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I ported biscuit-java to Kotlin for an internal project. In the course of doing so, I went from a naive superfan to a somewhat grizzled advocate. Here's my high level summary:

Why Biscuit instead of JWTs?

tl;dr, Biscuit (and Macaroons) can attenuate, JWTs can't.

Read: https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/

What does this mean? Let's say you're given a token to access System A and B whenever and however you want. You can create a new token from your token that only gives access to System A for the next 5 minutes.

Basically: attenuation gives a capability system.

Why Biscuit instead of Macaroons?

tl;dr Biscuits are easier to understand (and implement) than Macaroons.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFv62qz8R

Macaroons are clunky and hard to work with in practice. That's probably not a feature you want in your choice of token technology.

Biscuits contain simple facts and clear policies written in Datalog.

Why NOT Biscuits?

Immaturity.

- AFAIK there is no compliance suite for all the Biscuit libraries linked https://www.biscuitsec.org/; and as such, unsurprisingly, there are corner case incompatibilities, especially in the authorization language parsers and Datalog expressions/operators.

- The Datalog runtime limits are user-defined. What is the maximum number of facts, application iterations, or even timeouts? That's up to you.

- Biscuit v2 (v3-4 in the proto) is the Official Latest Version. Some of the libraries support the older versions to varying degrees.. and the way that backwards compatibility is implemented gave me pause.

- Whole sections of the specification are `TODO`.

- The Datalog data types are bounded by the underlying protobuf definitions; and the libraries use the language native data types. There are casts and undefined behaviour at the extremes.

- Many of the libraries do little things like calling the equivalent of `Time.now()` internally. IMHO this sort thing should be stateless.

- There's heaps of tests, which is great! But, I didn't see any fuzz or property tests, which is less great.

In Summary...

Biscuits neatly package several simple and solid technologies: datalog, ed25519, protobufs. Once the ecosystem is mature, it'll be incredible.
They already take performance hits left and right with all those containers running all over the place, parsing JSON.
lol we certainly have lobbying in Australia, they just apparently keep a lower profile than American lobbyists do.
They're fine with subsidies when it suits them.
Thats one of reasons why LLC (Limited Liability Company) was invented.
... 32 bit cpu
Eeven 0.1% scaled accross all users is a huge amount of wasted energy. You can profile without subjecting everyone to frame pointers.
"""thereby ensuring that both camps would sneer at me equally."""

In modern polarized environment you have to be hot or cold. In this example you either have to be AI doomer, or not. Nuances are not allowed, you will be voted down by both sides of argument.

People flock together in groups and sneer at one another with superiority.
For those of you who don't speak Catalan, "sargantana" is a common little local lizard (Podarcis hispanicus, "Iberian wall lizard"). Of course the chip family (Lagarto) just means "lizard" in Castilian.
I summon a Waymo car every few days, and it takes me from point A to point B for about the same price as an Uber or Lyft. This only works so long as point A and B are both in San Francisco, but for an average person in San Francisco with access to the app, self-driving cars are already here. You can argue that person isn't average for a number of reasons, but the cars are real and giving rides to members of the general public.

https://youtu.be/-Rxvl3INKSg is a news reporter's video of taking a ride in one, so you can see what it's like to ride in one. She's a news reporter and thus not your average person because she has access to Waymo because she's a reporter, but members of the general public are also getting access and are able to do this as well. After watching that, I think a reasonable average person could believe that self driving cars are here.

As was said upthread, the future is here but unevenly distributed.
A1 is a parent of A2, and A2 a parent of A3.

A1 has a genetic trait that makes old age a terribly painful experience, and the moment of death a horrifying ordeal. Far worse than what most experience.

A2 becomes scared of death. As A2 gets older, they behave chaotically because of the trauma from watching A1 die painfully and the fear that they’ll experience the same fate.

A2 does not take good care of A3.

I hope this example (unscientifically) shows that there are likely some strong trends toward genetic traits that support a peaceful end of life period.

I suspect there are also multigenerational trends toward older members dying before they become a drain on a tribe’s resources. An obvious historically-useful benefit, that now leaves us worried sick about our aging parents (that they’ll slip and fall, and activate the “end of life” phase, where they’d have passed away if it weren’t for medical intervention).
> ... Eh? Trains, to be clear, are not big polluters; not sure what made you think that.

Modern diesel engines yes, but the old ones? They got barely any emission controls, only for locomotives built after the 90s there is regulations [1]. On top of that comes brake dust [2] which is only irrelevant in powered-car electric passenger trains with regenerative braking - every other train releases insane amounts of it, no surprise given that the brakes have power outputs in the megawatt range.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engin...

