Hacker News: LazyMans

New comment by LazyMans in "Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards"

LazyMans — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:37:18 +0000

That wasn't the CEO, and "lie" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. A non-product person (CISO) was being asked if a specific feature exists and they believed it did not. Should they have said something along the lines of, "as far as I know, no" yes, they should have. It's a mistake, not a lie. Lie would require intentionally having knowledge of it and trying to obscure that fact.

New comment by LazyMans in "Flock Safety changes system defaults in response to criticisms"

LazyMans — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:37:29 +0000

I think the biggest change I like to see is locking out users on suspicious activity, instead of waiting for police departments to police their own.

Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards

LazyMans — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:37:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-guardrails-address-lpr-privacy-concerns-and-police-transparency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286654

Points: 30

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New comment by LazyMans in "Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up"

LazyMans — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:18:26 +0000

In comparison to what? Buyers usually want this to be lower. Historically quite low still.

New comment by LazyMans in "Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars"

LazyMans — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:36:40 +0000

When humans are involved, it's a given there will be abuse. There always has been and always will be abuse of power, in every single part of society where power can exist. The question becomes what can be done about it? If policing continues to rely more on digital tooling for tasks, there is now a trail of evidence. We should expect tools like this, and really anything digital to have strong tracking of actions performed.

Wether or not an agency takes action on internal or external reports of abuse is a local agency issue it seems.

New comment by LazyMans in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

LazyMans — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:41:36 +0000

Although much less harmful than smoke, nicotine is still not harmless to the cardiovascular system. If the goal is public health, it makes sense to move the needle a little further and try to keep people off nicotine entirely.

Alcohol is another story, we're not ready to remove that yet.

New comment by LazyMans in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

LazyMans — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:09:54 +0000

This might be shifting us closer to worse overall design/performance to accommodate swapability. The pouch cells are very fragile, with the phone itself being the physical protection for the cell. If end users begin to handle these, you likely have to add additional packaging to the cell which increases the overall dimensions or reduces total capacity to maintain the same size.

Maybe it's for our own good, maybe we have to suck it up and lose a little capacity to meet sustainability goals. Or maybe this won't do much for the environment.

New comment by LazyMans in "S3 Files"

LazyMans — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:33:46 +0000

Based on docs, correct.

New comment by LazyMans in "S3 Files"

LazyMans — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:33:30 +0000

They found a way to make money on it by putting a cache in front of it. Less load for them, better performance for you. Maybe you save money, maybe you dont.

New comment by LazyMans in "Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?"

LazyMans — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:20:01 +0000

Correctly identified with 100% accuracy. The author said they can't, but for me the mp3 versions have noticeable high frequency artifacts that make the recording sound slightly less clear. Using Sony XM5

New comment by LazyMans in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

LazyMans — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:01:27 +0000

A good point, but if stress was your motivator, it might be better to work to reframe that and gain motivation through something else that isn't stress.

New comment by LazyMans in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

LazyMans — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:51:07 +0000

I do wonder if this is in part to Spotify educating people with their very much in your face notifications when you set your player to lossless quality mode. They inform you bluetooth won't pass the signal with enough fidelity and to go wired.

I don't think many people thought their expensive Airpods/Bose/Sony were not capable of handling lossless and may feel left out or missing something.

New comment by LazyMans in "Flock license plate readers cost city big, deliver little"

LazyMans — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:53:42 +0000

This is a flawed methodology for measuring success.

Solving a case isn't a single correct search. It's a tool, and a single case could have hundreds of searches associated with it.

As more regulation comes in, as it should, we should get much better auditing data that link each and every search to a specific case. This is evolving quickly at the moment, but ultimately it's up to the public to begin to push for requirements like these.

Currently departments do not necessarily require a case number, as many times a case number has not been created yet.

I think a more fair method to measure success is look at how effective each dollar spent on LE accounts for the whole picture. How much more effective did ALPR make each officer/detective on the force? Generally speaking, these are force multipliers and are much more effective than spending on pure body count. Many departments cannot fill seats even if they wanted to.

New comment by LazyMans in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

LazyMans — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:14:01 +0000

Personally I store locally with a unifi system. Can’t they collect that footage with a warrant too?

New comment by LazyMans in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

LazyMans — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:14:33 +0000

None of these agencies get your video data without your consent. The feature was designed so they have an easy way to present you the request for footage.

Unfortunately a portion of the information getting circulated is the complete opposite.

New comment by LazyMans in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

LazyMans — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:55:34 +0000

Someone called my method “chaotic neutral”

I try to start most days on my machine by closing almost everything I had opened the previous day.

New comment by LazyMans in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

LazyMans — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:33:40 +0000

We have variable speed limits on parts of our roads. People commonly exceed the stated limit by 20+ mph since they're used to "full speed" and ignore the instances where it's being reduced.

I welcome our future robot car overlords where all of these problems should in theory be greatly reduced or eliminated entirely.

New comment by LazyMans in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

LazyMans — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:35:16 +0000

Rolled oats tend to give me anxiety, notice the issue with other large amounts of carbs in the AM. Anybody else have that issue? I figure it's a glycemic index issue. I don't believe the issue was present with steelcut.

New comment by LazyMans in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

LazyMans — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:22:31 +0000

Getting an e-bike has got me out getting exercise way more than a regular bike ever did. Being able to dial my effort up and down pushes me further, quite literally in distance and fitness goals. I'm by no means fit and almost did a 5 hour 40 mile ride one day. I completely used up the battery in that time, my legs were cooked from the effort. I would have never attempted something like that on a regular bike unless I was fit.

New comment by LazyMans in "Anker goes big with new whole home backup system"

LazyMans — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:07:27 +0000

Can confirm. HVAC https://imgur.com/a/yI2AX6D