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dantillberg··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Yesterday, I resumed a former claude code session in order to copy code it had generated earlier in that session. Unfortunately, when resuming, it only prints the last N hundred lines of the session to the terminal, so what I was looking for was cut off.

I think that for this sort of _interactive_ application, there's no avoiding the need to manage scroll/history.

dantillberg··on RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
"Manufacturing Content" is such a stupendously fabulous multi-faceted pun, someone please make this real.
dantillberg··on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony
"sexually explicit content" and "child sex trafficking" are rather different things. Connected? Maybe? If you want to claim that Mark was lying, you've got to demonstrate the connection as part of the claim. Otherwise, it's a non sequitur.
dantillberg··on A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+
That's what I thought as well at first, but I've come to think that is just the cover story. While some of his base likely did buy in, I expect that _most_ of the inflows were from individuals or groups looking to influence the administration (aka bribes).
dantillberg··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Clearly a human, or a human running a bot. Doesn't matter which.
dantillberg··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
We should not buy into the baseless "autonomous" claim.

Sure, it may be _possible_ the account is acting "autonomously" -- as directed by some clever human. And having a discussion about the possibility is interesting. But the obvious alternative explanation is that a human was involved in every step of what this account did, with many plausible motives.

dantillberg··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Well, that's neat. TIL. Thanks for the link!
dantillberg··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Not 24/7 in low earth orbit, but perhaps at an earth-moon or earth-sun L4/L5 lagrange point. Though with higher latency to earth.
dantillberg··on Data centers in space makes no sense
But since building a datacenter almost anywhere on the planet is more convenient than outer space, surely you can find some suitable location/government. Or put it on a boat, which is still 100 times more sensible than outer space.
dantillberg··on Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say
Every agency has to show how relevant they are.
dantillberg··on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
I think part of the distress experienced by readers is due to mixing the fixed-width font with "text-align: justify". So it's close but not exactly fixed/consistent.
dantillberg··on Show HN: I audited 500 K8s pods. Java wastes ~48% RAM, Go ~18%
This has to be malware in poor disguise.

Curl-bash without hash-checking from a four-month-old domain with full k8s cluster access? All the identities connected are brand new, including the brand-new HN account that posted this. There are four commits in the repo, and three are back-dated to exactly 1 year ago.

dantillberg··on Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over
I appreciate the defense of doctors wages for great work; I would agree that many doctors absolutely deserve it and more.

But this "semi-monopolistic trade union" not only inflates their wages (which maybe that's a good thing), but it also harms the lives of the population they purport to serve. Many (most imo) people in the US simply cannot afford the monopoly's prices, and the monopoly has little incentive to innovate. This cartel of doctors actively prevents lower-cost, more efficient alternatives from coming to market.

dantillberg··on OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
Prices of _everything_ went up over the past five years. Datacenter expansion was far from the main driver. Dollars and cents aren't worth what they used to be.
dantillberg··on Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon
> Financial claims against Milton are now void.

Presidential pardons do not limit or prevent private civil lawsuits.

dantillberg··on Trump Administration to Take 15% Cut of Nvidia and AMD Chip Sales to China
Current title is clearer: "Nvidia, AMD to Give U.S. 15% Cut on AI Chip Sales to China"
dantillberg··on A subtle bug with Go's errgroup
I'd say it's fair to call this a footgun, though not a bug. The context is really only intended to apply to the goroutines. And Wait has to cancel the context to prevent a resource leak.

I suggest in general using function scoping to drive the lifetime of contexts, etc. This works also for defers and tracing spans in addition to the canonically shadowed `ctx` variable.

There is an old issue in the tracker proposing changes to alleviate this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/34510. The original author (bcmills) of the errgroup package shared insight into the design choices/tradeoffs he made.

dantillberg··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
> These are seemingly smart people.

They _are_ smart people. There's more to the differences in perspective than "lib smart, maga stupid".

dantillberg··on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
If this story is true, this would appear to be a simple vector for hijacking email intended for other gmail users. Hard to understate the severity if true.

Have you tested whether you can receive email directed to firstlast@gmail.com? Perhaps theirs is really firstlastt@gmail.com and all their contacts "correct" it.

dantillberg··on Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites
> cannot be easily retrieved

This is I guess where the analysis gets fuzzy, where honest assessments may vary widely.

