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Ask HN: ML and Monorepos
Hello HN. Is there anyone here who uses monorepos for their ML projects, at work or otherwise? What's your opinion on the matter?

What tools and patterns do you use? What challenges did you encounter? What seemed a good idea in the beginning, but turned out a mess?

For some context, for every ML project, I keep my ML training, pre-processing, experiments, and serving code together, making it a kind of monorepo (very rudimentary). But when it comes to testing and building parts of the project, it's kind of a mess. I tried using some git log magic to keep it a bit cleaner, when it comes to running tests, builds, and re-trainings, but I wonder how others are doing it.
When did they start charging for restoration? Are you doing something other than just downloading it?
Sorry, but the last bit is complete and utter bollocks. Never, ever don't mention this. Please delete this dangerous misinformation that might keep people from looking for help in times of need.
Speaking as someone who just took a take-home exam and used ChatGPT to complete it (documented, checked with the prof before, etc.) I may have some insight here. Also relevant: my PhD mentor is leading a synchronous/asynchronous discussion among the local academia folks regarding this specific concern.

The short takeaway is that it’s a huge problem when it comes to test taking. Untimed power tests are the gold standard for assessing student knowledge. The epitome of this kind of test (in any discipline) is a take home exam with extensive short/long answer questions. The test is open-internet, open notes, open everything, except for collaboration. It has been proven for a long time that this is the best way to assess whether or not a student has learned the material. The worst alternative is a stressful in-person exam that is closed-everything. This alternative produces many false negatives. Anxiety, slow test taking, etc. cause students who know the material to perform poorly.

The issue is detecting cheating. It’s very easy for teachers to administer said worst alternative. An untimed power test, on the other hand, is extremely labor-intensive to produce/mark. Also, cheating is detected by comparing answers between students. This adds another level of complexity compared to multiple choice or the simpler short-answer questions that are delivered during a timed exam.

ChatGPT introduces a layer when it comes to detecting cheating that is currently looking like it’s going to hurt students. On its current track, it’s going to make untimed power tests much harder to produce and administer. They’re already so difficult to create that most professors just opt for the simpler timed exam.

In an entry-level research-oriented graduate class, the point is to learn the foundational material so that you can progress to more abstract levels. ChatGPT is making it much harder to assess these classes. As far as testing whether someone can solve a more technically-oriented problem that would be seen in industry, I’m with your interpretation.
No offense to the reply, but “need a therapist” is a very American response and a bit of a cop out.

OP, I’ve seen many people turn around after aged 40, including a friend who got married for the first time at aged 58. She’s energetic and attractive and incidentally also turned her life around after 40.

My two pennies would suggest you throw the past expectations out the window, determine where your passions lie, and set short-term intentions / goals. I might also suggest looking to groups where people are successful but take approaches outside the norm. My friend for example is a successful physician and involved in a Yoga community that is global and inexpensive and where he can meet others of like kind. Build community for yourself.
Where Was SEC on Sam Bankman-Fried?
Apple Music is a service that you can use within iTunes & Music app (on iOS and macOS)
> Wait until FTC find about Diablo Immortal.

While I'm sure it's been discussed to death already, if anyone isn't familiar with the predatory design of Diablo Immortal I'd recommend this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o17lBUZgjTs
They don’t change your files.

iTunes / Apple Music match your with their catalog and basically flip a flag that says this song is in your library. If a song is in your library you can download the file on other devices, same as if you purchased the song from them.

If I download the song from iTunes via Match it’s a DRM-ed version because they don’t upload files that match the music catalog so there’s no original to download.
what is wrong/what can go wrong with hooking up SQS to Lambda? (real question, not trolling)
This is known as Ionosperic Skywave Propogation Phenomenon. I managed a small class C “day-timer” AM station in the early 90s and we had to reduce power based on a very specific schedule of dates and times. For example, start the day at 6:00 AM at low power (50 watts) and increase to full power (1000 watts) at 6:15 AM. This was to “protect” the class A station which had the rights to broadcast in our area at night. I believe the class A was KGO in San Francisco. My station was 810 KKGD in western Colorado (no idea if it is still broadcasting).
Agreed, and I'm concerned that this journalistic malpractice will devalue legitimate breakthroughs.
I would seriously consider looking into psychedelics as an accompaniment to therapy or other help. They helped me immensely in getting out of a rut (rut is the best analogy as your brain tends to follow the path of least resistance, even if it's detrimental to you. Psychedelics release your brain into a host of new directions and allow it to create new connections and paths)

Clinical studies have found that it is one of the most effective cure for a host of mental health issues.