[2] https://www.railwaygazette.com/vehicles/reducing-brake-dust-...
What is the difference between a gig worker versus a freelancer? Is this going to hurt your ability to be freelance? I would love to understand this better in the proposal as it wasn't clear to me how they define this difference.
then you surrendered enforcement to only those with market exploited money....whose incentive is to fight against rather than enforce it...

This is why governments tend to enforce as they tend to minimally align with protecting the individual since they loose tax revenue if they do not...
Yes but I think OP was referring to the lack of pressure. Without gravity, no pressure -> water will violently boil.
RAG Project

Coming soon!

=(
[Submitter here]

I think -- but do not know -- that the key thing here is that this is a Chinese made chip on a Chinese made motherboard with a Chinese chipset. And, of course, they have the source code to all the software, because it's FOSS.

It doesn't matter if the performance is great and even less the price/performance. All that matters is it works and it's usable.

So, if -- for instance -- the PRoC invaded and annexed Taiwan and all the silicon fabs in Taiwan were suddenly unusable, the rest of the world would suddenly have a big problem. No more AMD CPUs, supply problems with Arm SoCs, and RAM and flash and chipsets, so even if you could still get Intel CPUs, without readily available RAM and so on, the ROTW couldn't build cheap mass-market PCs any more.

But PRoC could.

Which makes the invasion of Taiwan a much better bet. It'd hurt China but not as much as it would hurt everyone else.

And since now the West is distracted from Ukraine by Hamas-v-Israel, Russia is getting away with it. That makes PRoC-v-RoC even more likely.

That even brings Korean War II into sight over the horizon.

:-(
Here's a pre-print paper I found:

Sargantana: A 1 GHz+ In-Order RISC-V Processor with SIMD Vector Extensions in 22nm FD-SOI

https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/384912/sarga...

RV64GC with a subset of the v0.7.1 vector extension. 1.26GHz nominal clock on a 22nm process.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/grouppol...
Any benchmarks? Does it compares to Intel/AMD at raw power? Does it compares with Apple at efficiency?
Yeah, those helmets that are basically face shields with optional hard hat and neck hood are generally speaking fairly comfortable: wide FOV, zero difficulty breathing, and an entire face shield (not just eye "shield") almost casually integrated.
As long as you're working where you dare to go without full-on SCBA, a high-enough-tier variant of the e.g. 3M face shield helmets will suffice.

Bonus points for being able to easily just run an external air hose feed into the helmet when working in environments that don't kill you if you dare to take the helmet off in an emergency.
Not yet, but when they do, each railroad tie (railway sleeper) will have a serial number printed on it and can only be replaced with genuine Apple® railroad ties.
> Who would argue without the implicit desire to convince/convert?

Me? I'm an engineer, when I 'argue' with my co-workers, it is with the goal of finding the best solution. I don't care whose solution it is. I want to find consensus on what is the best solution.
In Tavis' blog post he explains it:

> In general, if the cores are SMT (Symmetric Multithreading) siblings, then you may observe random branches, and, if they're SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) siblings from the same package, then you may observe machine checks.

[...]

> However, we simply don't know if we can control the corruption precisely enough to achieve privilege escalation. I suspect that it is possible, but we don't have any way to debug μop execution!

The exploit they published crashes the machine, but it may be possible to write one that does other things, they just don't know how.

Actually useful blog post: https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5997221712101376/the-rept...
It certainly acts like a singular point if you measure it and have it scatter on stuff...
I believe the word you're looking for is quantum - the "point" still has a radius, a singularity does not.
C64 Demo: Eyes by Fairlight (2023) [video]
Eh? I mean, that's just reality. Generally, if you're a dictator, and you screw up sufficiently, you either end up in exile (not a great option for Vlad for a variety of reasons) or you get murdered. That is how it works; occupational hazard. The war is _absolutely_ an existential threat to him personally.
IEC 61131-3
What you mean by "breaking inside"? You cannot nest ternaries, but you can chain them (see my other comment above).
> I think sometimes, growing up in the West, we accept the dogma of separation of state and religion without really asking how true that really is. In reality, Christianity is deeply intertwined with most European constitutions and state apparatuses.

I disagree. It is not complete, nor does anyone pretend it is, but it is far greater and fairer than in western countries than in the rest of the world (such as the examples I gave). Can you imagine the reaction if a British Prime Minister said that the Prime Minister should be a Christian? Or if we started arresting people for belonging to a non-state approved religion? Or parliament passed laws banning religious conversion? Or turned a bling eye to mod attacks on religious minorities?

The first and third in Germany would not bother me as they are opt-in. The second seems entirely wrong.

In the UK I do not find state schools being run by Christian organisations a problem, because it is not discriminatory - there are state schools run by other religions too. Collective worship is a weird law but compliance is not monitored and most schools do not actually do it, singing is not really a act of worship, parents can opt children out, older children can opt themselves out, and in religious schools it is their religion (actually, these are the ones which will have an actual act of worship).

