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by yeck 3y ago
I agree. There are many python packages that have other dependencies not managed by Python package management. The pain of figuring out what those implicit dependencies are is effectively removed for users when configured as a nix shell.
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by yeck 3y ago
I've played around with it a little bit, but not enough to make any judgements on it. Something like devbox could be the sort of thing to make nix-shell accessible enough to see wider adoption.
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by yeck 3y ago
Cool, that definitely sounds like a welcome improvement.
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by yeck 3y ago
There is definitely a learning investment in order to write good Nix expressions. But, if you write a good nix shell expression for your project, other devs should be able to jump in without really needing to understand those Nix expression
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by yeck 3y ago
Nix package manager's `nix-shell` is something I wish more people knew about. Nix is gaining some popularity, but people often think of using it has to be a really big commitment, like changing your Linux distro to NixOS or replacing y
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by yeck 3y ago
I was using Nim for some of last years Advent of Code problems. I was mostly liking the syntax. Was a bit bother by the standard library have a snake case and camel case reference for each function (if I'm remember that correctly). At
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by yeck 3y ago
It seems hard to imagine a board member that is involved in another tech business not having a conceivable conflict of interests. LLMs are on a course to disrupt pretty much all forms of knowledge work after all. Also big implications for h
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by yeck 3y ago
> Separately, a person familiar with the matter told The Verge that the board never received a letter about such a breakthrough and that the company’s research progress didn’t play a role in Altman’s sudden firing. This isn't a refu
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by yeck 3y ago
So we have sources claiming there is a letter, and another source claiming there is not. Feel like some people would need to start going on the record before anything might reasonably be determined from this.
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by yeck 3y ago
Where do you see it being rolled back?
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by yeck 3y ago
If they actually have AGI, then being at the helm of could represent more power than any amount of money could. Money just gives you access to human labour, which would suddenly be massively devalued for those with access to AGI.
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by yeck 3y ago
Sam even recently alluded to something that could have been a reference to this. "Witnessing he veil of ignorance being pulled back" or something like that.
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by yeck 3y ago
Elon was once "in possession" (influential investor and part of the board) of OpenAI, but it was since taken from him and he is evidently bitter about it.
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by yeck 3y ago
Depends who gets onto the board. There are probably a lot of forces interested in ousting him now, so he'd need to do an amazing job vetting the new board members. My guess is that he has less than a year, based on the my assumption th
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by yeck 3y ago
I was about to say this. Only correct answer.
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by yeck 3y ago
In my immediate family I have 3 people that have taken multi-year periods away from work for health reasons. Two are mental health related and the other severe arthritis. 2 of those 3 will probably never work again for the rest of their liv
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by yeck 3y ago
Oh, that's sounds like it could be a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing. I'll remember that for when my little one is a bit older :)
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by yeck 3y ago
> the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever _Big sigh_.
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by yeck 3y ago
Yeah. I need to take a break from theory crafting on this one. Too many surprises that have made it hard to draw a coherent line.
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by yeck 3y ago
They are both just data being made hard to read, though. You could pretty much sum up the "risks" of encryption as: you want to read some data that someone else didn't want you to read. Which means you might fail to detect so
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by yeck 3y ago
I don't really know if he was betrayed because the relationships and communication between Sam and the rest of the board that voted him out isn't exactly public. To use language feels like you are already taking despite lacking in
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by yeck 3y ago
> And yet no one is talking about "encryption safety Okay, you are getting me off topic, but this is totally not the case. Hasn't governments been especially interesting in dealing with encryption lately? UK or EU (can't r
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by yeck 3y ago
Musk fired most of the engineers. I'd be pretty surprised if we see the level of attrition at OpenAI getting within an order of magnitude of that. We are just making predictions, though. I could be way off the mark and many more people
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by yeck 3y ago
Those are not the only things to research, but I wouldn't assume that capability-base research would stop. I mean, they want to create AI to perform AI alignment, so their road map includes capability research. The for-profit bender th
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by yeck 3y ago
I'm actually pretty impressed that they are sticking to their (non-profit) charter against so much pressure. While this was not a "clean" maneuverer I'm not really in a position to judge, given my lack of context. Perhap
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by yeck 3y ago
I'd say it sounds like they want to go faster with research and slower with commercializing the outputs of the research.
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by yeck 3y ago
Well, despite what Musk did, X (Twitter?) has still been limping along for quite a while now. While more abrupt and surprising, this doesn't seem nearly as bad as that.
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by yeck 3y ago
Thank god
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by yeck 3y ago
I get the sense that there was not a lot of time to do this before Sam was too difficult to remove and appropriated the brand and assets. From the reading on this I did this evening (which was much more than I probably should have) I had se
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by yeck 3y ago
Hard to say what the impact on access to talent will be. I know people working in AI that wouldn't consider working at OpenAI out of perceived recklessness. At least one that I've been speaking with during this weekend said that t

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