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What conditions/what problem/who want to use this? It looks cool, I just have no context. Is it for game dev? Lightbulb manufactures?


Thanks! For gaming: the Bevy demo shows how to calculate real lighting using exact technical parameters from actual products. for sure it is technical, but the point is it doesn't have to be a big Windows-only app – an installer can estimate what to put where using real data, just in the browser. These files tell much more than a product picture. Lighting engineers and manufacturers can use it too, though they'd likely want consulting or custom integration, or at least would need some kind of customizable reporting (For Mac there's also a QuickLook extension to browse files visually.)


Thanks! For gaming: the Bevy demo shows how to calculate real lighting using exact technical parameters from actual products.

for sure it is technical, but the point is it doesn't have to be a big Windows-only app – an installer can estimate what to put where using real data, just in the browser. These files tell much more than a product picture.

Lighting engineers and manufacturers can use it too, though they'd likely want consulting or custom integration, or at least would need some kind of customizable reporting (For Mac there's also a QuickLook extension to browse files visually.)


I am also curious about this. I have worked with wasm and rust, but this product seems alien and fascinating to me


Oh well, it is open source, you are welcome to have a look.. the web part is done in Leptos, the 3D part in Bevy. Most of it (as much as possible, to share across) is simple Rust. pyo3 makes it the python-module uniffi makes the bindings, to Swift/Kotlin the adaption of it even for CangJue (the Huawei HarmonyOs) So basically well known and very good Open Source For wasm to mention, i use wasm-split (the bevy part is quite big and loaded optionally, something like pdf exporter as well should go like this) Brotli compression is very much recommended, specifically for bevy and font stuff, where it shines compared to zip (sth like 55% savings on zip, but 70% with brotli)


Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks its obvious


Require commercially used photos to not contain identifying information (face license plate) without consent of the owner (of the license plate/face).

This already happens a lot on Google street view.


> Require commercially used photos to not contain identifying information…

So CNN can't put Trump's photo up unless he consents?


Just like copyright you'd have an exclusion for news reporting. A lot of these apparent 'gotchas' will be well known to lawyers and law drafters.


Specific to US copyright law, there are exceptions for "public persons". Without these exceptions, it would severely restrict reporting on said persons. The most important part of that last sentence is elected officials. In any highly advanced democracy, you want to grant your media wide access to elected officials for reporting purposes.


Lots of countries already have nuanced laws around public figures vs private citizens.


There have always been different standards for a person of public interest compared to the general public. So what is your point?


The point is the simple sounding proposal has a lot of complexity hiding behind it.

If I’m a photographer, do I have to get consent from both the divorced parents to photograph the kids? The kids themselves?


>the simple sounding proposal has a lot of complexity hiding behind it.

Okay? We're not on a legal forum drafting the 50 page law to cover all those loopholes. I'm nor even sure if the posting limit here would faciliate that.

I trust some decent lawyers can take the high level suggestions and dig into the minutae when it comes to real policy. And I find it a bit annoying to berate the community because they aren't acting as a lawyer (and no one here claims to be one AFAIK).

>If I’m a photographer, do I have to get consent from both the divorced parents to photograph the kids? The kids themselves?

Check your state laws. The answer will vary immensely. Another reason a global forum like this isn't the best place to talk about law.


> If I’m a photographer, do I have to get consent from both the divorced parents to photograph the kids?

Does a doctor have to get consent from both divorced parents to give a child routine care?


Sometimes, yes.


The point was similar situations exist now. For photographers even. Parents may disagree if a photographer may publish their child's photographs.


> do I have to get consent from both the divorced parents to photograph the kids

In public? Street photography style, you don't have to get any consent, generally.

Why is "both" the issue? You don't have to get the consent of both parents to photograph their kid whether together, married, separated or divorced.


> In public? Street photography style, you don't have to get any consent, generally.

The parent poster proposes changing that.


License plates are owned by the government.


Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


AFAIK that is not correct. They are issued by the government. Required by the government to be displayed on the car if you are driving on public roads. But the plate is not physically owned by the government. The biggest distinction seems to be that in some states it becomes part of the car, and in other states it stays with the driver when ownership of the car changes hands (or the owner of the car can choose either option when selling the car).

As an aside, these days I am guessing the latter is the truth in most states. So many specialty and personalized plate options out there that people are going to want to keep for themselves.

Obviously the government does own a small number of plates, of course, because they attach them to government owned vehicles.


But not where it is in real-time or its location history.


So what?


I think it needs more detail but I like the idea.


What detail do you need?


Then let me put my own software on the hardware I own then.


Well you can. But then it has to be completely your own software (i.e. OS).


> hobbyists can still publish apps in third party stores

I shouldn't need an internet connection just to make an app for a device I own.


Exactly, this would greatly reduce the ability for scammers in "urgent" situations, but for power users who flip the switch on day one it would rarely be a problem. What would be terrible though ... is if Google made it require a network connection or Google approval.


Under that logic, even if the app is "malicious" it would still be possible to install it. And thats not true, if somthing is deemed malicious, its blocked. Is app that hurts Google's dominance "malicious"? Who is it that decides what is malicious?


As a mere mortal I find none of this surprising, mostly because I never understood any of it in the first place ... :)


> (Cue deterministic WASM derivations)

"Rah Rah, this is why we need deterministic wasm derivations!" - Me

(There you go Ericson) Relevant links: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/main/Nondetermini...


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