Hacker News: jpdenford

New comment by jpdenford in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

jpdenford — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:10:45 +0000

They also wanted the protocol to work with duckdb wasm in the browser. I can’t comment on the performance side but that consistency piece is pretty key to duckdbs value proposition I think.

New comment by jpdenford in "Lab-grown salmon hits the menu"

jpdenford — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:17:00 +0000

There are plenty of replies raising the issue of empirics vs anecdotal evidence. However to add to the anecdotal, there are many top level vegan athletes out there - Lewis Hamilton, Venus Williams to name a couple of particularly famous ones. It’s worth looking up though as it does show that it’s at least possible to be vegan and much healthier than the average person (depending on your definition of healthy I suppose).

New comment by jpdenford in "Rust and WASM for Form Validation"

jpdenford — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:17:24 +0000

The author said the following

> I’m using form validation as a placeholder. It shows all the crucial aspects to use WASM instead of JS, like wiring up DOM events to Rust functions, and then reacting to those events.

New comment by jpdenford in "Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI"

jpdenford — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:55:48 +0000

I think you’re taking the “job” bit too literally. As someone else said, “responsibility” might be a better term. We all act (vote, talk, help, purchase etc) and have the ability to do so in a way which is ethically informed. You could say it’s everyone’s responsibility to make sure that the important jobs are being done by someone.

New comment by jpdenford in "GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)"

jpdenford — Mon, 29 May 2023 23:50:08 +0000

Bhutan’s implementation of GDH aside. What matters more than happiness? Surely any other metric is just an (often misguided) approximation.

New comment by jpdenford in "Arguing from compassion (2021)"

jpdenford — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:18:07 +0000

> The outermost and largest circle, which encompasses all the rest, is that of the whole human race.

Interesting, I think there are at least a couple more outer rings which encompass non-human animals too. In western culture we’ve decided a smaller ring goes around pets (dogs, cats), and then maybe farm animals then sea creatures. Hopefully we can “draw these circles together” too.