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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022) on Saturday April 02, 2022 @02:29AM (#30886246)
Discovery Sound Technology | Nashville, TN | Full-time | Ideally Onsite, Remote Available

We predict hardware failures before they happen using ultrasound! Our main product is a handheld tool that allows technicians, primarily for HVAC, to quickly and easily detect issues, sometimes years before the issues can cause downtime. We're an eight-person company looking for our 3rd Software Developer, ideally experienced with React/React Native. Bonus points for Machine Learning, AWS, or hardware experience

Email me if you're interested: `michaelp` at company website

Company Website: https://discoverdst.com/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021) on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:40AM (#27364915)
Discovery Sound Technology | Nashville, TN | Full-time | Primarily Onsite, Potentially Remote

We predict hardware failures before they happen using ultrasound! Our main product is a handheld tool that allows technicians, primarily for HVAC, to quickly and easily detect issues sometimes years before the issues can cause downtime. We're an eight-person company looking for our 3rd Software Developer, ideally experienced with React/React Native. Bonus points for Machine Learning, AWS, or hardware experience

Email me if you're interested: `michaelp` at company website

Company Website: https://discoverdst.com/

"Q16.16" seems to refer to fixed floating point precision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(number_format)). The parent comment is unhappy that SOD doesn't support floats with 16 integer bits and 16 fractional bits. I'm unsure why lack of support for 32 bit floats is such a problem considering that SOD is suppose to run on such resource constrained devices. Is there a particular domain where this is necessary?
Re:Virtual Reality Can Leave You with an Existential Hangover on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:03PM (#13282424)
Reminds me of a Reinhold Niebuhr quote: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer]

Re:Amazon Provides DIY Echo Plans for Raspberry Pi on Saturday March 26, 2016 @03:30AM (#11364786)
You could try adding in some simple motion, like raising your hand, before the system would start listening for hot words. Maybe connect a cheap infrared sensor to GPIO and block its view so it only detects motion at or above certain height.
Re:Offline messaging app (that actually works) on Monday June 01, 2015 @06:46PM (#9642749)
Really curious on how this works, is it just bluetooth or something fancier like Google Tone[0]?

[0] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/05/tone-experimental...

Re:Show HN: HN Rank Chrome extension on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @10:48AM (#8997467)
Getting this error - "Package is invalid. Details: 'Could not load extension icon 'icon.png'.'"

Chrome Version 40.0.2214.94 (64-bit) Arch Linux

Re:Ask HN: Anyone interested in an apprenticeship? on Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:12AM (#8301132)
Sounds fun, will follow.