Some references:
- https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220606-psilocybin-how-p...
Couple things:

You have a bad attitude, you get what you accept, you’ve already defeated yourself without even trying.

If you like the US pack your shit and book a flight. Today. Your flight is something to look forward to and a deadline for taking care of what you need to do to achieve what you want.

Action is going to help you more than talking about your problems, stop talking, start fixing.
There are many other articles about this, but this one is pretty decent.
https://www.salon.com/2011/02/08/lind_reaganism_carter/

If you'd like a proper history of neoliberalism, check out the book "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16284953-never-let-a-ser...).
The article seems to say that aging is actually slowed in space (abstract: "...These results suggest that aging in C. elegans is slowed through neuronal and endocrine response to space environmental cues.")
I found this interesting comment about the author of this piece:

> For some context, Elizabeth Weiss was locked out of research materials from her own place of employment because she was a racist and unprofessional, so much so that her department literally held a panel called “What to Do When One of Your Tenured Professors is a Racist”. She’s been called out for being unprofessional by multiple anthropological organizations and a number of other experts in her field.

> You can take the redneck out of Arkansas….

I then found this article while doing a super quick Google on this claim: https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/01/professor-who-drew-ir...

I also found this, which might be the origin of her being labelled as racist: https://www.cal-catholic.com/san-jose-state-accuses-elizabet...

Specifically:

"On December 18, 2020, San Jose State University Associate Anthropology Professor A.J. Faas sent an email to his department promoting a new website that encouraged scholars to cite the work of black academics in their research.

Called CiteBlackAuthors.com, it was started in the wake of the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd at the hands of police.

“Help us spread the word and the WORK of Black, academic professionals,” Faas wrote.

But one member of the department, Professor Elizabeth Weiss, offered a contrary viewpoint.

“Although the intent of Cite Black Authors may be well-meaning,” Weiss, who is tenured, wrote back to her colleagues, “as a scholar in search of objective knowledge, I encourage researchers to look for the best source material and realize that an author’s ethnicity, race, or color of their skin has no actual bearing on the validity of their contribution.”

Months later, Weiss’ department chair, Roberto Gonzalez, would publicly criticize her, saying she responded to the Cite Black Authors email in an “extremely insensitive way."

I don't know who to believe.

On one hand, I can understand someone being pissed about going to talks that don't live up to their headlines or speakers inserting their political views into ill-fitting places.

On the other hand, the author seems to have said some possibly well meaning, but understandably very insensitive things, that makes her look more culturally-insensitive.

Regardless, I found this to be a good read as someone who knows nothing about anthropology.
There’s lots of good comments about mental health support, agree with those recommendations. But, I just want to mention, how very beneficial a program of physical exercise is for a man in their 40s. I’m 47, my experience is, I had let myself grow old prematurely due to lack of physical activity, from focusing on sitting at the computer a decade. My home life with my partner was awful, I had grown fat and lost my vigor, I was on the cusp of losing my partner and watching my family break apart. That would have definitely negatively impacted my business too. So, this year I started going to the gym, lost 30lbs, grew some muscle mass, changed myself physically which changed my mentality and now ultimately, I’ve pulled off a complete 180 in my life this year. I will also encourage you to have your testosterone levels checked and if they are at the lower end of the reference range, consider starting a TRT program. TRT + exercise for a man in their 40s is probably the closest thing that exists to a real fountain of youth.
Managed to lift myself out of a suicidal hole that started when I was around 7-8. It started with quitting smoking and picking up exercise, which did seem to make a lot of the underlying substrate of hopelessness recede. Then came the pandemic, which allowed me to step back from human interaction and day to day noise enough to realize how much calmer my life could be. I picked up mountain biking which reconnected with my inner child to just go out and discover stuff, plus spending a significant amount of time in nature.

This finally culminated in finding the autistic community on twitter, which put my entire life on its head, and finally shed a very different light on the difficulties I face, and where the constant suicidal thoughts were coming from. I know approach a lot of things through the lens of disability. There are a lot of things I just can't power through and learn and work on, and instead of trying even harder, approaching them by finding accomodations. This is an ongoing process, but it changed my life from never ending gloom to being very content. I have a lot of lucky circumstances that made this relatively smooth for me, and I have no idea if this is even true for me, but exercise and structuring my day felt like the catalyst, which set a healthy foundation for productive and positive introspection.

