Hacker News: Veliladon

New comment by Veliladon in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

Veliladon — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:09:00 +0000

>Compare to Santa Clara, which has their own well run utility, and charges less than half PG&E rates.

This. Lived in Santa Clara. SVP is the best utility in California.

New comment by Veliladon in "We Need VAT and UBI"

Veliladon — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:53:01 +0000

We don't need a VAT. Taxes on consumption are insanely regressive.

Put a tax on the value of land instead of the property improvements. Then you'll start to see some wealth flow away from the UHNWIs.

New comment by Veliladon in "We need to add 6k seats to Congress"

Veliladon — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:23:52 +0000

Yep. Take every seat, make it 15 seats. Ideally we’d have ranked choice and STV. Something like how Australia has a quota system for Senators being elected. People who achieve 1/16th of the votes get a seat, distribute preferences, repeat until all seats are full.

New comment by Veliladon in "Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M"

Veliladon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:26:56 +0000

The problem is that open codecs can still be encumbered by patents and the holders will sue. VP9 and AV1 have their own patent pool for that very reason. Google may have open sourced its codecs but if they don’t indemnify users people who think they’re safe might be in for a bad time.

New comment by Veliladon in "America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out"

Veliladon — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:05:47 +0000

The electorate does give control but they get bored after a few years and want to wreck everything all over again. It's goldfish levels of political memory in this country.

New comment by Veliladon in "How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?"

Veliladon — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:52:57 +0000

Getting pristine resampling is insanely expensive and not worth it.

If you have a mixer at 48KHz you'll get minor quantization noise but if it's compressed already it's not going to do any more damage than compression already has.

New comment by Veliladon in "Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study"

Veliladon — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:03:45 +0000

And we learned zero from the change after shutting down the Purdues. The electorate just wants to see drug users punished, not treated. Even though treating cheaper, more humane, and has way better outcomes.

New comment by Veliladon in "Tesla publishes analyst forecasts suggesting sales set to fall"

Veliladon — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:23:54 +0000

Given that xAI only has a few billion in cash on hand? Very fucking low. It'd bankrupt Elon before reaching that stage though.

New comment by Veliladon in "Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components"

Veliladon — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:56:26 +0000

It's a wonderful day on the Internet. A beautiful day for a CVSS 10 exploit!

New comment by Veliladon in "Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks – and no, he's"

Veliladon — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 02:26:40 +0000

Fuck him and people like him. There's no good reason to have a 70 hour work week other than insecure management needing it as a security blanket like some nine year old child. Researchers keep showing how human beings have a maximum productive time each week but instead he and his ilk want to go against this research for the sheer optics of it.

New comment by Veliladon in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

Veliladon — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:05:09 +0000

Errors work just like exceptions especially if you use the ? operator and let the error bubble up the chain. This is the Rust equivalent of an unhandled exception and the ripcord being pulled.

New comment by Veliladon in "Maybe you’re not trying"

Veliladon — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:20:22 +0000

Probably because our desire to help and not let down a person we care about gives us courage. That courage serves as motivation to go outside our comfort zone.

New comment by Veliladon in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"

Veliladon — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:34:07 +0000

> The mod injects only in the process Winlogon.exe, and exits once the handle of the memory area is closed. It does not hook any functions.

Yep. Sure. Going to let a Russian utility fuck with winlogon.exe. Excellent idea.

New comment by Veliladon in "Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned"

Veliladon — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:52:44 +0000

^ This. I'm waiting for an LLM where I can just point it to a repo, slurp it up, and let me ask questions about it.

New comment by Veliladon in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

Veliladon — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:28:01 +0000

Normally this would be handled by a wider synchronized network. The EU has a continent wide synchronized network and the UK isn’t part of it.

There are also other ways to store energy. For polar regions sand batteries are capable of storing heat for months. High grade heat to the point they can siphon off that heat for power generation.

New comment by Veliladon in "Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment"

Veliladon — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:41:52 +0000

>But you cannot use this anywhere where the ultrasound would be blocked by other organs.

Yes you can. If you had an array of ultrasonic transducers around the body you could have each of them in phase targeting a single spot. Beamforming is a thing we've been doing for years with RF. It's even more trivial with sound.

New comment by Veliladon in "Why we need SIMD"

Veliladon — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:12:09 +0000

GPUs are literal SIMD devices. Usually 32 or 64 ALU lanes.

New comment by Veliladon in "Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing"

Veliladon — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:28 +0000

Need to go Apple style where the AES engine is on die. Only the AES engine and the Secure Enclave know the decryption keys. The CPU doesn't know the decryption key. Nothing is sent in clear text over the bus.

New comment by Veliladon in "A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code"

Veliladon — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:06:25 +0000

For me it's because I learned Ada in college.

18 year old me couldn't appreciate how beautiful a language it is but in my 40s I finally do.

New comment by Veliladon in "A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code"

Veliladon — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:31:39 +0000

> The ability to make number types that were limited in their range is really useful for certain classes of bugs.

Yes! I would kill to get Ada's number range feature in Rust!