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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…

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 anyon…

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 variabl…

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 f…

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…

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 contain…

Sorry, what do you mean by “proprietary details”?

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 actua…

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 thin…

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 s…

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 unethicall…

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…

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 …

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…

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 lic…

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…

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…

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 …

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 i…

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 eve…

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”. Defin…

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 supportiv…

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…

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 …

Same here. Seeing heavy packet loss to most (but not all) sites that route through verizondigitalmedia.com.customer.alter.net in NYC.