Hacker News: tempaccount5050

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "We let AIs run radio stations"

tempaccount5050 — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:30:20 +0000

I don't live near a big city and that's the point I'm trying to make. Yes I know the Internet exists. That isn't radio.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "We let AIs run radio stations"

tempaccount5050 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:50:19 +0000

What stations? All of the stations I can pick up in my area are top 40 country, rock, and pop, + npr.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "We let AIs run radio stations"

tempaccount5050 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:04:42 +0000

On actual radio waves?

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "We let AIs run radio stations"

tempaccount5050 — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:52:31 +0000

You're missing the point. Radio was consolidated into Clear Channel and took away what made radio radio. Local radio. Like what made Chicago jazz different from New York jazz etc. Not internet stations that may as well be podcasts. Regional culture.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

tempaccount5050 — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:54:39 +0000

No one uses it outside of tech or office jobs. There's no use case.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

tempaccount5050 — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:52:58 +0000

If you leave large metro areas you'll find people are absolutely rabidly against AI. Go to a little blue collar town and ask about it where there are no hip coffee shops for wfh techies.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

tempaccount5050 — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:50:06 +0000

Nah, I wrote physics programs on my computer at home in high school and it absolutely helped with my schooling. Yeah, maybe iPad apps aren't the best things in schools but you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Computers bad is simply not true.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

tempaccount5050 — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:27:20 +0000

#thanksimcured

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:33:28 +0000

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. "Liking" or blindly accepting everyone regardless of what believe or do just because you have known them for some period of time is silly.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:32:35 +0000

Homogeny is not good for society.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:33:41 +0000

Worrying about what other people think is the biggest waste of energy. I'm glad a lot of people wouldn't be friends with me because of some of my ideals. I don't want to be liked by everyone. Why would you?

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:02:53 +0000

When you're going 35 mph and suddenly hit a 2 ft deep puddle (I've done this), that sensor isn't going to help at all.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

tempaccount5050 — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:46:54 +0000

You can't automate it as it will require you to make big changes to your infra. It can take a year or more to actually do when you have a full team dedicated to it. Absolute outside the realm of a self service process.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

tempaccount5050 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:43:27 +0000

I didn't stay long enough to find out, but yeah, they probably would have. The pressure was definitely to default to deny it. That's what the run books (very few) were defaulted to. It was really just a bunch of expendable people to deny claims. The turnover was wild for obvious reasons.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

tempaccount5050 — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:30:54 +0000

I'm talking about off-boarding not general day to day security.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

tempaccount5050 — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:13:43 +0000

In the early 2000s I got a job right out of highschool working at a Blue Cross Blue Shields call center. I thought it was going to be customer service but it was insurance claims. Training was supposed to be 6 weeks but they pushed me live after just 2. I had no idea what I was doing. After floundering for a couple weeks trying to learn to basically be a fuckin doctor, I just started approving everything. "Patient needs emergency surgery for X" "Approved". The whole experience was completely insane.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

tempaccount5050 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:15:19 +0000

Yeah I don't see why that's necessary. I'm sure you can always reach out to HR and ask (I have facilitated this in the past, pulling contact lists and phone numbers) but that also gives them ways to exfiltrate data. It's company data. Just think of all the info you have in your inbox. Unless you've managed offboarding for high level IT positions it seems harsh, but the risk is just too high to allow the user to do that stuff themselves.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

tempaccount5050 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:01:39 +0000

When you are talking about access like they had "make firings as abrupt as possible including terminating all access immediately" not doing this is incompetence. This is absolutely a standard and has to be for these kinds of positions. I've never worked anywhere where it wasn't for the majority of IT staff. You meet with HR, someone clears your desk, and security walks you out.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube"

tempaccount5050 — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:53:29 +0000

No one said you can't do it. There's just no reason to do it. Tube amps are basically a standard and it's what the amp repair guys know how to work on and it's easiest to work on.

New comment by tempaccount5050 in "The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube"

tempaccount5050 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:16:05 +0000

Eh. As far as instrument amps go, it's not about perfect fidelity. It's about color and distortion. You'd never say "perfectly white lights are the best for your living room." No one actually wants a perfect white light, people want some more yellow in there because it looks better. The goal isn't equal spectrum coverage or whatever. People like the non-linearity of tubes and that's ok.