Hacker News: cbuq

New comment by cbuq in "My Favorite C++ Pattern: X Macros (2023)"

cbuq — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:25:50 +0000

This sounds pragmatic, but are you writing C++ executables that when run create the generated code? Are there templating libraries involved?

New comment by cbuq in "Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end"

cbuq — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:46:04 +0000

Aren't these services (and even adblockers) against YouTube's TOS? As much as I don't like ads as the next person, my Google account is one thing I don't want to risk.

Anybody hear of this happening or think it's a possibility down the road?

New comment by cbuq in "TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4"

cbuq — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:16:13 +0000

Does the demo show the AI with the prompt to "Schedule standup tomorrow at 10am. Invite david@taxy.ai" scheduling a meeting at 10am TODAY, which also was already five hours in the past?

Makes me worried about AI with internet access...

New comment by cbuq in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

cbuq — Wed, 25 May 2022 16:22:55 +0000

This reminds me of the Crusader Blade mod which combines Crusader Kings 3 and Banner Lord 2 to let you fight the normally simulated fights in CK3 in the battlefield of BL2, and passes results back and forth between the two interfaces.

New comment by cbuq in "Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong"

cbuq — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:04:42 +0000

I was interested in the numbers from covid.cdc.gov

Theses are 7-day metrics for positive cases. - California: 59,487 - Florida: 179,586 - Massachusetts: 49,628 - New York: 93,309

New comment by cbuq in "Show HN: Antimander – Optimize Congressional Districts with Genetic Algorithms"

cbuq — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:01:16 +0000

Would this require me to make 53 different votes? This sounds a like pretty complicated situation to expect educated votes for all 53 votes.

New comment by cbuq in "Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scooters following Jump sale"

cbuq — Thu, 28 May 2020 19:18:23 +0000

From the end of the article, Uber explains why they recycled the old bikes not transferred to Jump in the sale,

> But given many significant issues - including maintenance, liability, safety concerns, and a lack of consumer-grade charging equipment - we decided the best approach was to responsibly recycle them.

Unfortunately seems to most responsible way to handle these bikes. I see the charging issue being a major problem. Trek just switched their rentable bikes to electric in my city, I wonder if they face the same fate.

And settle down everyone, they are being recycled, not dumped in a hole.

New comment by cbuq in "Stop Using Encrypted Email"

cbuq — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:19:00 +0000

Isn't authentication just as important as encryption for secure communication?

What is the benefit of being both anonymous and encrypted?

New comment by cbuq in "Understanding the generalization of ‘lottery tickets’ in neural networks"

cbuq — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 04:03:04 +0000

How is this different from a sparse autoencoder?

New comment by cbuq in "Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone"

cbuq — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:59:13 +0000

If the fingerprint somehow gets embedded into the screen protector, is it possible that the screen protector is "tainted" with the fingerprint from previous usage?

I'm not dismissing the claims, but I would like to see if the behavior can be replicated with a brand new screen protector.

New comment by cbuq in "New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model"

cbuq — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:53:44 +0000

I think Touch ID on a laptop / desktop would make a lot of sense. I don't actually know any of my passwords.

New comment by cbuq in "Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates"

cbuq — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:49:44 +0000

This isn't a problem if, like me, Windows manages to corrupt itself and is unable to perform a Windows update.

A little over a year ago the automatic update failed, I've tried all sorts of ways to get an updated version of Windows, but they have all failed. My research seems to point me to a full reinstall of Windows.

But my computer hasn't restarted arbitrarily in over a year!

New comment by cbuq in "Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless"

cbuq — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:26:33 +0000

The unfortunate reality is that this is perfectly legal.

I feel you are out of the loop with the whole net neutrality fiasco (https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality)

New comment by cbuq in "Show HN: Buckaroo – A decentralized C++ package manager"

cbuq — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:15:00 +0000

Exactly, without a server to fetch dependencies from you can still manage your local cache.

New comment by cbuq in "Show HN: Buckaroo – A decentralized C++ package manager"

cbuq — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 20:29:55 +0000

Just to break down your complaints.

1. Conan does not require a server. If a project contains a conanfile.py with build instructions, you can also run `conan create` from a project's source repository (no server required).

2. You can easily force build dependencies with the `--build *` flag

New comment by cbuq in "Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years"

cbuq — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:47:55 +0000

"The Cloud" is like storing your data with skywriting, you can see it from many locations, but so can your neighbors

New comment by cbuq in "Man, 69, loses legal battle against temporal reality in effort to become 49"

cbuq — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:17:51 +0000

I agree that there is a philosophical discussion to be had, but the actual request was to change his official date of birth from March 11, 1949 to March 11, 1969 which is just ridiculous.

New comment by cbuq in "ReX.js – Your RegEx companion"

cbuq — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:53:00 +0000

I think logfile analysis is a perfect example. Regex could be the perfect tool for one-shot analysis of logs. But if you are writing an actual commercial application to do logfile analysis, regex is probably not the right tool.

New comment by cbuq in "ReX.js – Your RegEx companion"

cbuq — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:18:40 +0000

There is a saying (which I can't remember the source) that I always thought described regex perfectly in my experience.

"Beginner programmers don't understand regex, good programmers understand regex, the best programmers don't use regex."

I've found regex is a poor choice in production systems because it is very hard to maintain (which this library tries to address) and very hard to test (which this library does not address).

However, regex is perfect for that complicated one-time find and replace.

New comment by cbuq in "The C++ Build Process Explained"

cbuq — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 02:18:56 +0000

For global or namespace functions you can hide the implementation in the .cpp file.

Doing the same with objects require pointers to hide the details of any private members. A common pattern is called Pointer to IMPLemenation (PIMPL).

Not sure why we need to exclude pointers?

In c++14 this is very much simplified with the use of unique pointers.

std::unique_ptr make_foo(...);