Hacker News: JayShower

New comment by JayShower in "Just let me select text"

JayShower — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:51:17 +0000

I also have the habit and am not sure why. I just find myself double-clicking and highlighting whatever I'm reading. Someone noticed me doing it once and asked if I had a tic.

New comment by JayShower in "Why doctors hate their computers (2018)"

JayShower — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:27:25 +0000

This stood out to me:

> Indeed, the computer, by virtue of its brittle nature, seems to require that it come first. Brittleness is the inability of a system to cope with surprises, and, as we apply computers to situations that are ever more interconnected and layered, our systems are confounded by ever more surprises. By contrast, the systems theorist David Woods notes, human beings are designed to handle surprises. We’re resilient; we evolved to handle the shifting variety of a world where events routinely fall outside the boundaries of expectation. As a result, it’s the people inside organizations, not the machines, who must improvise in the face of unanticipated events.

In this new age of AI, maybe we can start to reverse this trend? Make systems that can adapt and handle surprises, instead of pushing all this brittleness onto the humans using the system

New comment by JayShower in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)"

JayShower — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:02:12 +0000

Me too, doing all that isn’t why I signed up for this career.

New comment by JayShower in "Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18"

JayShower — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:59:31 +0000

This is so cool! I first learned about homomorphic encryption in the context of an election cybersecurity class and it seemed so pie-in-the-sky, something that would unlikely be used for general practical purposes and only ever in very niche areas. Seeing a big tech company apply it in a core product like this really does feel like a step in the right direction towards taking back some privacy.

New comment by JayShower in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

JayShower — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:34:30 +0000

Alternative solution that would require less heavy lifting of ML but a little more upfront programming: It sounds like the cars are arranged in a grid on the wall. Maybe it would be possible to narrow down which car the user took a photo of by looking at the photos of the surrounding cars as well, and hardcoding into the system the position of each car relative to one another? Could potentially do that locally very quickly (maybe even at the level of QR-code speed) versus doing an embedding + LLM.

Con of this approach would be that it’s requires maintenance if they ever decide to change the illustration positions.

New comment by JayShower in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

JayShower — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:31:56 +0000

Sounds like the client cared a lot about the user experience being smooth (they declined the solution of presenting the user with the narrowed-down choices of which car they took a picture of), and I think adding a bunch of QR codes to this aesthetic wall of car illustrations would not align with that goal.

New comment by JayShower in "The Life of Google's Secret Weapon"

JayShower — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 05:05:31 +0000

Is this normal for lobbyists? This seems crazy

New comment by JayShower in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"

JayShower — Sat, 18 May 2024 01:31:20 +0000

This is really cool!

New comment by JayShower in "US Department of Labor Publishes Request for Information on Schedule a Revisions"

JayShower — Sat, 11 May 2024 16:39:05 +0000

There are two proposed rules, you can see them and leave comments here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/ETA-2023-0006-0001

And here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/ETA-2023-0006-0052

US Department of Labor Publishes Request for Information on Schedule a Revisions

JayShower — Sat, 11 May 2024 16:36:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20231215-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329130

Points: 1

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New comment by JayShower in "Persistent Memory Allocation and Programming (2022) [pdf]"

JayShower — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 03:01:34 +0000

Here is a more readable version of the pdf I submitted: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3534855

New comment by JayShower in "Persistent Memory Allocation and Programming (2022) [pdf]"

JayShower — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 02:26:37 +0000

Abstract:

Persistent memory is a software abstraction and a corresponding programming style, both of which are easy to implement and practice on ordinary computers — fancy newfangled non-volatile memory hardware is not required. Persistent memory programming is easy to learn, and it can make applications simpler and more efficient by streamlining the handling of persistent data.

Author Bio:

Terence Kelly studied computer science at Princeton and the University of Michigan, earning his U-M EECS/CSE Ph.D. in 2002, followed by twenty years in industrial research (HP Labs) and software engineering (AWS/Amazon). Kelly now teaches and evangelizes persistent memory programming and writes the popular “Drill Bits” column in ACM Queue magazine (https://queue.acm.org/DrillBits).

Persistent Memory Allocation and Programming (2022) [pdf]

JayShower — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 02:26:37 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3534855

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35519998

Points: 4

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