<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: geocar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=geocar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:24:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=geocar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geocar in "English: A vs. An"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the 16th century, being "on the money" meant an arrow or a dart being on (or near) a specific physical coin (i.e. <i>the</i> money), like in a tossing or shooting bar-bet.<p>Being on merely <i>a</i> money (or <i>some</i> money) would likely not be as impressive in said circumstances, and so whilst being grammatically possible in English, it shouldn't seem so likely the sort of thing anyone would ever have had to say.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773453</link><dc:creator>geocar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geocar in "English: A vs. An"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With context these can mean different things. You might also play a piano, or hire either a player piano, or a piano player.<p>If you are answering which instrument you play, it's the former, but if we are talking the profession it's the latter, because you <i>don't</i> say then that you play a piano.</p>
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<p>Try making it with "a" - if thing can be "a thing" then it could be "the thing" but if it can't be "a thing" it definitely can't be "the thing" either.</p>
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<p>Hi I want to explain that arxiv is not "publishing a paper" - it's a step up perhaps from putting it on your own website, but this is not what is meant by professional academics when they talk about "publishing" (even when they work for big AI companies).<p>Your "papers" have only a single author and no current citations. It is not clear you are able to work with other people. The papers claim to offer results but no theory about why those results are the best possible. They read like sales whitepapers not scientific work. Reddit comments on the thread you linked to said they weren't able to reproduce your work.<p>I'm not looking to buy magic beans for my sales team.</p>
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<p>Okay, wait a minute.<p>There were zero Hebrew Bibles at that time.<p>The Bologna scroll is found seventy(ish) times in greek and hebrew (and other languages) in the Qumran caves, along with a bunch of other stuff. Each of those times is a greek-literate persons' "bible". And they're all a little different. And they have their own notes in them too. They were probably paid to do it. At least some of them said they were rabbis.<p>Biblical scholars don't consider "The Septuagint" (Egyptian) to be any single translation and why they use the term "Majority Text" and stuff like that, to justify grouping all that stuff into "their" New Testaments'.<p>If it were possibly so simple as that, there probably wouldn't be so many forms of christianity.</p>
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<p>> Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism.<p>You may enjoy the "map" on page two:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081031050603/http://www.tniv.com/about/docs/English%20Bible%20History%20-%20part%201.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20081031050603/http://www.tniv.c...</a></p>
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<p>I don’t.<p>My software gets done.<p>The idea that it would suddenly not be done because the compiler upgraded sounds like a potentially limitless amount of future work. Why would I want to invest in something that promises that?</p>
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<p>A lot of this is just wrong; the only things they got right is that I can read English and I have an iPhone.<p>I’m surprised it got my timezone and location wrong. I’m less surprised they miscounted the number of speakers and my brand of gpu so confidently.<p>A big problem with being so wrong is I can’t use this to show anyone how tracking works online, because this is nothing like how tracking is actually done on line.<p>On the other hand, it’s a great advertisement for Apple.</p>
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<p>Cool story bro.<p>I've got an emacs uptime measured in years, so I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm happy that you're happy.</p>
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<p>There were no Brythonic languages 15,000 years ago.<p>What are you talking about?</p>
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<p>It's possible to determine good values automatically: Measure your typing speed.<p>You can do it in the background with:<p><a href="https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/emacs-keylogger.html" rel="nofollow">https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/emacs-keylogger.html</a><p>and periodically update the latency parameters to be just over your natural typing speed.</p>
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<p>Bullshit.<p>Ain’t no way you read one 100 page paper let alone two with enough understanding to make such a claim.<p>You ought to be ashamed of yourself.</p>
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<p>He seemed to know a lot about what was going on in the state of the art despite not being a fluid dynamics expert or having any in “the project”, and absolutely nothing about what his own employees did with Tristan.<p>The most uncomfortable piece is where he shows screenshots “proving” his earnestness is unrewarded instead of the chats that are actually being complained about.<p>That he does so with tremendous gymnastics is perhaps soothing to investors, but every researcher I show this post to today says “see I knew ‘AI’ would steal my research”<p>So yeah, maybe we are reading different things.</p>
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<p>> printing has never really been a thing from text editors I think.<p>It's always been a thing: We programmed on paper before we had screen editors, and so early screen editors have always had a way to murder trees on demand:<p>In vi it's :ha<p>In emacs it's M-x print-buffer<p>> It has been a while since I printed a plain text file, but I guess there's still a similar command available with some research.<p>`lp myfile.txt`<p>I still prefer using hardcopy for reading/debugging.</p>
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<p>> The core reason to enforce trademarks is not to fluff the corporation that holds it but to let the public be confident in the name.<p>Nonsense. The core reason to enforce trademarks is to prove that you have it.<p>The yo-yo used to be a trademark too, but the problem was what else do you call it? If the "owner" of a trademark cannot defend it, they don't have it. That's how trademark law is very different than copyright (which is implicit and automatic): You can lose a trademark even if you register it and popularise it, if you can't prove that the trademark represents your actual trade.<p>> [I think] the trademark should hold for as long as a reasonable person can be confused by the new Twitter regardless of people's dislike towards Elon.<p>That's your opinion man. Thankfully the law doesn't work that way.<p>I don't even know whether you mean X (the new thing that was once twitter) or tweet (the new thing that claims to will-be what twitter once was)<p>> I may be biased because I still go to Twitter via twitter.com.<p>and that didn't help in the slightest, but domain squatting is very common on the Internet.</p>
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<p>What exactly do you think the difference is?<p>If you have an LLM add 2+2, it is doing a tremendous number of additions and multiplications it doesn't have to, same as us, and I am not sure the LLM can answer any more questions about that process than we can about ourselves.</p>
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<p>> It's never made sense to me that so many go players study AI go play in the hope of emulating it in a human game.<p>> We're not machines. We can't do thousands of Monte Carlo tree searches per second.<p>You sound so sure of that, but I have seen people catch a ball, and I am not so sure that any artificial person should be any more aware of the tremendous maths they are "solving"<p>From the perspective of a game with far fewer rules, "trying to imitate AI" might not mean anything like what you are thinking.</p>
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<p>Ok, so "ad tech" is basically situations where someone pays you to run their ad network, like a newspaper or a magazine or something who sells their own ads to people. Google used to call this "Doubleclick for Publishers" (DFP) and don't anymore to be confusing, but I am going to use the old names so it is easier to tell you what each part of the business does.<p>When someone sells "ads" they are selling the placement itself. When advertisers buy this, they use "AdWords" or "Doubleclick for Advertisers".<p>Many DFP users got a checkbox one day permitting Google to sell ads and checked this. As a result, Google was able to outcompete _every_ ad publisher, and now "ad tech" doesn't make money buy "ads" does.<p>Google is right that they cannot separate them, but is lying about why: Neither unit would be profitable without the monopoly, because quite frankly if someone else could sell ads <i>without</i> sucking a ton of money off the top to make a failing self-driving car company, they would and simply win on price.</p>
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<p>We also have revenue. They're a public company.<p>You can look all this stuff up yourself.</p>
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<p>Does it now.<p>Azure's cost of revenue is someplace between 14% (Productivity and Business Processes) and 36% (Intelligent Cloud). Software is 1%.<p>Looks to me like Software pays for the whole thing.</p>
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