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sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
The best thing you can do is keep an eye out and tag them manually. The second best is a FOIA to your county government - there's some good examples on deflock.me and templates on muckrack. But private ones are not going to be FOIA-able.

The quality of ALPR tagging does probably lag behind true counts - for example, Williamsburg, VA has 28 tagged on OSM, but 32 are listed in the transparency log (https://transparency.flocksafety.com/williamsburg-va-pd). Unfortunately not much can be done except spotting them out and about (or wardriving with a BLE beacon scanner: https://www.ryanohoro.com/post/spotting-flock-safety-s-falco...)

sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
Ah! This looks like a bug with cross-border calculations. Ideally it would not show a Rockland County, NJ - it might cross state borders to perform calculations but they should all have a 'home state' that matches to the right county. Thanks for the example case, I'll work on a fix
sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
Vets/hospitals are far less common (and the former probably suffers from less tags as hospitals are more important) so the distance one must travel increases, so higher likelihood of crossing one. Especially compared to how common everything else is.

If you check deflock.me, would you say that 0.0% aligns with what you expect?

sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
At least as per Carpenter v. United States, that data requires a warrant, not just any cop/LEO in the country typing in a license plate with reasoning as 'investigation'. That's a much better standard.
sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
To an extent this data is within our reach to stop (buy old car, unplug cellular modules, etc). With ALPRs the only option is moving.
sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
As far as I know there's no easy fix to this. It's the counties as reported by OpenStreetMaps' administrative boundaries.
sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
These cameras are currently not used at all for traffic/speed enforcement. The best they would do is track more serious crimes like hit-and-runs by photographing cars in the area.
sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
DeFlock is the first link in the "Related ALPR & Flock Projects" section, it contains a map.
sodality2··on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
It pulls counties from OSM administrative boundaries of level 6, which according to the OSM wiki, is "State counties and county equivalents, Territorial municipalities" (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3aboundary=administr...). It does lead to some weird oddities, like counties with under 10 homes... I'd rather not manually correct it, since I want to rely on pure OSM data. (Unless you mean there is an actual bug in the processing and there's counties listed that aren't in the right states...)

I'll add a link to the OSM relation for the county to each county page, so you can see the source data on OSM to verify/edit.

sodality2··on Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy
And easily internally shorted, leading to the dreadful 'wiggle around in your pocket until the headphones are detected again, and then press play again'...
sodality2··on Apple Mini Apps Partner Program
Sorry but comparing NSO Group's state actor malware to the tens of thousands of Android malware campaigns targeting everyone's bank account is so completely bad-faith. Every single thing you point to on iOS is about 10000x worse on Android; even if you look straight to state actors, Cellebrite can crack almost every android ever, whereas iPhones take at least a few years and the latest models are almost always protected.

That's ignoring the fact that literally zero average consumers are even targeted by these groups, nor do they have any perception of it. The average person is worried about exactly one thing: common consumer malware.

sodality2··on Apple Mini Apps Partner Program
I don't think so - the hugely negative perception of virus-laden wildlands on Android (which is somewhat true! most people could be tricked into bypassing the security prompts) makes people choose a safer option time after time.

You could absolutely make the case that users ought to be smarter, use technology as a power user, etc, but that's not the reality at the moment.

sodality2··on Apple Mini Apps Partner Program
FWIW this is how most informed consumers think as well. People buy iOS, consoles, etc because they want a walled garden. I think the real way out is getting consumers to see and value the benefits of leaving it.
sodality2··on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
It's one thing for, eg, OpenAI to decide a model is too dangerous to release. I don't really care, they don't owe anyone anything. It's more that open source is going to catch up, and it's a slippery slope into legal regulation that stifles innovation, competition, and won't meaningfully stop hackers from getting these models.
sodality2··on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
Categorically different? Sure. A valid excuse to ban certain forms of linear algebra? No.

And before someone says it's reductive to say it's just numbers, you could make the same argument in favor of cryptographic export controls, that the harm it does is larger than the benefit. Yet the benefit we can see in hindsight was clearly worth it.

sodality2··on Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
I don’t think these agents are doing anything a dedicated human couldn’t do, only enabling it at scale. Relying on “not being one of few they focus on” as security is just security as obscurity. You were living on borrowed time anyway.
sodality2··on Steam Machine
I have to wonder if it's possible to ever even guarantee something that can't be trivially bypassed on Linux - Windows, sure, it's possible with DMA, but it's damn hard. On Linux you could just compile a spoofed kernel or a DKMS module or something.
sodality2··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
It would be like attending a time-share dinner and putting in earplugs during their speech. I definitely think it's permissible to do it, but it's also permissible for them to kick you out for doing it.
sodality2··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
Tons of blatant phishing, rug-pull crypto coins, illegal medications, or just fraudulent websites. Very content-dependent though
sodality2··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
You won't find a ton of up-to-date info that would let you do the same - the scene groups hold their methods closely specifically because of this cat-and-mouse game.
sodality2··on I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT
Weird how you let this news story pop up on your screen so indolently, instead of fetching your newspaper from the front porch. You’re abandoning your agency! /s

I don’t mean to say that we should outsource our thoughts to LLMs. In this case it’s clear that even if they had just searched “places for xyz” on maps, it would’ve been just as bad - what they wanted was effort, shopping around + research with pros, cons, and discussions, not just “not an LLM”. Valid criticism!

sodality2··on Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes
All three flights were diverted due to weather, and none of them fell below the legally required amount of fuel. One has to wonder if it’s really reasonable to criticize them in this instance if a single weather event affected them all.
sodality2··on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
D'oh, didn't even notice that button :P Wow, that greatly improved the recommendations, it even found a book I wouldn't say is particularly related to the others but I found it interesting-sounding. Thanks for such a cool site!!
sodality2··on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
This is fantastic!!! I've added many results to my want-to-read list, they're very on-point from very few inputs. It would be really cool to import from a user ID, where you can choose some subset of your read list to inspire new suggestions, while excluding all books in your want-to-read and already-read lists. But that's an ongoing scrape to maintain, it's a cat and mouse game you probably don't want to start. I wonder what the legal status of scraped training data is... if you don't reproduce any of the review data I presume you're fine?
sodality2··on Facts about throwing good parties
Also from their (presumably more binding) privacy policy:

> We don’t sell your personal data as a source of revenue, unlike most apps -- we make money by selling drinks & snacks for your event via our Group Order feature

sodality2··on Reasoning models reason well, until they don't
The exact title of the capacity is 'theory of mind' - for example, chimpanzees have a limited capacity for it in that they can understand others' intentions, but they seemingly do not understand false beliefs (this is what GP mentioned).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.02.010

sodality2··on Roc Camera
What proof is there that this camera is photographing a genuine scene?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

sodality2··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
Do you plan on keeping it in your home? At that point I'd be worried about ISP networking or power guarantees unless you plan on upgrading to business rates for both. If you mean colo, well, if you're sure you'll be using it in X years, it's worth it, but the flexibility of month-to-month might be preferable.
sodality2··on Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)
> Trying to cram in as much knowledge as possible when your brain is fried isn't going to help you all that much.

I think the trade-off of being a little jittery and possibly scoring better on an exam is probably worth it. Unless you turn it into a habit, a few hours short on sleep a month isn't going to measurably harm you. Then again, it depends on how much you stand to gain from studying those extra few hours - and it's equally important to be realistic on that quantity.

sodality2··on Fluid Glass
I love that zooming controls the resolution live, so you can speed up and slow down the animation at will. Might be unintentional but it's fun!
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