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If you want to see how complex and yet beautiful this game can get, checkout Nilaus’ Factorio Master Class on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV3rF--heRVu2xlDGZiRb...

He also made those designs with community participation on his Twitch stream if you’re into watching old streams. I believe he is one of the best Factorio content creator.

I also want to mention about how Factorio developers have been continuously blogging their weekly updates, FFF - Friday Factorio Facts throughout the development. They’re really interesting and show how the game evolved and it’s history.

Thank you for mentioning Zenodo. I really liked how EU funding agencies push for reproducibility/citability of data and code when you submit proposals to them.

I haven’t filed any NSF stuff (yet) but didn’t come across any such hard requirements where you had to commit to something like zenodo or else to archive the result of your research work for archiving/citations purposes.

Can you please tell us how is it obvious? I am interested in the network in network part

I’m not sure if it’s true anymore. I experienced good performance when they switched to using xhyve/bhyve (basically use docker for mac). Can you shade more light on your experience? When was this? What circumstances? Which kind of apps?

That sounds great! Can you please share some good models/links for the usb switcher thingy?

(I had no idea such a thing existed in the first place!)

Well, after spending so much time watching kilometers of rolling text on my screen while `emerge -uavDN @world` compiles everything, I agree I don’t need reproducible builds

This sounds very similar to Safari blocking/deleting cookies?

Wait, does that mean GPU support includes NVIDIA only or will it also include (hopefully in future) ATI as well?

It would be great if you can share source/links to these claims you’re making.

> If you are so inclined, you can actually visit Xinjiang yourself and ask Uighurs there about the situation. China has been actively been encouraging foreign inspectors to visit Xinjiang to see the situation.

Oh that sounds news to me. I was under the impression that no foreign media was allowed to freely roam and report in Xinjiang.

Can you please share your sources and any instances of foreign to China (and perhaps non US like say EU/India/Australia/Arabic etc.) media coverage in Xinjiang?

> The ban is unambiguously due to strategic concerns over a foreign company having access to user data

So Europe/India/everyone else should ban US apps? It becomes a slippery slope.

> the US coming to the same conclusion as China that letting rivals foreign powers control media companies is unwise.

If you’re worried about a foreign company manipulating media then put in laws and regulations. That way American companies can be hold accountable to the same standards by other countries as non-American companies and creating a level playing field.

Wouldn’t this severely hamper the use of shared single mega repo at Google and also very easy and effective sharing of all kinds of data across products and services?

I couldn’t understand the anecdote. What did hilbert think of the space? The author doesn’t say anything!

Whoever is paying the most, probably?

> I have heard it’s not.

Really? I was under the impression that the Hyderabad/Banglore office is old enough that they must’ve figured out their hiring process by now. You would expect at least great Infra/SRE support teams for Google Pay - as it’s an India centric product.

As for Amazon - yeah, read those stories here on HN but not sure what to make of it. They must be having huge churn in that case.

Ah now it makes sense why there are so many Amazon recruiters pinging and connecting on LinkedIn :-)

Thanks, I am happy to know Google Pay is run from India. Hope things change for the better for Google SWE/SREs in India - I am sure they're at par if not better than their Googleplex counterparts.

I would wait until they get field trials and do a launch in India (which is what Jio plans anyways). I think if they can do it at India scale and complexity - they can pretty much do it anywhere in the world. India scale is obvious - large geography and relatively dense population. Complexity because of unreliability of basic infrastructure (like guaranteed power supply, people digging over your network pipeline etc.)

I am usually a skeptic when it comes to claims made by companies in the Indian context, for example, my Jio connection is spotty at best in tier 2 city and very much a PITA if I go in the rural areas where the state owned BSNL is still the winner.

TFA proposes that Jio/India will be the fourth one - or at least that's what I understood from the post.

I found the analysis on winners and losers for the Indian model to be lacking in depth. Specifically, if the Jio Platform truly intends to be a platform (as described by the Bill Gates line[1]) then it's a huge win for Indian companies and startup ecosystem.

I wonder if FANGs will dramatically change their Indian operations and make their Indian subsidiaries the primary revenue engines with India first products and services.

On a tangential note, what do these FANG subsidiaries in India primarily focus on? Is it more sales and business operations? Or do they also do "real software engineering" as well? Asking for a friend :)

Serious question: what does (will?) GPT-3 (or GPT-2/BERT) produce if provided with the STOP token (end of sentence/period).

I want to know if there is any interesting investigation happening on the creativity by these models in a sort of “tabula rasa” spirit (if it makes sense)

Shhh, he cannot reveal that he’s reviewer #2!

By the way they discuss the implementation. First level is ensuring that base cases are covered (i.e. correct implementation of recursion)

Second level is how they explain the simple recursion that’ll hit stack limits (i.e. without tail recursion)

Third level is using accumulator/tail recursion.

See how they can express these ideas and are they able to effectively communicate their intentions.

How’s this different from shodan?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website)

Ugh, this brings back terrible memories from grad school. It was horrible as a student, horrendous as a TA, and that one time I filled in for my advisor, it was a nightmare!

I thought those were (partially?) addressed (or still ongoing?) with the use of bhyve/xhvye?

This is the first time in my hn lurking moment that I felt a desire to downvote something. And I don’t even have enough karma for that. So let me be unequivocal when I say this: you are being naive, and downright insensitive to the case in point. I am truly saddened by reading your comment.

I wish there was a video tutorial of sorts to explain how git blame works.

I have used it, but it never “clicked” me. I am always uncertain about what to do next as I browse git blame on GitHub

This whole thread so full of nice tips and hidden gems!!

Thanks everyone :-)

And magit for the emacs folks.

They provide a conceptual framework for developer to orient and frame their actions with (sort of) right information density in the “native” $EDITOR environment.

I think VSCode has that git plugin which is very popular but I can’t remember the name - gives great git log/blame interface.

I saw the video and later in the video he does say that he writes code inside his mail editor (pseudocode, or directly editing patches).

So I don't think he said anything of the sorts that he is not having fun programming. And in fact when the interviewer asks a question in the similar vein, Linus is quick to point out that he would be really bored if he wasn't the maintainer.

Edit: All I am trying to say is I wouldn't speculate on what Linus feels and doesn't feel when he can speak for himself (and which he does in the video). At the same time the general discussion in this subthread is very interesting.