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throwaw12··on Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To
I personally love the idea and concept, but struggle to apply to real projects.

Suppose I have a User with some attributes like birthday, email and whether they have been verified.

in common codebase, you can see `if (user.verified_at != null)` or something along the lines, in case of parsed code I do feel like I should have types for each of them (or interfaces):

    - UserWithBirthday
    - VerifiedUser, UnverifiedUser
    - UserWithEmail, UserWithoutEmail
(and imagine having a method which accepts user with birthday and email to send an email day before their birthday, would you create UserWithBirthdayAndEmail type?)

it feels like it is going to bloat the interface space, how do you tackle this problem?

throwaw12··on Can China build its own ASML?
> Their cars and phones are still second rate

What have you tried so far on a daily basis to say this?

Have you tried latest Huawei models?

By the way, Foxconn makes iPhones, does it count as Chinese quality or not?

throwaw12··on Can China build its own ASML?
I wholeheartedly wish China achieves it sooner.

US sanctioning GPUs to China, then blocking access to latest SOTA models will impact everyone in the world negatively.

We need competition, Europe is not an option anymore, hopefully Chinese labs will keep open sourcing SOTA models

Based on the trend, if China wins, everyone benefits, if US wins, only Americans will benefit and everyone else will suffer

throwaw12··on Modern GPU Programming for MLSys
I am a product engineer in yet another enterprise SaaS CRUD shop, who wants to learn more about the landscape and find the way to enter it eventually.
throwaw12··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
Other things as well degrade naturally, some faster, some slower, some depending on the use.

I am fine with that characteristic of the purchase, I am not fine when my purchase can be taken away from me abruptly by the decision of random Joe

throwaw12··on Modern GPU Programming for MLSys
So many frameworks are being built.

What are the state of the art frameworks in ML programming area? Similar to what React is for web and tailwind for CSS

Triton, ONNX, JAX, PyTorch, cublass, .....

I know they might be for different purposes, but having some idea what is for what and when to use would be helpful

throwaw12··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
> DVD deteriorates to the point of becoming unreadable

If I am the reason for damaging my purchase then I am fine with that characteristic of the purchase.

Same happens with books, you buy the copy and if you don't take care of it, soon it will become unreadable.

throwaw12··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
its not about whether you can shock anyone, if anyone is driving cars outside, you can't say you have SOTA-horse to go from A to B.

When models are good, expectations are adjusted accordingly to deliver things on par with the whole industry, you can't just say, I have built my own Intel Pentium II, now I will try to use it to compile Electron App and run 3DS Max there

throwaw12··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Anthropic and OpenAI: Dear Uncle Sam, it seems laptops became too powerful, can you please do something

Uncle Sam: For national security reasons starting from now on every purchase of GPU model with higher than X Petaflops will need written permission by the US president

Anthropic and OpenAI: Look poor citizens, we are willing to share our capacity with you in limited form, by using our LLM you can avoid spending 35 years in the waiting list to buy a GPU, by the way, to simplify pricing, here is our new pricing with 5700% increase. Enjoy

throwaw12··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Instagram is worse, but when you talk bad about Israel in Instagram they can delete it, it wasn't easily possible in TikTok
throwaw12··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
For some conspirational reasons, I am thinking that this was the part of the deal between Anthropic and US government, all buzz was for PR, but behind the closed doors Anthropic asked US to regulate the LLM space
throwaw12··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
> I can train insainly powerful models on my laptop

Can you?

throwaw12··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
I think OPs point wasn't specifically about how to preserve and recover the books, but about how something unimaginable, can happen and can our sci-fi writers come up with such unimaginable now, but possible in the future plot.
throwaw12··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
> facing the Muslim states of the Middle East.

if true, then choosing this name was a very bad decision.

Imagine how Muslims would feel, demonizing them even more, before they were terrorists, now they are attacking open source and hence some organizations need akrites to defend from them.

I really wish such organizations which try to demonize anyone, to fail miserably

throwaw12··on Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?
I really didn't get it, how is dark factory better than vibe coding whole day and not looking at code?

If dark factory indeed worked, shouldn't StrongDM print a new unicorn startup every month?

throwaw12··on Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG
its good that there is a competition in framework space, but does anyone have holistic view or opinions about their differences and where they shine?

For example,

* there is LangChain and LangGraph - used a lot, but framework bloat is hated as well

* mastra - for typescript projects

* pydantic, agno, strands, openai agents sdk, claude agents sdk, and so on and on and on

throwaw12··on Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
> grok build is going to be the future coding model of choice

This is a BIG statement, especially considering current benchmark scores, can you expand more, why do you think so?

throwaw12··on Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?
corporate lobby is getting more powerful, needs of corporations put above human needs, people are getting laid off to boost stock price, even though company is still making billions, top 1% is getting even richer, housing is getting more expensive, government is doing nothing to punish people involved in child sex trafficking, foreign tiny state is dictating how to conduct diplomacy to a superpower.

if trend continues, I am not optimistic.

throwaw12··on Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
Couple years ago the West was complaining about surveillance and scoring system of citizens in China (or was making fun of it)

Seems like US wants to get ahead on this and be #1

Also Sam Altman will love this idea, because he already tried it with Worldcoin

throwaw12··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
doing 2x 3 times already gets you almost 10x increase
throwaw12··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Developers who can code without LLMs will go extinct in couple years and there will be legends about them, you should at least have some decent open weight model as a backup
throwaw12··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Imagine a future where Anthropic holds your company hostage because no one can code properly anymore by hand and demands paying 200% higher price for the usage.

What can your company do?

throwaw12··on My Mathematical Regression
> If his monetary value to the company was as said why would any other metric like complexity even remotely matter

Here is why: I turned off a feature flag in our feature flagging service which saved company 10% infra cost, do you think I can be promoted to Staff+ and lead 50 engineers?

Promotions and/or recognitions in corporate environments works differently.

I don't agree with it, but this is how it works: If what you did feels simple, anyone else can do it as well, why should we promote you for finding such silly mistake or improvement.

throwaw12··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
> The part that gets me about anthropic red lines is "of Americans", okay so the rest of the civilized world is up for grabs then?

And this is coming from a CEO who constantly claims moral superiority and advances the idea that China is bad

throwaw12··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
I know what you are trying to do here with a new account (probably part of IDF unit for spam). Also checked your other comments, its solely about defending Israel and attacking Palestinians
throwaw12··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
> I get almost physically ill when I hear about kids getting harmed.

This is how Israel's war radicalized me, I stopped watching videos, but they made me depressed, burned out, angry, because everytime I watched videos, my brain started asking "what would I do if this happened to my kids, would I join Hamas? probably yes"

I got burned out from these thoughts

throwaw12··on Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation
I read it as a pledge to continue doing non-AI-LLM-slop work. End result could be interesting for everyone, on one side project with no-LLM policy and on the other side projects which heavily rely on LLMs.

In the short term we might not see the benefits, this pledge reads like: "Please keep doing what you are doing now, I am interested in how far it goes" (not in any negative sense)

throwaw12··on Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions
may I ask where did you get the list? I am looking for ways to get involved in going little more deeper on LLMs (I have very high level understanding, but my direct work doesn't involve them, hence I am not familiar with deeper details)
throwaw12··on Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
Looks like their instruct models are Llama3.1 fine tune from last year. Is there any progress on new models?

My last hope for soverign AI is from Chinese open models

throwaw12··on Identity verification on Claude
I hope EU bans US models and adopts Chinese models, since US models seems to be a clear threat to EU sovereignty, while Chinese models can be deployed anywhere
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