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danielklnstein

277 karma · joined October 21, 2023

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danielklnstein··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Missing a (2025)

FYI VSCode's SSH Agent is a godsend for remote development - the "disadvantages" that Fly lists are part of its advantages. I've worked in several teams that have made extensive use of the extension, and it's never been an issue. You can restrict SSH access arbitrarily to ensure whatever security or access guardrails you need.

danielklnstein··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
From that same article - "The agency said it has identified nine crashes potentially linked to the issue, including one fatality and two involving injuries. It is also reviewing six additional crashes that may be related."

Fifteen crashes - though not to be trivialized - is not a damning number at all in this context. What's more, per the article it's unconfirmed that the crashes are related, so it's hardly fitting to dismiss Tesla's approach based on this.

I think it's great that serious efforts are being made in different approaches to autonomous driving - and in this thread's context, it seems possible that Tesla's approach might eventually be revealed as the optimal approach given modern AI.

danielklnstein··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
That incident and article is from ten years ago.
danielklnstein··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
FYI, I might be missing something but I think your billing system might not be working well - I'm not seeing any indication in the UI that my usage is being deducted from the $5 of free credits.
danielklnstein··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Works much better now! Got 103.9 tok/s, not quite 200 - but still amazing! Thanks for sharing
danielklnstein··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
I tried in your playground and got 14.2 tok/s?
danielklnstein··on Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator
This is a boggling level of disdain for customer security - even putting aside the insanely low levels of data security, it's mind boggling that the website remained up for months after the disclosure, and that even after being taken down the vulnerability remained open.

Great post!

danielklnstein··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
In case you ever decide to return to AWS, its Cost Explorer is far from perfect but it can show you where your expenses are coming from, especially if your costs are pennies. In the last re:invent they even released daily granularity when grouping by resources (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/...).
danielklnstein··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
Yeah, I see what you mean - that'd indeed render this method ineffective. Like you said I'm sure this would bother a lot of customers, but it's not a completely unrealistic overhaul of S3 pricing.

That being said, that'd be sort of "mean" of AWS to do - the data is already replicated across AZs whether you pay for it or not because of how S3 works.

danielklnstein··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
Thanks for the feedback! I don't think it's nitpicking, you're right that it's misleadingly phrased - in fact, the only S3 costs I observed weren't storage at all, but rather the API calls.

I updated the phrasing.

danielklnstein··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
I'm not sure how this could be removed - the fundamentals behind it are basic building blocks of S3.

Maybe raising the cost of transient storage? e.g. If you have to pay for a minimum of a day's storage - but even if that was the case this would still be cost-effective, and at any rate it seems very unnatural for AWS to charge on such granularity.

+ I would guess that S3 is orders of magnitude more profitable for AWS than cross-AZ charges, so I'm not sure they'd consider it a loss-leader.

danielklnstein··on Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
This is great for saving on S3 storage costs!

But in the context of data transfer costs, this would actually increase the costs, because there's a small surcharge for Intelligent Tiering - and the only relevant storage class for sidestepping data transfer costs is standard storage (because it's the only one with free download), so Intelligent Tiering won't provide value.

danielklnstein··on Serverless at Scale: Lessons from 200M Lambda Invocations
I understand the sentiment behind your frustration - but it's worth noting that these support tickets are usually answered really quickly.

Specifically as it relates to Lambdas there's solid rationale behind these limits, but I agree that in many other cases the limits seem arbitrary and annoying.

danielklnstein··on Six Great Features with the Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel
As another comment explains - the vast majority of drivers are not compiled as part of a standard Linux distribution.

If you're asking why so many drivers are included in Linux's mainline repository and not maintained off-tree - the major advantage of being upstreamed is that changes to the kernel have to take your driver into account as well. e.g. anyone who changes any APIs will have to update your driver as well.

Moreover, being upstreamed certifies that your driver has gone through a non-trivial review process to be merged into the mainline and is an indication of quality/stability.