I do agree we should have greater separation between the state and the church of England. On the other hand there are benefits to it. I think C of E bishops in the House of Lords broadens representation in politics beyond the political class (they have a good track record of speaking up for the poor), and even more so as representatives of other denominations religions are included (e.g. two of the last three Chief Rabbis) although not enough IMO.
Yes, as of August 2023:
https://blog.kagi.com/accepting-paypal-bitcoin
Only some factions of capital use that rhetoric, and often don't even mean it.

Capitalism is only maintained through state power exercised by the capitalist ruling class.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/...
I will try to explain.

My learning of TLA+ was ad hoc from reading existing code and just "playing with the TLA+ Toolbox".

It's not obvious why a particular menu item, or particular sentence is important. A reference table of menu items is less useful than a walk through of how to use pluscal.

I literally had some TLA+ code that wasn't running how I expected then I went to pluscal.htm and then that screenshot made is SO obvious that there was a missing step required in my mental model of how TLA+ works.

A beginner to IntellIJ needs to be taught that the "Play button" is what they're looking for, and a screenshot puts that into context.

Blender is a complicated piece of software, if you had text based descriptions of that tool - I wonder how useful that would be to understanding where similar functionality is placed. Compared to a screenshot WITH CONTEXT.

My case highlights how even what seems like a trivial screenshot can actually help people contextualise something that is basic to you.

Do basic features go in context menus, toolbars, or hidden in menus.

The text "Go to File -> Translate TLA+ algorithm" would be missed if it was in a big document in the middle, as if it's just a fact.

The screenshot says "This is important, pay attention".
>22nm FD-SOI

That's kind of not good news. I was hoping for 4nm to have some alterative to Intel/AMD/Apple.
It's a cool idea, but it looks incomplete for the production use case.

1. Usually, you want to run some warehouse all the time. Bring their data through ETL, run transformation, and report. This goes against the local environment. Ideally, I would love a cloud warehouse, which each engineer could easily fork to their laptop.

2. Almost all companies already have some data setup. The migration path is very unclear. Most likely, this is a secondary system for the majority of companies. Ideally, I would love to describe how I can use it along big platforms (e.g. BigQuery or Snowflake).
I complelove this website. A great resource.
hi i'm the maintainer of litellm
- we persist rate limits, they're written to a DB: https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/virtual_keys

- LiteLLM Proxy IS Exactly Compatible with the OpenAI SDK
Natural stone are expensive and a luxury items. They are not the alternative to engineered stone really. Engineered stone are bought by middle-class, and thus in much higher number. The alternative being usually plain wood.
It's an interesting point. Where do my responsibilities end as a consumer? I suppose "inadvertently participating" is qualified by the degree to which you believe it is likely that buying a more expensive product also causes negative externalities. (I am assuming I am meant to use price as an indicator.) If I believe that this is also highly likely, by paying more, I am simply giving more money to the exploiter. Is it not worse to reward them more for their actions?
> If a worker gets sick, they could sue for damages,

Maybe I’m misreading it, but from the article, comments here, and linked alternative readings (as well as very limited personal experience), the issue could be that the workers themselves are actively not participating in wearing PPE. I know this sounds like blaming the victim, but if that is truly what’s happening (and I’d appreciate information explaining the opposite), why should the workers get to sue someone else? Is the PPE not effective enough?

Or are you suggesting that allowing the employee to sue would create incentives for the employers to actually enforce the workers use PPE?
Jumia to cease food delivery business in seven African countries
I don’t know about hobbyists but
there are less known companies doing open source hardware for sure, [1] here is an example of cool stackable parallel computing project.
I participated on the campaign and received mine, but not sure how are they doing today, it was a while ago.

Edit: Andreas Olofsson the original founder seems to be still active in the field [2]

- [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-s...

- [2] https://x.com/zeroasic?s=21&t=xSlFhUGn5i8d8RkXrsgAIg
You had to pay for the monthly service, as well as PURCHASE the games. I was an early adopter and when I realized this was the business model I knew it was not going to succeed. $10/mo + $60 for a game, and as soon as I stop paying for the service I can't access my purchased game anymore.
What is an app? You can make shortcut to any script inside Termux. So I have dozens. Handiest one is an "app" that repeats my phone number aloud, because when needed I never remember it.

while true; do
termux-tts-speak -l fi "5 5 5 1 2 3 4"
sleep 1
done
This is a super unhelpful comment, but I'll respond. I worked on several JVM projects going back almost 20 years. No, we aren't. One principal sin the JVM made is that the JDK initially had no modular structure, and everything it needed to do natively was done in the JVM with native methods, because it had to be; the JVM was the only system with the privileges to do syscalls. As a result, the JDK was only really complete on about 2 VMs. With WALI, syscalls and all logic to implement higher-level APIs moves up, out of the engine. Engines can be complete and run an entire stack with no special support.

