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New comment by kikoreis in "How virtual textures work"

kikoreis — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:33:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

New comment by kikoreis in "Learning from context is harder than we thought"

kikoreis — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:24:22 +0000

> Without any context provided, the state-of-the-art model, GPT-5.1 (High), is only able to solve less than 1% of tasks. This starkly demonstrates that the data is contamination-free, as the model is almost entirely incapable of solving the tasks without learning from the context.

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[With context provided,] on average, models solve only 17.2% of tasks. Even the best-performing model, GPT-5.1 (High), achieves just 23.7%.

New comment by kikoreis in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

kikoreis — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:05:22 +0000

Swofy makes a little media player that has physical buttons; the crowd here at home really likes them: https://a.co/d/9icRCCs

New comment by kikoreis in "A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland"

kikoreis — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:43:11 +0000

Your comment made me think of Charli XCX's recent post https://itscharlibb.substack.com/p/the-realities-of-being-a-...

Who was the actress?

New comment by kikoreis in "It's not always DNS"

kikoreis — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:58:52 +0000

Resolver limitations, as opposed to server or protocol issues, are in my view the main reason why "it is always DNS".

New comment by kikoreis in "Fast"

kikoreis — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:37:27 +0000

Oh it's lwn.net for me!

New comment by kikoreis in "OpenAI is building a social network?"

kikoreis — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:33:24 +0000

(Stretching a definition of social network.)

Not strictly but Debian, where member inclusion is done through an in person chain of trust process so you have clusters of people who know each other offline as a basis.

Also, most WhatsApp contacts have been exchanged IRL, I presume.

New comment by kikoreis in "Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight"

kikoreis — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:39:18 +0000

Through regulation?

New comment by kikoreis in "Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet"

kikoreis — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:13:33 +0000

Well yes but headscale?

New comment by kikoreis in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

kikoreis — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:18:38 +0000

Perhaps even stranger, MinIO have publicly stated they have revoked an Apache 2 license grant to a third party, Weka: https://blog.min.io/weka-violates-minios-open-source-license...

Not sure what their counsel is thinking there..

New comment by kikoreis in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

kikoreis — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:12:19 +0000

That's interesting. I was reading their licensing compliance FAQ at https://min.io/compliance and it doesn't allude to that; in fact it suggests that for instance calling a REST API doesn't imply derived work (modulo the specificity piece), referencing the GPL. The omission of the over-the-network AGPL provision is notable. I wonder if it's obscure on purpose?

New comment by kikoreis in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

kikoreis — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:09:11 +0000

Nah, the AGPL is pretty clear (and way clearer than the GPL and LGPL due to combined/derived work fuzziness). The issue with it isn't anything to do with the mechanism of the license itself, because it is pretty clear what the criteria are (and offering an API over the network definitively constitutes Remote Network Interaction) and how you can fulfill the source distribution. The real issue is that the AGPLv3 doesn't preclude a third party from commercializing the software (whether modified or not).

New comment by kikoreis in "Accident Forgiveness"

kikoreis — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:50:12 +0000

> I can explicitly cancel a subscription after a certain date—what is the problem with me explicitly cancelling a subscription after a certain amount of spend?

As someone also involved in billing systems for public clouds: in theory there's no difference, but in practice there is a world of difference. This is the sort of situation where the end user is commonly surprised with the consequences of their own decisions. At MGC we have some "soft shut down" processes, and we constantly hear stuff like "I know I said shut down, but this is the one situation where that really didn't make sense"; where examples are "storage which keeps backups became unavailable", "a very simple but critical user auth system disappeared", "I had no idea this was still running on my account", or "OMG not in the middle of the weekend", etc. You can build heuristics and tracking into the system to minimize these situations, but that's a lot of work.

So yeah, it is a valid use case and something many CSPs would like to provide, but implementing something that is actually better than nothing is non-trivial.

New comment by kikoreis in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

kikoreis — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:53:57 +0000

Well, the comment from OP isn't necessarily complete. The AGPL is not about preventing someone from using source code (indeed that would be contrary to the spirit of all liberal and copyleft licenses), but rather the condition under which source code modifications need to be made available.

Specifically, if you offer the software for "Remote Network Interaction" (AGPLv3 section 13), well, "if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version".

I think the original challenge with AGPLv3 vs (to grossly generalize) the VC-backed open source corporate ecosystem was not around source code, but around monetization as SaaS by the hyperscalers. The problem there is even if the hyperscalers publish source code modifications (which they probably have no problem with) they have such sales efficiency and gravitational pull that they will end up eating your business.

New comment by kikoreis in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

kikoreis — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:44:58 +0000

What could go wrong?

New comment by kikoreis in "Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM"

kikoreis — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 04:25:59 +0000

What does the risk classification applied to the dataset actually mean? The licensing page [1] AI2 provides for their datasets is really nice but it doesn't really explain [2] what risk means in the context.

Does it mean "risk that the items contained in this set are licensed in a manner incompatible with its use in a training dataset"?

[1] https://allenai.org/impact-license

[2] "the AI2 ImpACT Licenses are artifact-agnostic and are instead structured according to the risk level we’ve assigned a given artifact"

New comment by kikoreis in "Firmware Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) Proposal"

kikoreis — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:59:50 +0000

I think "[automated] disassembly" has a different implication than reverse-engineering; the latter usually involves more depth in the analysis of the binary, usually including more semantic-level considerations (i.e. this block is meant to do this, or this function is used from these different callsites). The best examples of this type of analysis seem to exist in the security community when going into the detail of zero-days, exploits, etc. I think LLMs either already can or will soon enter that space.

New comment by kikoreis in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

kikoreis — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:48:46 +0000

"danger abstraction too high, big brain type system code become astral projection of platonic generic turing model of computation into code base"

New comment by kikoreis in "Evolving ArangoDB's Licensing Model for a Sustainable Future"

kikoreis — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:09:33 +0000

Given my history I'm definitely not a fan of this madness in the licensing space. But I am also willing to acknowledge that the 1P vs 3P bomb set off by the public cloud incumbents will continue to yield damage to the open source startup ecosystem until something changes.

New comment by kikoreis in "Firefox address bar"

kikoreis — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:51:13 +0000

That's fixable via browser.urlbar.trimURLs: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/881261