closer to Urdu. You know why that is? It's because achar is NOT a modern Persian word. And by modern I mean last 1000 years or so. It couldn't have been a Persian loan word because there are absolutely no references to it in Persian, at least in the last 1000 years. There's no credible evidence at all to that claim. Just some blog articles and non-experts parroting the same claim with zero knowledge of Persian or even most Indian languages.

As to the real etymology. I don't know man, not easy to find. You can Google Ayurveda and achar, that's all I got. Can't find the original Ayurvedic sources either. You sound like you know some vedas and Sanskrit. Would be great if you can lookup what pickles are called in Ayurveda. In the modern lingo, Ayurvedic pickles are also called achar. And Ayurveda products usually keep their original naming. I don't know of any example where they prefer a colloquial word over an Ayurvedic word. So they calling it achar seems to me that the word predates Ayurveda.

You're right, I couldn't find references to achar in Vedic Sanskrit or Avestan. So it's probably not that old. Although, it could be that those texts didn't bother writing about everyday things like pickles. If those texts mention pickles, but use a different word than achar, then one can claim that pickle wasn't called achar.

New comment by 19f191ty in "India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia"

19f191ty — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 01:55:10 +0000

I am not proposing any etymology. Just wanted to point that achar is not a loan word from Persian. It's not even the primary word for pickle in Persian actually (achar also means pickle but it sounds very odd in Persian, not an everyday word for pickle). That's what ticked me off about OP's comment. Pickle in Farsi is Torshi, especially in the Farsi that Mughals spoke (central Asian dialects). Afghans still call pickles torshi and not achar. On the other hand, my Nepali friends call their traditional pickles achar, and they have near zero Perso-Arabic influence in their vocabulary. In summary, there is no evidence that achar was a word brought in by the Mughals.

I couldn't find the etymology for achar, but I found references to classical Persian (Avestan) and Proto-Indo-Iranian. Apparently Ayurveda mentions achar, so it's possible that at some point there was a distinction between medicinal pickles and popular everyday pickles.

Nobody knows of course, but to me it's likely that achar has ancient origins, possibly in old Indus Valley or Gangetic Plains. In either case, history of pickle in Indian subcontinent and words used to describe isn't as simple as a loan word.

New comment by 19f191ty in "India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia"

19f191ty — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:12:04 +0000

Achar is not a Persian loan word in Hindi. Just because it's similar to the Persian word doesn't mean it's a loan word. Ancient Persian (Avestan) and Sanskrit were extremely similar to each other (basically the same language). So there are many old concepts and ideas that have the same words in the two languages. Achar is one of them, it's possibly a much older word.

New comment by 19f191ty in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

19f191ty — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 22:14:53 +0000

Interesting journey for all of you then. Why did Moneycontrol sue? I wish they had the foresight of buying the tech from you guys instead? The interface really was ahead of its time then. They could have used that.

Cool! What are you doing with climate?

New comment by 19f191ty in "Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager"

19f191ty — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:22:47 +0000

I remember that! I really liked it. What happened to it? And what are you upto these days?