henryaj

Does $50/MWh account for intermittency (i.e. the capital cost of building and running CCGT to cover the load when it's not sunny or windy)?

How about the 11,000+ people who have pledged to donate at least 10% of their income for life: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/members

You mean like donating hundreds of millions of dollars to bednets, or cash grants to the world's poorest?

Mania is a hell of a performance enhancer.

Just baffles me when people are like "well no-one's died yet". How long until some mission-critical system is compromised, or hackers use LLMs to ransom a hospital chain?

Hugging Face incident, Anthropic reporting sandbox escape, AISI reporting models trying to push exploits to the wild

The HN crowd has a notable anti-AI bias - so it doesn’t surprise me

What evidence do you have for any of this?

> If we trust 1Password with our data, we are trusting a company with those views inside it with our data.

Is this really true? Your data is presumably encrypted at rest on their servers; you're not "trusting" them with it any more than you're trusting S3 when you send encrypted blobs to it. The political alignment of Jeff Bezos doesn't really come into it.

You're certainly supporting them with your money - that seems like the real objection here.

> In the UK there's severe limitations on freedom of speech

Sure, but those are just as controversial here as in the US, in a way that ANPR is a non-issue.

Any idea why this is so much less acceptable to people in the US than in the UK? In the UK we've had ANPR for more than twenty years and AFAICT there's no mass controversy surrounding it. It catches people with no licence, no insurance, who are wanted in various serious crimes. I'm surprised at the difference in attitude.

(I am aware that the UK has a less-than-stellar privacy track record... but nonetheless it's curious that for this particular technology, as opposed to the Online Safety Act, there's such a difference.)

I assume it does happen at a different layer, just that that layer is common to all of a provider's models to make conversations portable across models (otherwise the reasoning blocks would all need to be re-encrypted for them work with another model)

I enjoyed many a pint in that pub during my student days at UCL!

> This is my problem with the classical Consequentialism or Utilitarianism, they always discount emotions. I'm sorry, does emotion exists or not? Is it real? Then it should be brought into discussion

This is not true of rationalists! "Straw Vulcan" as a failure mode was talked about fifteen years ago - https://www.lesswrong.com/w/straw-vulcan

Damore wasn't a rationalist but his memo was at least somewhat reasonable, and didn't merit him being cancelled.

> From this, you could argue it’s OK to work for an unethical company if it maximizes your earning potential — and thus, saves more lives through the donations you make. And finally, the harms caused today could be offset by the benefits to generations yet unborn

Do people do this in practice? 80K for example (EA not rat, but EA is the policy arm of rationalism after all) expressly warn against this. Feels like a strawman.

The 'return' in these cases is social return, not profit.

Paywalled, and HBR articles are famously not a good source

Show HN:

I built Flock because I kept failing at productivity in isolation. Flock is simple: you see your todos alongside your friends' todos in real-time. Creates gentle social pressure to follow through.

- Real-time dashboard showing your friends' progress alongside yours - Vim-style keyboard shortcuts (j/k, space to complete) for power users - Built-in pomodoro timer - Goal tracking to organize todos by area of focus - Beeminder integration for quantified-self types - Works with Claude via MCP — ask Claude what's on your list, add todos by voice - Dark mode, command palette (⌘K), drag-and-drop reordering

I've been using it daily with a small group of friends for months and the effect on my follow-through has been significant.

Has it? It's still on the App Store. Is it just not in active development?

I absolutely hated doing Cyber Essentials (Plus). Huge waste of time