Getting ADHD meds was a significant part of me keeping this approach up in a professional and relationship setting.
Rice tends to accumulate arsenic, and together with the already lax standards for arsenic in potable water in the US, that fact should cause some concern.

Just because Prop 65 is overdone it doesn't follow that food standards are pointless.
That all depends on the timescale you are looking at. And there are plenty of companies that are taken off the stock exchange again at some point ('going private').
'April' is an APL embedded into Common Lisp
Tom Scott: I was wrong (and so was everyone) [video]
I don't recall an obvious way for ordinary users in the original Mac days to dither images. But it was difficult/impossible for ordinary users to capture an image back then, anyway. The ThunderScan is the first consumer device I remember for real-world image input.

On the other hand, the Apple II came with a demo disk that had half a dozen or so scanned images and they had that dithered look. So there were at least experimental scanners in existence circa 1981, when we bought our Apple II.
Ray Kroc founded McDonald at 52. Not great achievements before that. When I'm in your mood I try to relax, more outdoor and social activities.
I’m not entirely sure what point you’re making. Is leatcode not akin to cheating in this context? If doing it pushes you to the top, how would this sort out correctly?
Why do American users keep repeating this rubbish? Have you all read the same book / blockpost making this ridiculous claim?
This is why for anonymity you want to use a commercial VPN provider rather than a self-hosted-VPN-on-VPS solution. In the former, you connect to a pool of servers that shares IP addresses with thousands of users, but in the latter you connect to a single server that's only associated with you.
> No offense to the reply, but “need a therapist” is a very American response and a bit of a cop out.

Why?

I'd change it to "need a psychiatrist".
I'd be 100% in favor of automatic software updates if there were some guarantee that it was just used for security fixes and nothing else. But if you leave it up to the software vendor to decide what gets automatically pushed, you inevitably backslide back to where we are today where everything gets jammed down the user's throat.
Understand that the interviewers are there to have a conversation. If you're always ending up with antagonistic interviewers, I would say you've been really unlucky.

Like you, I do my best too when the interviewer is friendly, or wants to help. Most interviewers go through some sort of training too make them better at this. They're there to help you, if you get stuck just think out aloud. If you're uncomfortable with that, then practice. I don't agree with throwing hard problems at interviewees, but understanding how they work with others to write up a solution is what companies are generally looking for since for the most part you will be working on teams.

One suggestion is that the next job you have, actively participate in the interview process, understand how the hiring panel works, what they're looking for and what they aren't, etc. This helped me understand and optimize for the behaviors that these places are looking for.
You're welcome! Enjoy the software, if you have questions or find issues let me know.
The disturbing part is in the FBI/Twitter (gov't/corp.) collaboration to suppress a story in the media. Not sure what the crime is, because this is a new area. But it should be deeply disturbing in terms of credibility for the media.

Skip ahead to 10: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/16048772355799121...
Maybe getting social experiences from places other than fortnite is a good thing?
I recently started using plexamp and it’s been fantastic. I only use Music.app on my machine to rip CDs to a directory on my NAS that plexamp is serving.
Fraud is already criminal.
That take assigns a lot of imaginative intent to a biomechanical process.
I think the comparison to a calculator isn't fair because a calculator serves a very discrete purpose. Your brain can compartmentalize a calculators function.

I have been using ChatGPT to code & write copy for a week and its abilities are so broad that my brain couldn't really slot it into a specific area. The result is my brain started reaching towards it every time it felt strained. I had a similar thing happen when I was googling a lot of info for work and then found myself considering searching for things like "when is my dads birthday?". My mind couldn't slot its function into a specific area like it can with a calculator.
Really frustrating that this wasn’t discovered prior to the election.

But without a better source of revenue for local news, I’m sure lots of things like this go uncovered in a timely fashion.
Oh well, accepting who you are helps end a lot of internal struggles which leaves you with a bit of leftover bandwidth to improve ones life and enjoy small bits of it. What is wrong with that? If one goes to therapy with the expectation of becoming a complete different person they’d be sorely dissapointed.

Therapy can solve other issues too but one should first accept who they are
Much of the "stealing" arguably isn't. Just to pick a notable example, the Rosetta Stone was given to the British by the Egyptian government.
There does seem to be some medical evidence given, but you really have to work to find it. And yes, the acronyms are cringe.

I have a friend who just had knee replacement. She said the pain was excruciating, and that the best advice was ice in the first few days (she said two days), followed by heat after that. Since she's the type of person who would have access to the best medical advice, I tend to believe it.