My gut instinct is that enriched uranium blown up underground (assuming it was even there) would take at most around a year to recover, by turning the site into an open-pit uranium mine. The product wouldn't need to be re-enriched from scratch, as simpler mechanical filtering could probably isolate much of the already-enriched uranium.

But perhaps it would be much harder.

dantillberg··on Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites
> Two of the people familiar with the assessment said Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed.

Is it even possible to "destroy" enriched uranium? It would seem to me that the most one might achieve by blowing it up with bombs is to spread it out a little bit.

dantillberg··on U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams
How is crypto relevant to betting?
dantillberg··on Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel
Last year, I submitted a "right to know" request to Subaru, and they sent the following back. I've reformatted it for legibility. Basically asserts they'll do and sell whatever they want (except another car to me).

> Subaru may collect the following personal information about a consumer:

> Categories of personal information:

> Identifiers: Consumer records, Commercial information, Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity, Audio recordings, Vehicle geolocation, Professional or employee-related information, Inferences, Sensitive personal information

> Categories of sources from which the personal information is collected: Retailers, i.e. authorized Subaru dealerships , Provided by consumer or vehicle, Third parties

> Business or commercial purpose for which Subaru collects or sells personal information: To provide services to the consumer, To market goods and services to consumers, To provide marketing by third parties for third party goods and/or services, To comply with legal obligation

> Categories of third parties with whom the personal information is shared: Business service providers, Contractors, Retailers, Corporate parent and affiliates, Third party providers of goods and/or services, Entities required to comply with the law

> Categories of personal information sold: Identifiers for third party marketing of goods or services., Consumer records for third party marketing of goods or services

> Categories of personal information disclosed for business purpose: Identifiers are disclosed to service providers, contractors, and third parties., Consumer records are disclosed to service providers, contractors, and third parties., Commercial information is disclosed to service providers, contractors, and third parties., Internet or other electronic information is disclosed to service providers, contractors, and third parties., Vehicle geolocation is disclosed to service providers., Inferences are disclosed to service providers and contractors., Sensitive personal information is disclosed to service providers and contractors.

dantillberg··on OnlyFangs has made 'World of Warcraft' into Twitch's best soap opera
Or if raiding with permadeath sounds a little far out, a more achievable goal might be to get to level 20. Someday I'll make it.
dantillberg··on Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
While your caveats are all noteworthy, I'll add that Hetzner also offers unlimited/free bandwidth between their datacenters in Germany and Finland. That's sort of like AWS offering free data transfer between us-east-1 and us-east-2.
dantillberg··on Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
This excessive inter-AZ data transfer pricing is distorting engineering best practices. It _should_ be cheap to operate HA systems across 2-3 AZs, but because of this price distortion on inter-AZ traffic charges, we lean towards designs that either silo data within an AZ, or that leverage S3 or other hosted solutions as a sort of accounting workaround (i.e. there are no data transfer charges to read/write an S3 bucket from any AZ in the same region).

While AWS egress pricing gets a lot of attention, I think that the high cost of inter-AZ traffic is much less defensible. This is transfer on short fat pipes completely owned by Amazon. And at $0.01/GB, that's 2~10X what smaller providers charge for _internet_ egress.

dantillberg··on The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
> deciding that this is the most relevant activity to keep doing at the moment, instead of doing math or going out for a walk.

How many bits of actual decision is going on here, as compared to the period of time that decision applies to?

For example, if a person decided once per second whether or not to go for a walk, that could be 1 bit per second. But if that person is constantly transitioning back and forth between walking and not-walking, we could consider their behavior pathological. Instead, for most people, the information density of these decisions is quite low, i.e. the per-second decision bits are very compressible.

Personally, I only decide whether to go for a walk (or not) _at most_ once every few minutes. Even if we add in bits for "where" and "precisely when" and "how long", I think we're still at just a small fraction of 1 bit per second.

dantillberg··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
There was a similar phenomenon a few years back in Colorado: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Colorado_drone....
dantillberg··on Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
This change only affects VPS services in the US, and for what it's worth, Hetzner does not offer dedicated servers in the US.
dantillberg··on Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak
> ... when they see entire church memberships filling out their ballots together ...

Are you able to cite any evidence for this sort of conspiracy, or is this mainly conjecture? My search came up short. While one can certainly imagine it taking place, particularly in smaller groups, I expect there are both federal and likely also state laws that would make such activities illegal. At the very least, it would seem hard to hide at scale.

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