Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work?

Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by buildbot on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:59PM (#40611767)

A lot do, personally, every single time I try to go back to conda/mamba whatever, I get some extremely weird C/C++ related linking bug - just recently, I ran into an issue where the environment was _almost_ completely isolated from the OS distro's C/C++ build infra, except for LD, which was apparently so old it was missing the vpdpbusd instruction (https://github.com/google/XNNPACK/issues/6389). Except the thing was, that wouldn't happen when building outside of of the Conda environment. Very confusing. Standard virtualenvs are boring but nearly always work as expected in comparison.

I'm an Applied Scientist vs. ML Engineer, if that matters.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by astromaniak on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:34PM (#40614847)

It's probably easier to reinstall everything anew from time to time. Instead of fixing broken 18.04 just move to 22.04. Most tools should work, if you don't have huge codebase which requires old compiler...

Conda.. it interfere with OS setup and has not always the best utils. Like ffmpeg is compiled with limited options, probably due to licensing.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by buildbot on Saturday June 08, 2024 @02:10AM (#40615638)

I do all the time, and always have (in fact my first job was bare metal OS install automation), this was Rocky 9.4. New codebase, new compiler weird errors. I did actually reinstall and switch over to Ubuntu 24.04 after that issue lol.

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