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by vrtx0 2y ago
Absolutely. Truly innovative research and projects are always fascinating to me. But even generalized to AI/ML, I can’t think of anything more recent than GANs (2015), Transformers (2017), and maybe AlphaFold 2 (2021)… Just my personal
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by vrtx0 2y ago
So, I’m real, and just trying to offer constructive feedback for a few errors I believe I noticed. I could be wrong though —- could you be specific? I don’t want to misinform anyone…
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by vrtx0 2y ago
I provided a copy/paste from the site about the envp array size you asked about. I clarified why I mentioned fork(). I tried to explain the difference between registers and variables. I’m not trying to show off or bring anyone down… I
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by vrtx0 2y ago
x20 is a general purpose register; optimizing compilers can use it for any number of variables, immediate values or intermediate computations at different points within that same function — or none at all (the variable ep could be optimize
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by vrtx0 2y ago
Let me try to help: 1. If a process crashes and dumps, be sure to look at the system log of the cause (e.g. SIGSEGV, OOM, invalid instruction, etc.) 2. Be certain you’re looking at the right core dumps — I believe UID 1000 just means posix
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by vrtx0 2y ago
I don’t see any merit, honestly. That would assume one is able to audit every bit of code they run, including updates, and control the build system. I mean, the Wally paper contains enough information to effectively implement homomorphic en
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by vrtx0 2y ago
Sorry, what do you mean by “proprietary details”?
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by vrtx0 2y ago
Do you mean the ability to search in Apple Photos is “privacy-bruising”, or are you referring to landmark identification? If the latter, please note that this feature doesn’t actually send a query to a server for a specific landmark — your
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by vrtx0 2y ago
Thank you! This is exactly the information the OP seems to have missed. It seems to confirm my suspicion that the author’s concerns about server-side privacy are unfounded — I think: > The client decrypts the reply to its PNNS query, whi
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by vrtx0 2y ago
Is the Apple Photos feature mentioned actually implemented using Wally, or is that just speculation? From a cursory glance, the computation of centroids done on the client device seems to obviate the need for sending embedded vectors of pot
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by vrtx0 2y ago
Whoa, very biased article (especially for LWN). Only cites media coverage; no links supporting that Amazon, MSFT, Google, etc. were in fact EEE’ing (or at best, behaving unethically) with each of these projects. It even suggests cloud provi
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by vrtx0 3y ago
I think “including, without limitation, […]” applies to the breadth of components, not depth, right? I mean, I’m not a lawyer, but that seems to be what syntactic context and logic indicate… no? If you disagree, could you indicate the relev
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by vrtx0 3y ago
Er, I could be wrong, but I think you’re missing the scope set in the first sentence: If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the… SNIP …programs that you u
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by vrtx0 3y ago
The cloud provider wouldn’t have to, if you are the one running your infra. The SSPL restrictions only apply to businesses that offer MongoDB as a service. In fact, you can build a similar service and offer it within your organization (an
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by vrtx0 3y ago
No, full list is in the license, but it’s only those components that they provide MongoDB as a service to end users. Doesn’t penetrate OS abstractions AFAICT, but I’d check the license and/or consult an expert if starting a relevant b
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by vrtx0 3y ago
I could name more, but let me clarify something. I’m not a fan of the SSPL, but I get why it was necessary. It was rough seeing huge cloud providers profit off open source projects without giving anything back. When they offered competing h
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by vrtx0 3y ago
Er, if you develop the infrastructure to host MongoDB, you should absolutely be able to open-source that infrastructure. I mean, before MongoDB, I wrote a cluster management system for virtualized software security and hypervisor research,
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by vrtx0 3y ago
Er, why can’t you run a MongoDB replica set on your M1? I mean, I wouldn’t recommend running a ReplicaSet on the same host on any production host (it defeats the purpose), but for testing, I’ve run a sharded cluster w/ 3 replicas per s
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by vrtx0 3y ago
No, the term “open source” was in use before long before the OSI, and it was in popular/hacker culture in the 1980s. UNIVAC used it in for a major system in the 1950s. [1] I used it in 1993 (I wrote a small BBS). The OSI looks and soun
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by vrtx0 3y ago
MongoDB’s source code is still freely available. It’s still actively developed in the open on GitHub. Unless you’re offering MongoDB as a service, it’s just as “open source” as ever. If you want to offer MongoDB as a service, you can still
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by vrtx0 3y ago
Ah, interesting… I think the discrepancy is where we’re looking. FWIW, I started my career at AOL-Time Warner in Florida in the late ‘90s. Management was all “good ol’ boys”. Definitely no role models anywhere. (I was closeted at the time).
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by vrtx0 3y ago
My perspective as an openly gay male with 20+ years of experience in software security, systems programming and distributed databases: Tech companies tend to be extremely supportive and welcoming of talent from diverse backgrounds. My proud
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by vrtx0 3y ago
IMHO, this just seems to be another polarizing piece of clickbait, rehashing the pointless “RMS vs. ESR” diatribes. The author frequently posts in support of the OSI (applied for a seat, endorses their “we get to define open source” nonsens
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by vrtx0 6y ago
Projects that change from Apache or GPL-like licenses to SSPL are still open source. This doesn’t mean you have to release your source code if you use these projects — only if you start selling a hosted platform that offers the software a
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by vrtx0 6y ago
Same here. Seeing heavy packet loss to most (but not all) sites that route through verizondigitalmedia.com.customer.alter.net in NYC.
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by vrtx0 6y ago
With all due respect, dictionaries can certainly define the term. They create definitions based on examples of the word's use, and Oxford English defines it as: "Denoting software for which the original source code is made freely
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by vrtx0 6y ago
If you don’t believe the SSPL is open source, then you definitely don’t believe the GPL (and related licenses) are open source. The definition of open source Amazon points everybody to is not the same as what’s defined by the FSF and other
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by vrtx0 6y ago
If time permits, please read through thread in the “SSPLv2 being withdrawal by its stewards” section. Specifically, the SaaS grab Eliot mentions. Unfortunately I wasn’t involved in the discussions with Amazon, so I don’t want to speculate o
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by vrtx0 6y ago
Nobody wants the SSPL (not even MongoDB), but Amazon is forcing companies to do this while contributing nothing. These projects are still open source, and actually contribute to the libraries they depend upon. As a former developer of Mongo
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by vrtx0 6y ago
Wow. Amazon is blatantly misleading people here. They know the SSPL was created specifically because MongoDB had the same issues with Amazon’s service. I worked for MongoDB. Nobody wanted the SSPL, but Amazon was relentless. MongoDB’s cloud

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