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codeisawesome··on I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
Thanks for the post! I find that other voice assistants (eg. Siri) are not particularly able to detect the activation command when there's any background sound (like music with lyrics). How does your system perform against this?

I understand that you're doing batch processing asynchronously and so any immediate task isn't affected; but it's arguably even more of a problem where you record a task, put it out of your mind, but then the AI fails to detect the command because it got confused by the background?

[EDIT] I see you've sort of responded to this already at this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612155

codeisawesome··on FTC restores rigorous enforcement of law banning unfair methods of competition
“Chip War” by Chris Miller describes how Silicon Valley first successfully pulled this off, when Robert Noyce spearheaded the selling of chips at or under manufacturing cost in the 60s to wean off dependence on government contracts and get regular customers interested. It did work in that instance, but I guess the real question is when & how that framework should be applied.

A tempting idea is to judge whether or not the final good/service is indispensable for the users (and how likely monopoly can be established), such that prices can be raised to recoup the losses. But that alone doesn’t seem to be sufficient as shown by the MoviePass collapse. Lots of ingredients to get right!

codeisawesome··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Does this mean Facebook wouldn’t be allowed to list in this index if it tried today?
codeisawesome··on Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs
Can you elaborate what those skills are in your view? Meaning no disrespect, your current comment sounds like a hand-wavy opinion with zero actual justification.
codeisawesome··on Sound
Bartosz if you’re reading this, please make one about electronic circuits, starting from atoms to CPUs if possible! :)
codeisawesome··on Protein interface – how to change aproach to building software?
(Parent comment did mention the grain of salt, so my response below is to the spirit of the comment itself and not directed at the person).

> And if they start with, "well, I'd build a react app," you can go straight into the trash can with their resume, because you can have that whole discussion without deciding on so much as a language, much less a framework, so you can see who jumps too hastily to wrong assumptions.

So you would reject someone based on the first thing they say? That’s called prejudice - maybe they don’t have the systems programming lingo in place to describe the ideas you are looking for, but might actually have some ideas trending in the right direction given some nudging. Also, that sounds like you gave a systems programming problem to someone who may have specialised in react the last two years - did you read their resume?

Seeing how complex this discussion gets every time on what is the “right” way to interview and how biased people can get (things haven’t changed in a generation - it used to be about picking the wrong Java library I heard) - no wonder Leetcode has emerged as a “fair” standard-bar that everyone in computing has an actual shot at clearing.

That said, Leetcode-style does bias towards people who have time, resources, and not many responsibilities, especially with problems trending to ever more esoteric algorithms. I don’t know the solution.

codeisawesome··on Finland to Become the First EU Country to Test Digital Passports
Always been curious about this. In the movies we see characters printing out a fake passport on official looking paper, then the spy/superhero etc. shows up at a border and goes through.

If there’s a DB lookup it shouldn’t be possible to vend new passports without a persistent and undetected hack of the backend? If it’s a stolen passport with the photo changed, that should also show up on the lookup screen?

codeisawesome··on How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
TIL… also, an example in that page is also about a set of pigs killing a child, but this time from 15th century Europe!
codeisawesome··on How Street Dogs Spend Their Days
Street dogs run around in PACKS in so many Indian cities and even the beaches in Goa. They will absolutely attack a vulnerable target as well - which for example is you going for your morning walk at dawn, with few / no other people around. Terrifying stuff. I’ve also read news stories of a pack of feral urban pigs running down and murdering an old lady in India.
codeisawesome··on Infrastructure From Code
Scarier to imagine a bug in the static analysis code :)
codeisawesome··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
That seems like an actually valuable, human thing to work on vs the garbage many devs find themselves working on. Mini games can also be super engaging to build and are a showcase for creativity… I’m really not seeing the problem.
codeisawesome··on In Praise of Memorization
This comment makes the point in far fewer words and more effectively than TFA.
codeisawesome··on The Arc Language Forum
I suppose it’s a callback to HN being written in Arc :)
codeisawesome··on World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate
Is it really ‘free clean shelter’ and ‘free hay’ if, in exchange, their flesh is being harvested at some point? I applaud your efforts for humane animal consumption and I’m shamefully nowhere near your commitment. But I just took issue with the small problem in the mental model.
codeisawesome··on Imprisoned for Your Safety
I see… okay, thank you for educating me a bit further. The claim in TFA indeed sounded hyperbolic, and the plethora of law sites encouraging people to sue, only increased the fear factor.

My takeaway will still remain that ensuring comprehensive insurance should be a key factor in these engagements. But, good to know it’s not that simple for someone to steal your home over liability!

codeisawesome··on Imprisoned for Your Safety
First hit on search - https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/personal-injury/ladder-injury-l...

Apparently it is under “premises liability” and I don’t know how the so-called “warn the contractor” system gets to be anything beyond but he said she said in a real hearing…

codeisawesome··on Imprisoned for Your Safety
> If someone falls off a ladder while painting your house, they can sue you and take your house.

I just checked some online references and this is well within the realm of possibility. New thing learned today: contractor insurance certificates must be inspected thoroughly.

codeisawesome··on Akamai to Acquire Linode
Linode IRC folks taught me a bunch of linux many years ago on their channel. I was astounded by their patience towards my complete stupidity. Thank you Linode team & users, owe you a fair bit!
codeisawesome··on What does it mean to listen on a port?
Thank you so much for confirming this - I always wondered whether that's all it actually meant beyond the abstraction. TFA doesn't actually explain it despite the title(!)
codeisawesome··on Google rewrites many page titles
Let’s also not forget the 55 auto-playing video ads that I need to vault over to get to Step 1. Each one determined to hijack my mouse as I scroll/hurry past and cause a click! It’s like the world’s least fun platformer game.
codeisawesome··on Google rewrites many page titles
I got instantly annoyed by the first few words of this comment, thinking you’d gone off on some tangent about rice… until I saw the last part. Well played!
codeisawesome··on Are warp drives science now?
Yeah, we’re going to need a lot of spice melange…
codeisawesome··on Procrastinatory Doom Loops
Would you believe me if I told you I’d explained this with that exact metaphor to someone relatively recently? I literally mean with those same words in that exact order. This feels matrix-y :)
codeisawesome··on Procrastinatory Doom Loops
> Is he hungry? Is he bored? Does he want coffee? We haven't had lunch - should I cook? I should tidy.

That inner monologue is somehow humorous; but wow, you seem to be such a considerate partner!

codeisawesome··on Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
I have to wonder just what is the justification for Google to not let users decide what sites they never want to see results from? I'm sure it can't be storage or compute limitations. This one feature alone would make so many people (me included) happier to use the engine.
codeisawesome··on An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)
(Not to mention that that internship might be gate-kept for reasons outside of expertise, to boot)
codeisawesome··on A persistent denial of service vulnerability affecting iOS
Happened to me as well just a month or two ago! A total reset was the only fix…
codeisawesome··on Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech
15 years of waiting for a green card. 15 years of being on a visa that can have you kicked out anytime no matter how much you’ve invested into life there. Hats off to the folks who put up with this.
codeisawesome··on 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
Happy holidays!
codeisawesome··on 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
No problem; I think my own comment could be better by being more appreciative of the interesting info you shared, before focusing on the area of improvement straightaway. Thanks!
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