bko

> you'd rather autistically defer to the bizarre overlapping and bureaucratic rule-making nuances of a flawed, regularly-abused legal system

What is the law besides "bizarre overlapping and bureaucratic rule making"? You can't charge people on vibes like "underlying values and beliefs"

So you believe math is a jobs program. We do more work, don't need as many mathematicians, although there doesn't necessarily mean fewer as they're now a lot more productive.

Knowledge and discovery isn't the point, it's that this particular group of people are in sole control of the pace and what gets discovered

You think if researchers in math got tens of millions they would have solved these problems?

What's your mental model here?

Again, oai is giving mathematicians millions, they're hiring them to work on purely academic problems. Funding has increased considerably.

What is the problem?

So explain it. Is it press releases?

This technology lets you do research a lot more efficiently. It's all there. If you're interested is solving interesting problems there has never been a better time. If you're interested in being the first to solve outstanding problems from decades ago, maybe not as good, but then again let's be honest, chances are you weren't going to solve them anyway.

I don't know what "the credit" means. They're spending tens of millions to solve these problems, hire academics at insane salaries and give out millions in research credits. You care about language on some press release?

Academics are paid tiny sums at post doc and professor levels. Oai comes along paying millions to these people and giving them the tools and support to actually solve problems.

It's funny you compare it to bicycle racing rather than automotive technology which I imagine you would have to concede that pushing the frontier of things like fuel efficiency and safety would be good.

This stuff reads as cope by scientists who spent their entire careers chasing these problems. The idea that someone was just around the corner to solving a problem that's been outstanding for decades, and the model used their brilliant recent insights to crack it (ignoring the cutoff date, that would have to be fabricated as well).

Why aren't you excited for pushing the frontier of knowledge. Unless you think math is really a jobs program for gifted individuals keeping them busy and unproductive.

Congrats! You just hit the clever hypothetical on my anti flock bingo card!

Step one: find two things that differ in nearly every relevant respect

Step two: identify the broad category they share.

Step three: ask, “If you accept one, why don’t you accept the other?”

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/anti-flock-activist-bing...

Or they move to a neighborhood not patrolled by flock?

You hold such a ridiculous position I don't know how to argue with it. Cops don't care about crime or stolen property? Why have cops at all? It's like arguing w a third grader

I think his point is that the people that are against the technology will never change their mind, regardless of what you do to assuage them. It's a lost cause.

Everyone and every business makes mistakes. We don't go on an apology tour every time we make a mistake. On the net he believes he's doing good in this world.

For instance, a mistake he spoke about was not providing strict enough guards on operators, allowing them to conduct unlawful searches. He's since corrected that and looks for new ways to restrict and audit platform access. What's the point of dwelling on this? Is the anti-flock lunatic cutting down cameras going to read the press release and think "gee, Flock is turning a new leaf", obviously not. It just adds more fuel to the fire taking away from the good work they do.

SF has (had?) a lot of car thefts.

Suppose there was a technology where, when you report your car as stolen, police would be able to track exactly where this car is currently and it's history over the last 2 weeks.

You don't think this would have ANY impact of police being able to apprehend the thief?

In Houston, three cameras near an attempted child abduction had been cut down. Police Chief Noe Diaz said investigators consequently could not use them to identify and track the suspect's red sedan.

Why do anti-flock activists insist that it doesn't help police apprehend criminals. It obviously does. It only makes sense that a police officer having access to cameras that track license plates in real time would help apprehend criminals escaping capture. Come on, you don't seriously believe this. What would have to be true about the world, police, criminals etc of this not to be true.

https://www.police1.com/alprs-in-focus/why-cities-are-rethin...

> A small sample of this is people cutting down Flock cameras. That's a "crime" that wouldn't even exist had these mass surveillance networks not been constructed in the first place.

You can't destroy public property because you disagree with a policy. Let me give you an example.

Suppose I am against abortion. Firebombing an abortion clinic is a "crime" that wouldn't exist had these places that kill unborn children not been constructed in the first place.

Do you get it now?

I am a pro-flock real person. I'll get down-voted and likely flagged for saying this so you may believe I don't exist but I do.

Crime has gone down considerably in the last two years.

> The declines were reflected in several of the FBI’s long-term measures. The 2025 robbery rate of 49.4 per 100,000 was the lowest in 20 years, while the rape rate of 36.1 was the lowest since 2012. The murder rate was the lowest in the past 20 years.

I imagine giving police the ability to apprehend violent criminals through technology is driving this reduction in crime. Not a stretch. You can think that this is not worth the tradeoff, but if you think giving police a tool like Flock will not have an impact of apprehension of criminals you have your head in the sand.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/violent-crime-falls-at-hist...