As for claims that "the body is always right" : look up "auto-immune disease."
Wouldn't be surprising. Up to two normal passport books, an additional passport card, and a special issuance one (diplomatic, military). Can't use the special ones for personal travel so you'd need both forms.
I assume you mean compared to birds? Ferns, wasps and slugs don’t like ocean voyages much, either. Coconuts are adapted to them (and yet the Polynesians had to bring them along to many places they now exist).
Are any of these still needed, though? I kinda assumed they would be like Duff's Device and be a nifty historical relic, but firmly in the "Let the compiler do this for you" category in modern C.
In the US the democrats are not center-right relative to the US population.
Not related to the story but one of my fondest childhood memories was one stormy night listening to AM radio and hearing the crackle of thunder on the audio (and seeing the lightning at the same time), then switching to FM and noticing I couldn’t hear it anymore. I was so intrigued then as to why FM was unaffected.
> At their scale it's much.

At their scale it is replaceable: They earn money to do their duties, if they cost a bit more they bill the customers a bit more so they get it back.

The time of my life is NOT replaceable. I do not get it back EVER.

And they very likely don't give a damn about their customers, it doesn't matter to them if some cronjob delivers PDFs or another cronjob prints letters - at the end of the day they just want to go home.

I do CARE about living, it gravely matters to me how much of my life I have available for myself.

> tons of paper and gas that's totally wasted.

It's not wasted: It fulfilled it's purpose of delivering information to me in a convenient fashion.

And once I'm done with it, it goes into the paper bin and gets recycled.

> I don't know which country you're from, but all my bank statements, utility invoice etc go to my email, so there is no need to log anywhere. I'm not sure about others right now, but utilities are definitely signed.

Every company here has a different method. Websites, emails which link to websites, emails which are the invoice, emails which have an attachement that is the invoice.

It is impossible to cleanly integrate this into one workflow.

A plain old regular paper mailbox however already is a clean, integrated workflow which ships unified pieces of paper which all have the same size and are able to be put into the same kind of folders thus.

Hence optimizing this to be more convenient for companies means taking away individual lifetime which matters to individuals for the sake of enriching entities which do not care about the money they saved, it's just a number in some database for them.

> Maybe you could talk to your bank/... about it.

Do you seriously believe they will do anything?

Whenever I interact with those kind of people, I rarely get an answer ever, and that's about things which are part of their daily duties.

If you go to them expecting them to actually do something out of their ordinary - good luck. It will get ignored with a 99% probability.

And even if one of them does something: Then the other dozen companies I have to deal with will not do anything.

So paper has to stay anyway. I'm happy with it. It's convenient, it's super standardized, and it just works.
Loudspeakers for DJI drones in case anyone else is wondering if this is already a solved problem:

Mavic 2 US$99 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1443226-REG/dji_cp_en...

> The 10W speaker is capable of playing sound at up to 100 dB. The 100 dB audio intensity has a range of 3.3'. General communication can vary from 66' to 131', but specific distances will vary based on ambient noise.

Mavic 3 US$159 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1730102-REG/dji_cp_en...

> The loudspeaker weighs only 3 oz yet is capable of a broadcast distance of up to 328.1' at 70 dB and a maximum volume of 110 dB up to 3.3' away. You can transmit audio in real time from your compatible controller, such as the RC Pro Enterprise (not included), or you can save and playback several audio recordings. You can play your clip once or have it automatically loop.
I guess I have a fairly cynical take on this. I think this just exposes that AI is fundamentally going to undermine the value of education in certain fields. The fact some tests can be "cheated" by AI really just suggests that some skills have little to no value in our future AI-prevalent world. Stopping people cheating is going to change that.

In the same way that in the past being able to do fast, accurate calculations in your head or on paper might have landed you job as a "computer", today technology makes the idea of hiring someone to be a computer absurd. And therefore any tests that test someone's ability to multiply and divide large numbers is basically a worthless test in today's world.

Fields where there's value humans can add won't be cheatable by AI (at least today's generations). Tests in these fields will hold value. In some cases it will mean the education and tests will evolve to educate and test areas where humans can still add value - arguably this has already happened in maths. But many fields could be replaced entirely.

I don't mean to sound unsympathetic to those who's jobs and professions will replaced by AI in the coming years and decades. It makes me sad that someone could spend years obtaining and perfecting skills which might soon become redundant, but for better or worse AI systems like ChatGPT will fundamentally change the value of some skills and educational fields. The sooner we accept this the better we can adapt society for it.