This was part of how my ADHD was diagnosed. I did a full day of testing at a specialist center. First I had a conversation with a nurse, then a psychologist, then they had me do a similar test (but in a controlled environment and I also had face tracking and a motion sensor monitoring my movement). After the test, I was given lunch and a dose of adhd medication and about an hour break, then they had me do the test again. After that I met with a psychiatrist who walked me through the test results. Then I had another break while the three specialists met to discuss my case and make a diagnosis. Finally I met with the three to hear the outcome (I was also given a full write-up of my results from the day).
My one surprise from this article is that "play a web game for 18 minutes" in an uncontrolled environment was considered enough testing for a diagnosis!
It's been a trip hearing how much testing others have gone through. IIRC, we had all of one conversation with our psychiatrist (albeit one we had already been seeing for a while) and got our diagnosis. But then it wasn't exactly subtle ADHD.
For our autism assessment a couple months ago, our therapist (whom we've been seeing for about a year at that point?) had us take one or two relatively short multiple choice assessments or the like and that was enough to diagnose us as on the spectrum. Did you know: Not all autistics struggle with eye contact? Some of us (ourselves included) are actually pretty good at it. One reason it's called a spectrum!
The previous time with our mental health professionals factored into their diagnoses, though, not just the tests. The takeaway: Book a therapist and psychiatrist both if you don't already and get those balls rolling.
Your job is just going to change. You may or may not appreciate/enjoy what it becomes necessarily, but it doesn't mean that you are going to not have a job.
People underestimate how people hate looking at terminals and "weird looking combination of characters" even if they didn't have to write them. If anything, you will likely have more career opportunities in the future, than ever.
And if you get a chance to wet your fingers in cybersecurity - I would take it.
> And if you get a chance to wet your fingers in cybersecurity - I would take it.
Could you explain more? Did some ethical hacking at hackthebox.eu (one insane box, one hard box and a few mediums). But I do not see how I will give additional value to a model.
Just a SWE and data analyst at work, so maybe I am missing something.
I think this really depends on what is interesting to you, personally. Something that you can have fun while doing, without breaking laws.
For example, I'm a privacy nerd, so I like reverse engineering proprietary software to figure out how it works and what data it collects.
I also like getting full access to the hardware I own - like a robot vacuum (bonus point: you'll also learn soldering, probably, which might come in handy if robots take over). Or my Mac studio that imposes some limitations on me on how many active user sessions I can have.
These kinds of things have put me on a path where I've learned how hardware or networking works on deepest levels, what goes through these pipes, how I can place myself in the middle, how I can enter places someone didn't want me to enter.
And once you know how to do these things, you know how to apply this knowledge in defence.
Essentially: always be curious and always try to say "but I want to" when something that doesn't cross the boundary of your physical property says no to you (legally).
Yes, models like Mythos may find vulnerabilities, but your knowledge will make it possible to point it in the right direction, and understand where it's mistaken, or to understand the output when it's right, and what is the right course of action.
Ah, the “I am an expert so I can guide it argument”. Not sure if you are right or wrong. I do know this is the argument that many software engineers claim as well.
Yea, I don’t know if it will hold up. I hope so. It could. I don’t know if it would or wouldn’t.
Get any model, any reasoning level, ask it to tackle a challenge, have it come up with a plan. Then ask it "are you sure? This feels wrong", and it will now think it's wrong. Do that again in a loop and you'll see how unnecessary human judgment actually is.
Or alternatively, have fable write some complex code. Then ask it to do an adversarial review of that code in a clean session. You'll find that it will find issues in the code that it just wrote.
Now imagine you're a layperson who doesn't know which one is true.
Human expertise is never going to become irrelevant.
Yea fair. I have that when I ask an LLM to prove the Riemann hypothesis. I am not mathematically mature. So I can’t see if it approaches it in any way that might yield some insight.
Because your personal projects likely are not very complex and not high stakes. And you are not responsible to anyone but yourself.
If you're working at a place where this is true about the the organization, then sure, that job will likely be gone. But that was never a good place for your career regardless.
I have 4 concurrent personal projects that are quite complex, but low stakes. I can have SOTA models go wild on them (because low stakes), but they can't one shot anything there. And I can't really work on more than one at a time, even if AI is doing coding - it still requires supervision.
I also frequently nuke these projects and start over because they made a mess there, but I collected necessary knowledge on how to guide them better. You can't do this on a production project, not when there are deadlines and stakeholders.
But just in case some organizations decide to embrace the "trust it blindly" model anyway - cybersecurity specialization will ensure you always have a job.
If you think the job is just writing code then yes you are screwed, just like if you thought your job was just making punch cards. In most roles you have more responsibilities than plainly converting words into text. You're probably not being paid to simply be a human calculator (otherwise you'd be paid a lot less!).
I don't think the job is just writing code. But my career has mostly been about getting a ticket and writing a solution for it. I would really like to solve novel problems, but I don't get many novel problems to solve.
I can architect things but the issue is that Claude can architect things too.
I haven't tried Fable yet but my experience with Claude is it does not engineer things well. Without direction from me, it will either over-engineer things to the point of absurdity, or do the total opposite and have little to no abstraction with repeated code everywhere.
You do realize that this is likely a 10 trillion parameter model that takes something like 20 terabytes of RAM to run inference? Calculate the price for all this VRAM .... It's not getting cheaper in the next few "months".
Scrolling is a bad habit. It's hard to kill habits outright, so you need to replacement.
Step one is figuring out what triggers the habit. Step two is finding a replacement.