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/flock-mass-surveillance-and...

What does this mean? Flock CEO will start... killing people?

I don't think the equivalent of waiting periods make sense.

If anything they should just ban advertising. Simple, worked for smoking for the most part, and we have precedent as it's harmful. Why does every sporting event have so many ads and sponsorships by these betting companies.

The worst thing about these sites is that they're necessarily net negative. If you win regularly, you'll be kicked off these platforms. They only want dumb money. True prediction markets are different since they're don't market makers and just enforce the contracts and there are people on each side. But the whole draft-kings type gambling markets are just awful

> First off, $2k is the price of the new iPhone Duo. Suggesting that that is basically the same thing as a $500 Android phone is... strange.

Okay fine, it's $1,400 for a latest iPhone Pro with 512gb of storage. Point still stands.

> Most of it comes from enterprise contracts. Those might be more price sensitive because the CFO gets a say in which vendor they choose.

I think enterprise contracts are even less sensitive to price than consumer. That's the whole idea behind enterprise pricing. You'll see companies charge multiple times as much just for SSO for instance.

There are limits to this obviously, but to think that major commercial enterprises will switch over to some Chinese models to save some money is laughable.

The online crowd harping on about Chinese models is disconnected from reality imo.

I won't use a Chinese model. Why would i bother? I pay $100/m for the frontier model, understanding it's marginally better than much cheaper alternatives. I get so much value from the product it's not worth shopping around

Think of it like apple and android. Plenty of people pay 2k for their iPhone every few years when android at 1/4 the price is just as functional. Why? Because they get so much excess value from the device it's not worth shopping around. For most people it's their only personal computer. From booking airfare, to filling out their kids permission slips, it's a device they use 10+ hours a week. They don't bother, until a paradigm shift happens and something is 10x better than the iPhone. I imagine llms will follow the same trajectory

The S-1 is already out of date. Q3 revenue is $16.8b compared to $11.6b in Q2 (reflected in the S1).

I get why revenue blew up from say from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026, but this was surprising. 45% QoQ growth. When does it stop?

I think that's related to the snarky "controversial" takes that humans are way too into group acceptance and irrationality.

It's irrational to return the wallet if you were to consider just your well being. However, being we value being part of a group, and that group is the kind that returns wallets it finds.

Overall most of the answers are pretty much reddit tier cringe, but I guess here it's just echoing what is found online. LLMs are capable of novel insights but to produce them, you have to let the LLM grind a bit. I would be curious if someone asked why or what are the implications for a few hours.

> Humans are more loyal to belonging than to truth

> Why?

> Belonging to a larger group is advantageous to survival and reproduction

> Why?

> ...

There's two ways arresting people safeguards society. You mentioned meaningful redemption. The other is removing the criminal from the general public which prevents them from harming others. Time takes care of a lot as it's overwhelmingly < 50 year olds that commit violent crime.

At 18 he hit his father in the head with a baseball bat. Not sure if he killed him.

That's all the info in the first chapter of his book. It's kind of gross gleeful description of the act. Don't think the book is for me.

In the comment he says he was homeless at 19 so at most he got less than 2 years prison.

Why are you "holding the bag" You're early career math students. I know a lot of industries that would love to hire you.

Even if you want to work in research, AI offers a lot of opportunities to do even more research, and less grunt work

This is cool, but isn't owning property bordering public land undesirable?

Sure, there's the ability to hike directly from your home, but I imagine you'll regularly have people wander on to your property. And if something illegal happens on your property by a different party, you might be liable.

Seems like the cons outweigh the pros. Or is there something I'm missing?

I think most Americans think we should have a sensible border policy and some way to identify and remove the 5-10m illegal immigrants that came in over the Biden administration.

You should rethink your position as it's not going to give you the electoral wins you think it will.

> I've never seen this much outrage over flock cameras on here or on most tech forums.

Are we on the same platform? Search Flock on HN, below are the top results

Stop Flock

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed

An interactive map of Flock Cams

Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=flock

If they offer you two prices, one month to month and and other for 1 year, and the 1 year is discounted, I would think that the 1 year one is a commitment. Is this not the case? Why would they offer a discount compared to the month to month if there is no difference as to whether you can cancel?

Vendor disputes literally happen every day. There's likely billions of accounts payable overdue on any given day. It sounds like you're not familiar w this space.

Yes, they are held to a higher standard. That's why the surveillance tools police rely on are strictly controlled and monitored, unlike what this guy is doing.

So it appears we agree.

This is Canada so there is no Flock. Try again.