Hacker News: dwhitney

New comment by dwhitney in "Why developers using AI are working longer hours"

dwhitney — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:47:59 +0000

I feel totally the opposite. I feel like I'm better able to have more work-life balance. Our predictions are more accurate. I'm enjoying working on actual problems rather than boilerplate. These tools are amazing

New comment by dwhitney in "Diagraming sentences in the 19th century"

dwhitney — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:49:59 +0000

I learned how to diagram sentences in college. It was eye-opening, and I wish I had learned it sooner.

New comment by dwhitney in "Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?"

dwhitney — Tue, 28 May 2024 17:32:15 +0000

oof - this article is pushing bad advice - general disclaimer: use a third party authentication system like Okta or Cognito. It's going to save you so much grief down the road. They pretty much all use the same pattern (OIDC), so you just need to learn it once, and you're good for at least another decade. Authentication is one of the easiest and most important things to take off of your plate. Do it.

New comment by dwhitney in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

dwhitney — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:19:10 +0000

501108 - never forget

New comment by dwhitney in "How to get 7th graders to smoke"

dwhitney — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:06:15 +0000

Contrarian view - the programs are working. Rates of smoking among teens over the past three decades:

Ever used nicotine: 70.1% in 1991 to 17.8% in 2021; Occasional use of nicotine: 27.5% in 1991 to 3.8% in 2021; Frequent use of nicotine: 12.7% to 0.7%; Daily use of nicotine: 9.8% in 1991 to 0.6% in 2021

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/teen-cigarette-smoking...

I suspect the same can be said for workplace sexual harassment and outlooks on diversity. I agree that the programs are dumb and the trainings are dumb, but they have an effect.

New comment by dwhitney in "What should I do if I suspect one of the journal reviews I got is AI-generated?"

dwhitney — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:17:43 +0000

My takeaway: I need the person who wrote the top response on stackexchange to tell me how to run my life.

New comment by dwhitney in "Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets"

dwhitney — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:59:15 +0000

I was under the impression that expressing a sense of humor was not allowed on this site. Can someone clarify :)

New comment by dwhitney in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

dwhitney — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:31:05 +0000

Yeah that was silly, but aren't all of the new iPhone cameras 3D cameras? People take photos/videos all of the time. Now you can immerse yourself in them. I think it's pretty cool

New comment by dwhitney in "UFOs exist in the low information zone"

dwhitney — Wed, 03 May 2023 19:21:59 +0000

Yeah but more importantly the post suggests there are likely terrestrial explanations which obey the laws of physics as we understand them contrary to what's been depicted in the media recently.

I want to believe, but I agree with the author of the post that we need to see some evidence that's outside of the "Low Information Zone"

New comment by dwhitney in "Elitism as the mid-career growth engine"

dwhitney — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:57:58 +0000

You can elevate others while pushing your ideals - once you truly understand something, you can teach it.

New comment by dwhitney in "US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]"

dwhitney — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 18:13:09 +0000

As a US citizen, I whole heartedly agree, and I assume our government would do the same.

New comment by dwhitney in "Geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away"

dwhitney — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:16:42 +0000

This is the first time I’ve seen humor on this site. If I were you, I’d be afraid

New comment by dwhitney in "Best performing assets against inflation"

dwhitney — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:01:00 +0000

The debt to gdp ratio is higher than it’s ever been.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

I don’t see us cutting back spending any time soon, so it doesn’t seem crazy to me that we inflate our way out of this, especially since after this pandemic a lot of countries are in a similar situation, making inflation more politically viable

New comment by dwhitney in "Apple is building the metaverse substrate"

dwhitney — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:55:34 +0000

I hope you're wrong. I understand that the technology for the dream that "Google Glasses" was selling isn't quite there, but I hope Apple has a research team moving closer and closer to it.

New comment by dwhitney in "Only 6 of the 50 largest companies are in Europe. LVMH is highest at #18"

dwhitney — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 22:02:16 +0000

I work for a FAANG. Among the many benefits we receive, a large chunk of our pay comes in the form of equity. When the price of the stock goes up, so does my effective pay. Also there is free food and stuff.

New comment by dwhitney in "Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture"

dwhitney — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:03:53 +0000

Also PureScript addresses all of the issues you've complained about above :)

New comment by dwhitney in "Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture"

dwhitney — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:02:15 +0000

FWIW this post is about PureScript, not Elm. The library is an implementation of the Elm Architecture in PureScript. Elm is a language. The framework that goes along with it is called "The Elm Architecture". The Architecture can be implemented in any language. Here's an implementation in TypeScript: https://github.com/gcanti/elm-ts

New comment by dwhitney in "Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture"

dwhitney — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:57:30 +0000

I was wondering that myself. Here's an Ajax example: https://github.com/purescript-concur/purescript-concur-react...

It could use some type signatures, but it makes sense.

As for managing state, my understanding of the Elm Architecture is that there is one "global" state data structure, and various parts of it are handed down from parent to child. So my question would be the opposite of yours: what if I want local state? Is that possible? There are situations where some toggle being on or off isn't very important and keeping track of it in a global data structure is burdensome

New comment by dwhitney in "Vitalik Buterin's $1B crypto donation to India Covid Relief fund"

dwhitney — Wed, 12 May 2021 20:12:44 +0000

If they were worth near nothing when he got them then the tax would be small. Sending them is probably another taxable event but most countries allow you to write off charitable contributions

New comment by dwhitney in "Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers"

dwhitney — Wed, 05 May 2021 13:06:40 +0000

as someone who has designed an application for financial services, I can confirm that Berkshire is a PITA :)