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by rafram 1y ago
New York City has different rules from New York State, and commercial vehicles have different rules from personal vehicles. The limit for commercial vehicles in NYC is three minutes, or one minute when adjacent to a park/school: https
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by rafram 1y ago
This program specifically fines businesses with fleets of commercial vehicles (delivery trucks, buses, et cetera) for illegal idling, and escalates the fines for repeat offenders. You can't report random individuals, nor would I real
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by rafram 1y ago
That's a fair point. I have to see how the AI costs stack up, since heavy use can run up the bill pretty quickly with video inputs, and all subscriptions come with unlimited usage.
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by rafram 1y ago
Thank you!
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by rafram 1y ago
It used to be that as long as the vehicle was on the same block as a school or park, you only had to take a one-minute video (versus three-minute). Now there are some annoying documentation requirements if you want to submit a shorter video
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by rafram 1y ago
Thank you!
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Show HN: Report idling vehicles in NYC (and get a cut of the fines) with AI(apps.apple.com)
194 points by rafram 1y ago|287 comments
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by rafram 1y ago
Yes it’s not like this is the first tool to do this on macOS; e.g., https://github.com/acrogenesis/macchanger
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by rafram 1y ago
Yes. It’s a bad (maybe even illegal?) thing to do. The victim device will start losing packets, and it’ll look to them like the network is just unreliable. Eventually they give up and disconnect, and you take full control.
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by rafram 1y ago
It (AppleScript) is, and you can actually write JS instead these days, with a criminally underdocumented Objective-C bridge (JXA).
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by rafram 1y ago
Or Alfred script, Raycast plugin, Shortcuts shortcut, shell alias, and the list goes on. There are a lot of decent options; "50+ MB Electron app" is, in my opinion, not one.
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by rafram 1y ago
It's required by law in some countries, and it leads to some very funny chicken-and-egg situations with airport WiFi. Istanbul Airport added a workaround: a physical passport scanner that stores your info and generates a code as an alt
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by rafram 1y ago
Where did you get Qt from? This is, again, a Mac-only app that doesn’t even have any windows. It’s just a menu bar icon and a notification. That’s incredibly simple to build with plain old Cocoa and Swift.
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by rafram 1y ago
Why does a Mac-only app that shows a menu bar icon and a notification popup need to be Electron…? That’s 30 lines of Swift, max.
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by rafram 1y ago
Correct link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/liberty-phone-purism-...
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by rafram 1y ago
It is genuinely such a luxury to spend zero minutes of your day looking for parking, remembering where you parked, memorizing parking regulations, planning out the parking situation around a place you might want to go… All of that feels so
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by rafram 1y ago
> his April Fools' video where he played the role of a suburbanite obsessed with his new truck Happy to say I missed that one. But yes, I completely agree with all of that. I'd love more of the analyses of why some systems work
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by rafram 1y ago
Of course. Faux-news outlets peddling disinformation will always be happy to let you read their work for free. Serious journalists rely on your subscription for their paycheck, not Iranian state media, like the author of the OP link [1]. An
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by rafram 1y ago
That seems good too.
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by rafram 1y ago
Grayzone is an extremely unreliable source which frequently publishes false stories with an anti-US bent [1][2]. The past discussion [3] has a WSJ link which should be preferred over this. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by rafram 1y ago
We're kind of getting off track here, but a 3-lb tin of preground coffee is not going to taste very good by the time you finish it, if it ever tastes good at all. It's pretty likely to be low-quality and stale before you even pull
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by rafram 1y ago
Not Just Bikes is such a terminal pessimist. I enjoy his videos but I think he really has trouble acknowledging the counterpoints to his doom-and-gloom rhetoric. What he says in that video just barely applies to NYC at all.
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by rafram 1y ago
Yeah, I will unabashedly shill for YouTube Premium. It’s cheap, it pays video creators more than ads do, and it includes YouTube Music so you can ditch Spotify.
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by rafram 1y ago
The text is very off-center and the AI "vibe" is palpable. Hire a designer or at least take the time to add the text to a free SVG yourself.
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by rafram 1y ago
It's not a "theoretical" tax credit. Here's the application form: https://lidp.mta.info/ Congesting pricing has dual goals of reducing congestion and funding the MTA. Low-income drivers get a break on th
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by rafram 1y ago
The MTA did prove it. That's how they got approval from USDOT. Here's an 868-page report if you're actually serious about wanting proof: https://www.mta.info/document/93446
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by rafram 1y ago
It already has done the former two. (Fixing streets is NYC DOT, a separate agency run by the city, not the state.)
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by rafram 1y ago
> The default is not to tax. No it isn't. The government pays for public transit, for the bridges and tunnels that vehicles take into the city, and for the infrastructure that they use when they're here. The government funds it
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by rafram 1y ago
Pointless strawman response. If you think the MTA's waste is in any way comparable to Tammany Hall, back that up with numbers.
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by rafram 1y ago
It's a max of $21 for a truckload of goods, and that's if they deliver during the day. It probably costs the shipper more than that when the driver stops at a gas station to use the bathroom. Obviously the numbers will vary signif

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