If you could resist the urge for snarky, dismissive comments we could have a more productive discussion.
The BSC has been featured a bunch of times around here due to their Marenostrum Supercomputer. A month ago someone posted a virtual visit to their Marenostrum 4 location, that's kinda surprising/interesting because is located inside an old chapel:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160675
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MareNostrum_4_supercomputer_at_Barcelona_Supercomputing_Center_1_br.jpg

Their Marenostrum 5 is number 8 in the TOP 500 supercomputer list ( https://www.top500.org/system/180238/ ) and I think it recently started working or it's about to do it now ( https://www.eetimes.com/bsc-about-to-dispatch-marenostrum-5-... ) . They had to change its location as it didn't fit in the church anymore, though.
This sounds like the way the 8087 and 8089 (look that one up!) co-processors worked: they snooped the instructions the 8086/8088 CPU read from memory and then handled their own subset of the instruction set. That did require that they could reconstruct the program flow from instruction fetches, which probably became nigh impossible when CPUs started integrating instruction caches.
I thought we were talking about CUDA here?
Engineered stone has been around for 60 years by now. Something tells me they weren't tracking silicosis cases as diligently back in the 1960s as they are today. Most likely, cases are up because they are better diagnosed and tracked today than before engineered stone was a thing.

I don't understand how you could possibly draw this conclusion based on the evidence we have.
A was not using Perl as an argument, I am just much more familiar with Perl than C, so I wondered if the ternary operator works differently in C than in Perl, making it more problematic/less useful.
Water is increasingly becoming something we can't waste as easily as before in many parts of the world.
TBH I gave up on book 1 of the Rifters. :-(

Loved Blindsight, loved the Things, but DNF B-Max.
I'd love you provide some evidence that it actually happened for Austria Hungary.

Coming from a successor states that's not what our history says, so I'd love to hear your better sources.
Do you have a screenshot? I didn't even recall that there were black people in Donkey Kong.
H&R Block launches AI tax filing assistant
Interesting. It'd be nice to know if they're going to focus on HPC loads or hobby/consumer too. I should check to see if I still know people around the BSC :P
Supersonic passenger jets have another problem, the Concorde demonstated it: it made so much noise countries forbid it from flying over their land.
Vosshall Named 22nd Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize Recipient
It’s an Apple TV show and those props definitely gave me an old-school Apple computer vibe. Now I’m wondering how intentional it is
all clinical data clearly shows that alcohol kills way more than cigarettes. Alcohol drives the rates of most cancers that end up killing people.
Well, both use channels, as did Occam, Joyce or Newsqueak even before. But my library uses kernel threads (Pthreads, Win32 threads), no coroutines, nor user mode scheduling. So there is little in common with Alef or Plan 9. But there are indeed C libraries which do that; mine has other goals.
> I can't think of many industries that didn't see direct help from the government in one way or another.

That might be a necessary evil but has nothing to do with Capitalism. Throughout the time we've seen different degrees of government involvement in the market. Capitalism claims the less government involvement, the better. There can be a discussion if a purely Capitalistic market (0 government involvement) can exist but claiming government helped industries are the result of capitalism is just wrong.

Capitalism is financial democracy. The market (aka the people) vote with their money. If a company goes down, that's ok, another one will replace it if it was a company that produced a necessary product. The Government getting involved in this process is very anti-capitalistic. Takes away the freedom of people to vote with their money and instead incentivizes companies to ignore the people and just lobby and play the system that the government put in place. So calling that Capitalism when it's the very thing Capitalism tries to avoid is an anti-truth.
It is in an in-order CPU. It is meant for tasks where prediction and robustness are important. More like hard-ish realtime stuff in nasty environment (or... security? ahem...)

RISC-V moving forward. Good.
I just spent the last few days building parts of a SPA with vanilla js. It was a great reminder of why React exists.
One of my business partners works for PKP it's very annoying to see this all unfold and in this particular way. Poland has so much potential, these idiots are ruining Polands image in ways that really matter.

But then again, as a Dutch person I have enough issues locally that I can't even complain...

Ugly times.
Integrated Set of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Object Recognition in Primates
Tools like Dagster, dbt, and AWS Glue always strike me as built for BI/in-house analytics over user & app-generated data.

What do people use for ingesting data from end-users, their transactional CRUD to it too, and then OLAP queries triggered (not written) by and for those same end users?
To be clear, I am all for thesis/antithesis/synthesis in argument. I use it all the time at work.

However, without some form of positioal oposition there can be no argument.
The existing toxic stuff was made offshore. It’s not the manufacturing that’s the issue, it’s the cutting to size. You can’t do that offshore. Indeed, in some circumstances cuts are made on the building site.