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New comment by Veelox in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

Veelox — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:20:58 +0000

My explanation for the lack of shared experience is very language dependent quality. I work in Go and it's gotten really really good. I have to pick the right abstraction and it can be overly verbose at times but it can make in 5 minutes what would have taken me an hour.

New comment by Veelox in "Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes"

Veelox — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:11:15 +0000

Ahh, so it was a customer pain point of higher latency so they were happy to see latency go down and throughput go up. Good to hear.

Great write up, cheers to the people involved.

New comment by Veelox in "Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes"

Veelox — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:05:34 +0000

Thanks for offering. In the graph labeled "Prod customer throughput: (higher is better)" eyeballing it within a week you are seeing ~2k qps peak increase over the previous week.

Operationally, how do you handle landing that large of a perf improvement? If my data store changed that much in a week it could break something.

New comment by Veelox in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

Veelox — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:45:49 +0000

Where have you worked? I have been at a lot of places and I have never seen people consistently checking in 2 PR/day every day.

New comment by Veelox in "More Everything Forever"

Veelox — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:29:51 +0000

>mandatory ... college level

I'm curious what your experience is with the world that makes you think every citizen is capable of completing college level classes. People with an IQ of 85 or less are like 15% of population and I think most of them with have a very hard time with high level logic.

New comment by Veelox in "I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car"

Veelox — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:08:31 +0000

A few thoughts. One is that not all of christendom subscribes to the view that it was literally one man, some take a less literal view. Second, a vast majority of human suffering is down stream of human decisions. Yes it is possible for an omnipotent being to stop all suffering but I would argue it would remove all moral decision making from humans which is important.

New comment by Veelox in "In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants"

Veelox — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:35:17 +0000

This general consensus is part of why Trump gets support for his recent trade and defense comments and actions. Also, from an economic perspective the US has been successful and has poured that success into different buckets than Europe would prefer but that's fine, let the US be the US and let Europe be Europe.

Numbers for anyone curious US gdp per capita ~$82.7k EU gdp per capita ~$41.1k

New comment by Veelox in "Ask HN: Voting Data Source by County?"

Veelox — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:49:11 +0000

That is awesome. Thank you.

Ask HN: Voting Data Source by County?

Veelox — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:22:34 +0000

It would be really nice to be able to download the a CSV of voting for each presidential election broken by county or zip code or something of the sort. My google skills are not good enough. Does anyone know of such a data source?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42066789

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New comment by Veelox in "Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director"

Veelox — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:47:58 +0000

The US government spent $6.1 TRILLION dollars in 2023. I don't think raising taxes is the solution to the government offering a more competitive wage.

New comment by Veelox in "The Timeless Parable of Mr. Market"

Veelox — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:00:02 +0000

Dilution happens when the majority of share holders agree to a issue more equity. Again, this is a fully agreed to and is part of the standard rights of share holders. Early employee are given documents that explain this and sign. Can you explain this is illegal taking of property?

New comment by Veelox in "The Timeless Parable of Mr. Market"

Veelox — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:45:13 +0000

When did the stealing happen? There was mutual agreed exchange between parties over and over again.

New comment by Veelox in "Ask HN: What is not going to change in future?"

Veelox — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:38:38 +0000

I don't see a world 50 years from now where writing SQL isn't needed.

New comment by Veelox in "A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled Copyleft Trolls (2022)"

Veelox — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:57:14 +0000

When the decision is 9-0 and involves Trump it's highly unlikely they created their own meaning.

New comment by Veelox in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

Veelox — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:44:37 +0000

Our material wealth in the US is way way higher than it was in 1900 but people aren't happier. I don't think I agree that well of people would stop being happy. Unless you want to define well off in relative instead of absolute terms.

New comment by Veelox in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

Veelox — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:29:10 +0000

Just because it's widely accepted doesn't mean it's correct.

Paywall link Paywall link Makes a slight case but mostly just assumes inequality is bad.

New comment by Veelox in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

Veelox — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:22:16 +0000

I think it's a big stretch to point to all of those and say wealth inequality is the main reason all of those happen. For example, people were starving around the French revolution. With Germany I believe it was just as much (if not more) general depression and national embarrassment rather than wealth inequality. With Arab Spring you can point to poor leadership as opposed to innate wealth inequality. I'm not convinced wealth inequality is the underlying reason.

New comment by Veelox in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

Veelox — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:00:08 +0000

Your making a pretty broad claim with no evidence. Can you provide some evidence?

New comment by Veelox in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

Veelox — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:57:15 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to have a thoughtful reply.

I think pointing to wealth inequality as the reason there is increasing disconnection is a stretch. Yes it's a factor but I don't think it's the chief one.

Do you have a pointer to a resource that covers some of the more broad and subtle issues with wealth inequality?

New comment by Veelox in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

Veelox — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:29:33 +0000

> it's clearly horrible for society.

Would you be willing to articulate why wealth inequality is bad for society? I am fairly certain that wealth inequality globally is higher than it was in 2000. At the same time, well the poorest globally are doing much much better on average.

In my mindset as long as the median is improving and the poorest are improving, the ratio of rich to poor isn't important and isn't clearing a bad thing if the inequality is increasing. You seem to think otherwise, why?