Something that worked for me is keeping certain websites to the "big screen" (aka my computer). If I want to browse Reddit I have to get up and go to my PC. I've blocked it on my phone. For me, scrolling on my PC is a little more managable because hey while I'm there and looking at Reddit, I can open up a terminal and update my packages, or check my todos, or put on music...
Given that I recently joined a leatherworking Discord comprised of individuals pretty much the exact opposite of my demographic, I believe this is just plain wrong.
My guess would be near half, probably a 60/40 split.
Equivocating speech and crime as both being "violence" (of similar class, deserving similar response) is a fallacy that lets people justify murder in response to disagreement as long as it's deemed serious enough.
Yes it's not violence, but it's not speech either. Donating money is performing material harm. That might be an unfortunate reality, but it's undeniable. It's a different thing from just saying something.
Also, you can absolutely be fired for just saying something and that's been the case forever. As a CEO, you are essentially marketing your company. Marketing it poorly and losing customers can, and will, get you fired - in every company, ever.
Really? Having an opinion endorsed by the mainstream doctrine of several world religions with billions of adherents is the same as robbing a bank?
That being said, I disagree with Eich and it probably made sense for the org to let him go given how his views might impact public perception of Mozilla.
As someone who became vegetarian after reading a Glenn Greenwald article I found on HN about how the pork industry does awful things and gets the government to prosecute people trying to expose it, the key I've found is to look to world cuisine.
Many cultures around the world have awesome food that's easily convertible to vegetarian or is vegetarian already, where meat might be a luxury.
Central America and the Caribbean have tons of dishes with rice, beans, plantains, and flavorful sauces with flatbreads. Or a million ways to prepare corn. West Africa has peanut stew that's amazing. Across the rest of the continent jollof rice and githeri are good solid bases for a meal. Misir wot is a spicy hearty lentil stew. North Africa has a rich vegetarian tradition of soups, stews, and rice dishes. In the middle east there's falafel, hummus, mujadara, shakshuka and about a million ways to combine spices, onions, tomatoes, flatbreads, etc. South Asia obviously has a massive vegetarian cultural tradition, as does Southeast and East Asia.
When I started, I found it hard. I kept thinking "beans and rice... I guess?" Once I started going, "ok, I'm going to pick a small region of the world and see what they eat there and try it" I had WAY more success. The first time I made tteok-bokki or sushi or vareniki I suddenly realized just how much of the world is really already preparing vegetarian meals for many of their meals.
> FBI agents are devoting substantial resources to a multistate hunt for two baby piglets that the bureau believes are named Lucy and Ethel. The two piglets were removed over the summer from the Circle Four Farm in Utah by animal rights activists who had entered the Smithfield Foods-owned factory farm to film the brutal, torturous conditions in which the pigs are bred in order to be slaughtered.
> Rather than leave the two piglets at Circle Four Farm to wait for an imminent and painful death, the DxE activists decided to rescue them. They carried them out of the pens where they had been suffering and took them to an animal sanctuary to be treated and nursed back to health.
ICE is currently shooting peaceful protestors and is gearing up for war with Venezuela; a couple of pigs chasing a couple of pigs is the least of my concerns viz-a-viz tax dollars
Sorta. The animal welfare laws say that getting images out of food production facilities are terrorism. Which suggests that an authoritarian regime could/would deploy a lot more of the state power against them.
And I think "understanding your food sources is terrorism" has impacts too people should be worried about. (To be clear, they ARE less acute than ICE concerns, of course).
Thanks for your response. But I think you've misunderstood.
I'm pretty well aware of the deep well of cuisines offered by various cultures, but my issue is not finding recipes -- it's the time I and effort spend cooking.
My current job takes a lot of time and energy out of me, by the time I get home I'm pretty exhausted. I don't really get any time to cook throughout the week. (Which kinda sucks, I did enjoy cooking)
I rely a lot on quick meals from Trader Joe's or something I can just toss in the microwave. And while Trader Joe's does have some vegan/vegetarian selections like that, it's kinda limited.
I don't know Trader Joe and what they offer but here's some quick preps I found convenient:
- cereals and lentils/beans semolina. Mix with oil, spices and hot water. Cover and wait 5 minutes.
- Cans of beans, lentils, chickpeas mixed with pre-made tabbouleh or another carb. Oil/spice and eat.
- Various marinated tofu: they're delicious own they own and don't need prep: open and bite.
- Instant mashed lentils/slip peas/quinoa (flakes). Oil/spice/water and eat.
- Tempeh: microwave and dip in sauce.
- bread and houmous.
- bread and nuts.
- Vegetable that can be eaten raw: rince and eat. Dip in sauces if you like. Carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, radishes, chicory, small iceberg salads...
- Fruits. rince and eat.
The trick is to have a few different oils and spices, those add taste and nutrients. Also you can add to anything a spoon of brewer's yeast if you're into that (cheese/fermented taste) or of silken tofu for more creamyness.
I don't understand your comment. Is it an attempt at humor? Don't be a dick.
I don't object to eating animals, I object to torturing animals in the process of raising them. You can raise pork without forcing mother pigs to indefinitely share a space with a pile of their rotting children's carcasses.
Ask yourself why it warrants a terrorism charge to smuggle out photos of animal mistreatment.
You're unfairly extrapolating from your own experience here -- everyone's body has different chemistry.
I have to eat breakfast in the morning in order to feel energetic during the day. But specifically, I need a high-protein, high-fiber breakfast. Anything else makes me feel lethargic and tired.
Good to know that neurotypical people mostly likely test differently than I did.