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He has charges against him for trying to find oxygen for his sick grandfather. What part of that does not involve the guy getting screwed?

Also, instead of criticizing the source, criticize the content.

From the HN Guidelines

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

This type of tone only reduces the quality of HN. :(

The solution is to read more curated better quality stuff.

There are more quality books written in the last 100 years than you'll ever finish. There are high quality magazines like Lapham's Quarterly. Even weekly magazines like The Economist have a marked increase in quality compared to daily news or social media.

My point here is, do you really need to know what big thing happened every single hour? If it's so important, you'll come to know of it anyways. It's okay to let time filter out the low quality stuff and then consume the high quality stuff instead.

Nice work, really interesting blog post!

On a sidenote, git itself can also get painfully slow with large monorepos. Hope GitHub can push some changes there as well.

I know FB moved off git to mercurial because of performance issues.

>If people are available for mentoring please let me know. I would be really grateful to learn from you guys.

I work on listenbrainz.org [0] by the MetaBrainz Foundation [1]. We use Python, React, Spark and a bunch of other stuff. I'm happy to help you get started with one of MetaBrainz's projects if you want. My email is in my profile.

[0]: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server

[1]: https://metabrainz.org

Google Summer of Code literally changed my life.

It was my first foray into actual work on large code bases, at a point of time when no company was ready to hire me.

I can imagine a world without Google Summer of Code and it's not one I'd like living in. Thanks, gsoc team!

>After the acquisition, we have an extremely long project that consumed many of our best engineers to align our data retention policies and tools to Google. I am not saying this is not important BUT this had zero value to our users.

If it prevented a data leak or a security incident, I'd argue that it did actually provide value to your users.

At some point, you have to do the non-trendy infrastructure work, skyscrapers aren't built with bricks.

Glad that you like it! I'm part of the (small) team working on ListenBrainz. If you have any feedback or feature requests, I'd be happy to hear it.

My email is me [at] param.codes.

My project is funnel: https://funnel.fyi

I'm trying to build something that helps people organise their job search better with better stats and insights. Right now, we have a kanban board for all your job applications and a sankey diagram for state changes.

I understand and accept the comment. What I was trying to point out, and maybe didn't point out well enough, was that China and India have different systems, values and expectations, meaning that businesses expecting a like for like replacement will eventually end up being disappointed.

Doing business in a federal democracy comprised of diverse states and population like India and a top down controlled economy like China has different implications, no matter what. There is a very valid case for India improving conditions for people to do business there, but even if those things happen, the value proposition will still be different when compared to China and in the end, at some point, a compromise to profits will have to be made in favour of values.

I was not virtue signaling, what I meant to say was that both countries have completely different philosophies and values, which will lead to different costs for businesses.

Yes, that is what a democratic country is supposed to be like. Workers have the right to protest.

China's policies of suppression won't work in any place where people have more freedom. In the end, companies will need to eat the increased costs of working in an environment where people can protest mistreatment and wage slavery. The alternative is bowing to China and letting human rights violations slide for the increase in profits.

Do people take stuff out of their perf reviews and put them into the resume sometimes? I imagine most perf reviews are fairly focused on numbers as well, curious if there's an overlap of content that could go on a resume as well, my intuition says most probably there is.

That makes sense!

So it becomes an interview of diplomacy essentially. Not really sure if that's ideal. I could see many false negatives of people who are technically strong, uncomfortable with their employer's ethics but still avoiding the topic so as not to say too much by mistake.

Not sure if it's reasonable to expect people to badmouth their current employer in an interview, especially when you don't know the result of the interview.

This guy is a billionaire, I'm spending my time on the wrong things it seems

Turns out trying to pay people 1-2 usd per hour for creative work leads to said people not caring about the quality of the work.

The government is a huge organization capable of prioritizing multiple workstreams.

I would have expected them to postpone for sure, given COVID. Does anyone have any ideas on why they didn't postpone? Could it just be them expecting that it'll get much worse?

It's definitely not news media. I don't think it exists. :)

In my experience, no subreddit on reddit is (or can remain) an unbiased neutral source of information about politics.

Either subscribe to a bunch of them, one for each world view, or just classify reddit as a flawed news source and move on to something better.

For all the shit that the desktop web experience gets, the mobile web experience on reddit is a 1000 times worse. It sometimes blocks you from viewing certain (cough NSFW cough) subreddits unless you use the app, umm what??

Yeah, we need to fix that landing page. It's basically an open repository of your music listening history.

Yep, we do support bulk import of last.fm data [0].

We also have a Spotify importer that automatically imports stuff from Spotify, if you use Spotify, I would definitely recommend setting that up.

We're a really small team (all volunteers), so we don't move with as much urgency as I'd like to, but we've been making slow but steady progress over the years.

If you find any rough edges, or have any feedback, I'd be happy to hear, my email is in the HN profile. :)

[0]: https://listenbrainz.org/profile/import

Hey! I've been working on ListenBrainz [0] for the past 3-ish years. Happy to answer questions if anyone has any.

[0]: https://listenbrainz.org

I wrote that comment 3 years ago! It definitely took me a week or two worth of work to figure out what was happening there. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that the influx cli client then had different behaviour compared to the python client. Not sure if that has been fixed, but this isn't code that I'm really proud of. :D

ListenBrainz dev here. We wanted stuff like the ability to do stuff like "DELETE FROM measurement where field = blah" and that support didn't exist last time we looked. [0]

Another thing that's not mentioned in the post but was a pain point for us was that it's not easy to query for fields with "null" values [1].

I figure a lot of our pain might be because we're not as good at Influx as we are at PostgreSQL. We've been running MusicBrainz[2] for ~18 years on PostgreSQL, that knowledge will hopefully transfer over a little with Timescale.

[0]: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/3210

[1]: https://github.com/influxdata/docs.influxdata.com/issues/717

[2]: https://musicbrainz.org

>Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do.

I'm not agreeing with the grandfather comment, but there are "post-meritocracy" movements[0] in the world that fall more in line with the opinion that meritocracy as a concept is flawed.

[0]: https://postmeritocracy.org/ (sidenote: I agree with a lot of things in this link)

When people talk about privilege, this is what they're talking about. A white person would probably just not be in this situation enough for the need to comply.

I remember the first time I was flying to the US, I was adviced by multiple people in the days leading up to the flight, to get rid of my beard, because it made me look Muslim. From all the stories, it's probably a good precaution to take. Stuff like this and complying to authority in a polite way even though all human instinct tells you to be pissed is normal.