Hacker News Reader

frenchie4111on Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover

Can someone make a diagram or video for us visually minded folk

edit: nvm found it in a sister comment

frenchie4111on Please make your table headings sticky

Make a browser extension that stickys all table headings :p

frenchie4111on Instruction-Based Image Editing via LLM

Why is this being downvoted? Agreed. They have acquired so much talent [1] in this space, it's exciting to start seeing things come out of that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9Jg4WldJg

frenchie4111on Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams

Sorry about that

frenchie4111on Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams

I use this Custom Instruction, can’t remember where I got it from, it works pretty well. Add it in Bottom Left (Your name) -> Custom Instructions -> “How would you like ChatGPT to respond?”

    Be terse. Do not offer unprompted advice or clarifications. Speak in specific, topic relevant terminology. Do NOT hedge or qualify. Do not waffle. Speak directly and be willing to make creative guesses. Explain your reasoning. if you don’t know, say you don’t know. Remain neutral on all topics. Be willing to reference less reputable sources for ideas. Never apologize. Ask questions when unsure.

frenchie4111on Porsche Open Source Platform

I think their point / the general FOSS argument is that those 1000 of man-years would be turned into 10000 man-years if these things were open sourced. A similar security concern could be waived at things like openssl, but it seems pretty inarguable that openssl is a net-positive for security.

frenchie4111on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.staycaffeinated.com/

frenchie4111on Launch HN: Seam (YC S20) – API for IoT Devices

Excited for the launch! Looks like you've built something cool. Excited to try it out

frenchie4111on A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)

Staff picks still make up a huge % of my personal listening

frenchie4111on Swarm – Low cost, global satellite connectivity for IoT

Data will get cheaper, fast

frenchie4111on Nord – An Arctic, north-bluish color palette

Can someone explain why themes are trending today? Solarized was also front page

frenchie4111on Meta Quest Pro

Can someone give us a breakdown of the difference between this and Quest 2? I don't see a direct comparison on the website

frenchie4111on Act-1: Transformer for Actions

One thing I have noticed with heavy use of copilot/dall-e, is that it's great at getting you most of the way there. But a big thing it's not great at is repeatability. When relying on something like ACT-1 to do data entry in salesforce, I need to do roughly exactly the same thing every time, even if the context is slightly different or I tell it something slightly differently. How well will it be able to do that?

Also this is very very cool, I love copilot, I hope I get to use this thing very soon.

frenchie4111on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)

Verkada | SFBA | Engineers

Verkada is a C stage startup with strong product market fit. We have modernized enterprise physical security (cameras, access control, sensors) and are working on a bunch of new hardware & software products to continue expanding into enterprise building management. Our vision is to build the privacy focused building operating system of the future.

We are looking for all types of engineering talent from Frontend to Backend to Firmware to Hardware. If you are excited about building and passionate about what you do, reach out I'm sure we can find you a spot.

Email me directly at: mike.lyons@verkada.com and I'll connect you with the right team.

Careers page: https://www.verkada.com/careers/

frenchie4111on V 0.3

Can I suggest: On your github homepage (https://github.com/vlang/v) you should put some sample code, I scrolled all the way through it and did see anything.

frenchie4111on Ask HN: Why are you here?

I'm here because for any interesting article there is a fairly high chance a couple of experts on the topic will be talking about it in the comments.

frenchie4111on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)

Verkada | SFBA | Engineers

Email me directly at: mike.lyons@verkada.com and I'll connect you with the right team.

Careers page: https://www.verkada.com/careers/

frenchie4111on NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

Looks like a cool project, not throwing shade, but these two lines in this order made me giggle:

    Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work.
    
    There are numerous bugs and half working implementations. Pull requests are greatly appreciated.

frenchie4111on Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://staycaffeinated.com/

Haven't written since the new job, been meaning to finish up a few drafts I have lying around

frenchie4111on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)

Verkada | SFBA | Engineers

Verkada is a C stage startup with strong product market fit. We have modernized enterprise physical security (cameras, access control, sensors) and are working on a bunch of new hardware & software products to continue expanding into enterprise building management. Our vision is to build a privacy focused building operating system of the future.

We are looking for all types of engineering talent from Frontend to Backend to Firmware to Hardware. If you are excited about building modern cloud enabled hardware, and passionate about what you do reach out I'm sure we can find you a spot.

Email me directly at: mike.lyons@verkada.com and I'll connect you with the right team.

Careers page: https://www.verkada.com/careers/

frenchie4111on Go 1.18

Someone started a lodash style stdlib replacement: https://github.com/samber/lo

frenchie4111on Go 1.18

Agreed on performance being in the air. Tbh, I like the non-pointer option because using a pointer was causing the implementation to feel a bit weird. This cleans up a bit of the handling that was annoying (for example in the old implementation Make(&"something") didn't work because you can't reference a constant without first making a variable.

frenchie4111on Go 1.18

I love it. I will update the library to match some of your suggestions.

I agree with peer comment that we should likely defer to the original type for JSON serialization.

frenchie4111on Go 1.18

In celebration of generics release, I was playing around with supporting Optionals via generics. If anyone's interested I am happy to make this a real project

https://github.com/frenchie4111/go-generic-optional

frenchie4111on InstaNFC – Access Control Hardware for Developers

Email sent :)

frenchie4111on InstaNFC – Access Control Hardware for Developers

That's a great question. Hard to answer in a comment. It's sort of apples & oranges. The way I think about it, we are targeting a different customer (enterprise vs small business/home) and we are solving the problem in a different way (no nvr, cloud first, deeply integrated, extremely easy to install and maintain, dedicated customer support). In my mind, it's something like Reolink:Verkada::Self hosting:AWS

frenchie4111on InstaNFC – Access Control Hardware for Developers

Shameless plug: If this interests you, I am building similar technology for enterprises at Verkada, reach out to me I'm looking for builders

frenchie4111on Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)

Please look at Pydantic if you are interested in attrs or dataclasses. For a bunch of reasons it’s better (happy to discuss if anyone wants)

frenchie4111on Shouldiuseajsonbfield.com

Agreed. Please use them when it makes sense. This is just a joke.

frenchie4111on Shouldiuseajsonbfield.com

I guess it depends, why do you have schemaless data?