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AI and Training PhD Students

jjgreen — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/515026/ai-and-training-phd-students

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609379

Points: 2

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New comment by jjgreen in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

jjgreen — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:35:04 +0000

Well, not the only way: widespread slaughter would probably work too.

New comment by jjgreen in "Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic film"

jjgreen — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:32:18 +0000

Irony is lost on the senile

New comment by jjgreen in "Intellectual Fly Is Open (2025)"

jjgreen — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:16:11 +0000

It does, submitters can edit/revert those changes and they stick

Reform UK's Nigel Farage 'disgusts' Dexys Midnight Runners for using their song

jjgreen — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:08:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/general/reform-uk-s-nigel-farage-disgusts-birmingham-s-dexys-midnight-runners-for-using-their-song/ar-AA2bCzx3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577289

Points: 3

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New comment by jjgreen in "Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation"

jjgreen — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:45:20 +0000

I'll be using that

New comment by jjgreen in "US urged to consider military strikes to stop China achieving AGI first"

jjgreen — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:16:14 +0000

If you can't compete ...

PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries

jjgreen — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:48:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/09/04/postgresql-19-connects-the-dots-with-standardized-graph-queries/5294500

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565467

Points: 2

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New comment by jjgreen in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

jjgreen — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:55:50 +0000

It's not stupid when you realise that NaN is not "not a number" but rather "not a particular number", this becomes clear from

  hypot(Inf, NaN)

being Inf rather than NaN

Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere

jjgreen — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:47:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-spot-an-uncannily-geometric-10-sided-structure-in-saturns-atmosphere

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549877

Points: 108

# Comments: 39

New comment by jjgreen in "The British state has lost the argument"

jjgreen — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:56:15 +0000

That it is humane and morally correct to not follow the rules of justice in some cases, one of those being excessive punishment. I believe that this was the motivation in the subject trial -- I would have acted in the same way. In the UK this is a "perverse verdict", judges and government don't like them, but there's not much they can do about it except restrict trial by jury (which is exactly what the UK government is planning to do).

New comment by jjgreen in "CERN Transitioning to Debian After Being a Longtime RHEL Institution"

jjgreen — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:54:35 +0000

Just in time for the slop transition ...

New comment by jjgreen in "Apple Joins Google in Renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America""

jjgreen — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:36:57 +0000

Think different.

New comment by jjgreen in "The British state has lost the argument"

jjgreen — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:36:11 +0000

Thought experiment: You are a juror in a case where a minor is accused of small-time theft, some cans of Coke. There is video evidence, clearly they stole. In the two cases

- the punishment is a small fine

- the punishment is the amputation of both hands

does your verdict depend on the expected punishment?

New comment by jjgreen in "How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections, According to a Whistleblower"

jjgreen — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:32:21 +0000

Time to start quoting "democracy" chaps ...

Spice Bag

jjgreen — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tasteatlas.com/spice-bag

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512036

Points: 1

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New comment by jjgreen in "The British state has lost the argument"

jjgreen — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:52:44 +0000

The usual rules don't apply when terrorism is called: The UK has free speech, except terrorism, the UK has a jury-based rule of law, except terrorism, ... you get the idea.

New comment by jjgreen in "The British state has lost the argument"

jjgreen — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:43:18 +0000

An interesting comment by Craig Murray on the related Filton case:

This is an extraordinary new legal strategy by which the sentencing for ordinary criminal charges may be radically increased if the judge, and the judge alone, decides there is a terrorist link post verdict. The jury has no say on whether there is a terrorist connection or not, and the judges hide from the jury the possibility of this happening at all.

But the public are not stupid and do not live under a rock. The jury sent a note in the second Filton case to the judge Patrick Field asking him whether there would be sentencing under “terrorist connection”. Field replied to the jury that this was “not your concern”.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/08/of-judges-ju...

New comment by jjgreen in "Neovim Removes DHH Quote"

jjgreen — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:45:13 +0000

... following a rather ill-humoured discussion https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501

New comment by jjgreen in "Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types"

jjgreen — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:36:38 +0000

Nice page, but odd that they have O(...) in every row, surely that belongs in the column header