Hacker News: LadyCailin

New comment by LadyCailin in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

LadyCailin — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:57:15 +0000

I saw it happen during Katrina. Neighborhoods within an easy drive of each other where one had power, and the other not. Not to mention the fact that vehicle charging stations may well be prioritized to restore power.

It’s niche just because natural disasters are thankfully relatively rare, but I still think having good contingencies is worth it.

Fuck being seen in a cybertruck though.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Police chief unplugs Flock cameras after company ignores contract cancellation"

LadyCailin — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 19:13:57 +0000

The data can still be sold to other municipalities. That’s kind of the problem here, handling this as anything other than a privacy violation, because anything else allows them to just lease private land to install them, then sell the data to whoever wants it. But the US has been anti privacy for a while now.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

LadyCailin — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:17:20 +0000

> You'd be taxing something you want citizens to have: wealth.

Disagree with the premise. I want people with less than $50m to have more wealth, and people with more than $50m to have less wealth.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

LadyCailin — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:04:32 +0000

I think that’s the underlying criticism. If the enterprise is risky, speculative, or just straight up bullshit, then selling the shovels is the smartest move.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

LadyCailin — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:56:38 +0000

A modest proposal, really.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

LadyCailin — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:53:49 +0000

The Nazis pushed for anti smoking policies.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

LadyCailin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:01:52 +0000

Just have the agent rederive the revert, based on the facts of whatever made the change inappropriate.

New comment by LadyCailin in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

LadyCailin — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:26:19 +0000

You may not always be that rich, and having to liquidate your only house to pay the taxes is and should be an unpopular opinion.

New comment by LadyCailin in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

LadyCailin — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:24:23 +0000

Tracking for thee but not for me

New comment by LadyCailin in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

LadyCailin — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:58:05 +0000

Is it fraud for me to spawn a bunch of bots to listen to YOUR music? In fact, this has happened before, and people who are not involved at all get punished for the fraud that they didn’t commit. So it’s a quite tricky problem, and I agree that it just isn’t that straightforward.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

LadyCailin — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:35:02 +0000

Do you think the people in the 1700s would have approved of having police follow everyone around at all times in public spaces, taking notes? I think it’s easy to imagine how they would feel in principle, even if they couldn’t imagine the specific technology.

New comment by LadyCailin in "An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why"

LadyCailin — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:59:39 +0000

The same way we hold dog owners and parents accountable, but I guess that doesn’t directly service capitalism, so is fine to regulate.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude"

LadyCailin — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:35:26 +0000

Can you just not use Reddit at all anymore without the app?

New comment by LadyCailin in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

LadyCailin — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:21:57 +0000

Haha, as if the constitution matters anymore.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

LadyCailin — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:21:17 +0000

With the current political climate, that might be tantamount to destruction of evidence or contempt, and be the worst of all options. The problem isn’t any particular technical thing, it’s that the US government has become authoritarian and fascist, there is no legal “gotcha” that will ultimately work here.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

LadyCailin — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:50:50 +0000

Kind of hard to feel sorry for the richest country in the world when they refuse to spend enough money to take care of their people enough to even meet basic national security standards.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Asking authors about their own papers"

LadyCailin — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:45:07 +0000

In academic settings, it’s also plagiarism to copy your own previous work. Given that, I’m not sure academia gets to take the high ground on what constitutes misconduct or not wrt to plagiarism, at least in the edge cases.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Whoisinspace.com/"

LadyCailin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:34:34 +0000

Outsourcing to cheaper locales is the unregulated free market at work. Why would the free market pay you more when I can pay less to someone else, for equivalent enough work? Because you’re an American? The unregulated market does not care about that factor. Manufacturing doesn’t pay enough to attract workers, if it did, this wouldn’t be a problem.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Whoisinspace.com/"

LadyCailin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:29:26 +0000

He went down my drain a long time ago for the same reason. I also find it funny how his good ole boy down south project to make a grill scrubber has basically just re-discovered what all the predominately atheist city slickers have been trying to tell the predominantly Republican voting south, which is that unregulated free market capitalism is the problem.

New comment by LadyCailin in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

LadyCailin — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:41:32 +0000

You need licenses for a lot of things though, particularly for things where there is substantial harm to be done when done incorrectly. This is just how it goes as things get more popular. Think back to 1903, there was no FAA then, but also no need for one. But it would be super disingenuous to argue now that airspace should be totally unregulated.

I think the problem with this debate in general is that people aren’t recognizing the harm, and are clinging on to old ideas about how the world should work, ideas that just don’t acknowledge the reality of how things change as technology changes, or even just spreads. Rejecting the idea that there are harms, and thus nothing should be done, just ensures you don’t have a seat at the table at all when it comes to the inevitable decision to do the regulation.