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MBAs are the best, Plato knew this
> Admin interface available on the internet

This is the bad part. Frequent password resets suck.

Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:11AM (#50335772)
Not quite the speed of light (in a vacuum) if your watching signals propagate along a conductor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_veloci...

Re:Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:37AM (#50334395)
I look like U+1F642 when I smile genuinely
> Anyone with concerns should contact their provider, but the responsibility cannot rest with customers alone.

Best of luck contacting your provider

Re:Emacs Turns 50 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:32PM (#50279582)
They had ELIZA and then the Emacs doctor, the rest is just scale.
Re:Emacs Turns 50 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:30PM (#50279540)
According to `git blame` the oldest surviving code in GNU emacs is:

    lisp/play/studly.el
being unchanged since 1986-09-12.

(It is said the Stallman maybe have kept some of Gosling's older code but I haven't gone back that far.)

Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:51PM (#50249017)
Effort (as it's used in the context, how many "thinking" tokens to burn) is still a free variable. It's not always shown to the end user but you can set it independently for any of these models.

After that you just have model "strength" and version number. But of course strength is only comparable at equal version number and the two axes are almost parallel.

Anthropic also does this, perhaps to a lesser extent.

Even the hammer?
Not if you take advantage of open-weight models and make an adaptor or distill its knowledge into the thing you want.
We don't need Dropbox, it's a heap of shit.

With enough marketing you can sell anything. Also a decent way to make a product is to do the hard part for someone else.

I've been training classifiers for ten years, it used to be hard. Now it's hard to do really well but it's trivial to do well enough.

Re:Challenge Is Gone on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:41AM (#50231491)
> P.S. I am a human and can make mistakes. The spelling and punctuation in this post were corrected with AI.

There's a challenge for you right there. Learn to spell or learn to live with mistakes.

But they didn't all end up in a backwater like Ireland. Starting DIAS is cool, but presumably he'd have preferred the US.
This isn't a court, I'm just saying that such a thing is rumoured
It's "common knowledge" that that's why he ended up in Dublin
Re:Rule 30: one black cell on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:13AM (#50206316)
Slop
In order to "help" myself I have taken some of your money.

Feel free to opt out maybe?

Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:55PM (#50199521)
You take a class. Do you think coveting is immoral? Retributive justice? Human sacrifice?
Scorpio was cool
Bullshit. How would a website even detect a VM?
Every time I'm wronged I'll just throw a few thousand dollars at it? On the internet?
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:48PM (#50156306)
Sounds like it's Apple who's behind
Re:Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:35AM (#50151644)
Forecaster of the Confounding Company here :)

You're right but, if the time series looks like music then you can apply your music domain knowledge. You don't have to only apply knowledge that's general across every domain, part of the magic of large neural nets is that you can do recognition and prediction at the same time thereby using (statistically) things known from training about how to identify a sequence and then also how to continue it.

Sure adding outside info helps even more, but with enough data it should become unnecessary (or so goes the theory).

Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:01PM (#50125333)
> they are identical movies
Re:Show HN: How Random Are You? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:47AM (#50086164)
I think Zipf's law means you're biased towards odd in that case (unless you allow yourself to choose empty strings)
What about OpenHarmony?
Re:AlphaNIST on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:38AM (#50083831)
That is indeed the reference
Re:Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:35PM (#50047563)
What's this photonic Tiny Tapeout?
Re:Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:34PM (#50047547)
At milliwatt power, and terahertz frequency?

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