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| ▲ | wiseowise an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Being good at leetcode grinding isn’t the same as being a good product person. | | |
| ▲ | fsloth 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Ouch. You could have taken a statistical approach "google is not known for high quality product development and likely therefore does not select candidates for qualities in product-development domain" - I'm talking too much to Gemini, aren't I? | |
| ▲ | boringg an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | shots fired! |
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| ▲ | ljm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm not that surprised because of how pervasive the 'move fast and break things' culture is in Silicon Valley, and what is essentially AI accelerationism. You see this reflected all over HN as well, e.g. when Cloudflare goes down and it's a good thing because it gives you a break from the screen. Who cares that it broke? That's just how it is. This is just not how software engineering goes in many other places, particularly where the stakes are much higher and can be life altering, if not threatening. | |
| ▲ | 9rx an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It is obvious if viewed through an Apple lens. It wouldn't be so obvious if viewed through a Google lens. Google doesn't hesitate to throw whatever its got out there to see what sticks; quickly cancelling anything that doesn't work out, even if some users come to love the offering. | |
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| ▲ | ramses0 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | re: youtube music, I just tried it on my phone and it worked fine... maaaybe b/c you're not a youtube premium subscriber and google wants to shove ads into your sweet sweet eyeballs? The one that kindof caught me off guard was asking "hey siri, how long will it take me to get home?" => "You'll need to unlock your iPhone for that, but I don't recommend doing that while driving..." => if you left your phone unattended at a bar and someone could figure out your home address w/o unlock. ...I'm kindof with you, maybe similar to AirTags and "Trusted Locations" there could be a middle ground of "don't worry about exposing rough geolocation or summary PII". At home, in your car (connected to a known CarPlay), kindof an in-between "Geo-Unlock"? | | |
| ▲ | bobchadwick 16 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I pay for YouTube Music and I see really inconsistent behavior when asking Siri to play music. My five-year-old kid is really into an AI slop song that claims to be from the KPop Daemon Hunters 2 soundtrack, called Bloodline (can we talk about how YT Music in full of trashy rip-off songs?). He's been asking to listen to it every day this week in the car and prior to this morning, saying "listen to kpop daemon hunters bloodline" would work fine, playing it via YT Music. This morning, I tried every iteration of that request I could think of and I was never able to get it to play. Sometimes I'd get the response that I had to open YT Music to continue, and other times it would say it was playing, but it would never actually queue it up. This is a pretty regular issue I see. I'm not sure if the problem is with Siri or YT Music. |
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| ▲ | blks 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Do you want people being able to command your phone without unblocking? Maybe what you want is to disable phone blocking all together | | |
| ▲ | anhner 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh no, what if they put on Christmas music playlist in February? the horror! There should exist something between "don't allow anything without unlocking phone first" and "leave the phone unlocked for anyone to access", like "allow certain voice commands to be available to anyone even with phone locked" | | |
| ▲ | ninkendo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Playing music doesn’t require unlocking though, at least not from the Music app. If YouTube requires an unlock that’s actually a setting YouTube sets in their SiriKit configuration. For reading messages, IIRC it depends on whether you have text notification previews enabled on the lock screen (they don’t document this anywhere that I can see.) The logic is that if you block people from seeing your texts from the lock screen without unlocking your device, Siri should be blocked from reading them too. Edit: Nope, you’re right. I just enabled notification previews for Messages on the lock screen and Siri still requires an unlock. That’s a bug. One of many, many, many Siri bugs that just sort of pile up over time. | |
| ▲ | Anelya 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Can it not recognize my voice? I had to record the pronunciation of 100 words when I setup my new iPhone - isn’t there a voice signature pattern that could be the key to unlock? | | |
| ▲ | anhner 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It certainly should have been a feature up until now. However, I think at this point anyone can clone your voice and bypass it. But as a user I want to be able to give it permission to run selected commands even with the phone locked. Like I don't care if someone searches google for something or puts a song via spotify. If I don't hide notifications when locked, what does it matter that someone who has my phone reads them or listens to them? |
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| ▲ | eisfresser 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not really. Giving the weather forecast or playing music seems pretty low risk to me. |
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| ▲ | KaiserPro 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Right, but you understand why allowing access to unauthenticated voice is bad for security right? | | |
| ▲ | anhner 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | But you understand why if I don't care about that, I should be able to run it, right? | | |
| ▲ | pixl97 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I understand why you'd want to do it. Oddly enough I also understand Apple telling you, good luck, find someones platform that will allow that, that's not us. |
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