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In China, Huawei is known for offering competitive salaries but also demands a lot from its employees. Many people tolerate the toxic work environment in exchange for financial benefits, particularly as they gradually improve their family's lifestyle with their rising income.

As a successful company, Huawei has also popularized the so-called "Wolf-like Spirit" among other Chinese firms.

The "Wolf-like Spirit" implies an expectation to work extremely hard and do whatever is necessary to achieve the company's goals.

One anecdote involves some Japanese customers who visited ZTE, a competitor of Huawei. To break the deals, Huawei allegedly sent individuals who pretended to be ZTE employees and entertained the customers with drinking and whoring for a week.

No one should trust a company like Huawei. Or any companies with deep CCP connection from China.

Good point. Besides, there is no detailed guidebook on censorship in China. Every organization (media, social media) has to guess what the gov wants to censor. As a result, every organization tends to overdo it. Because 1). you never know if you miss one target that should be censored and 2). What is OK today might not be OK tomorrow. Censorship in China is an art (or joke).

Thank you HN.

When I don't want to work or code, HN can always motivate me to do more.

Chinese IP are not allowed to use ChatGPT. Chinese credit card is not allowed for OpenAI API.

Source: my own experience.

What puzzles me most is the second restriction. My credit card is accepted by AWS, Google, and many other services. It is also accepted by many services which use Stripe to process payments.

But OpenAI refuses to take my money.

This is more interesting than the HBO Silicon Valley show.

context: at Ti8's final, Team LGD played against Team OG. During the draft phase, OG players had some paper, which were statistics of LGD (I guess). Somnus the player said: Ceb is holding a bunch of paper. https://youtu.be/abEDXaPyIOE?t=15. In that final, LGD almost won but they lost at the end. That final is arguably the best final in Dota2 history. The moment when Somuns taunted OG was captured by True Sight, which is a documentary for every TI final. LGD players surely watched the documentary or at least the clip many times.

The first clip you questioned about is from Ti9, a year after Ti8, where OG and LGD played again. Notail the player took a bunch of paper (way too many for drafting analysis purpose) to remind LGD their tragic loss last year. Hence the mind game. Btw, LGD lost again.

Cool product!

Can you have special section for audio contents which have transcriptions? That would be very good feature to pay, at least for me.

I pay $15 to $20 per session (around 45 ~ 60 mins), depending on teachers.

The problem with matching with someone already online is that it might not be the right person. There are tutors that are very good, helpful and inspiring. I don't think I want to talk to random person online. A long term relationship with several tutors are helpful because we know each other better and I'm more comfortable speaking in front of them.

So I would prefer AI > random someone

I use iTalki to find native speaker to practice with.

I say such app exists because I just read about Speak: https://www.speak.com/blog/speak-announces-27m-series-b-led-...

It's for studying English.

What I don't like about a real tutor is because it's expensive and I have to book in advance. ChaptGPT is free and I can practice with it whenever I want. Besides, ChaptGPT is not a real human so I don't feel embaraced when I made stupid mistake.

Before ChatGPT I spent around 200 usd per month to practice German with German native speakers for 2 months.

Then I use ChatGPT to practice German and I am very happy about the experience. AI can't replace real human yet. But I'm already willing to practice with ChatGPT given my current use case and my budget. It's not 10x better, but 20x cheaper. From my experience, AI is not hype.

Imagine integrating a more fine tuned AI and text-to-speech feature to make a better AI teacher. Such an app already exists, I believe. I'm waiting for a German and Japanese one.

I want to solve the problem that it's difficult for people to predict the future with skin in the game.

My idea is to create a prediction market where people bet on REAL world events under REAL name with FAKE money. All predictions are public and we can rank every user's prediction ability in each category by his ROI.

I have created a MVP where people bet on cryptos: https://rankvestor.com/. I wanted to start with finantial market.

Now I have to stop this project because I am moving my family to Japan because I don't believe in the future of China. I have to work for a Japan company to keep my visa. In my spare time, I work on a Japanese study app that gives me some money every month.

BTW, if anyone likes this idea, feel free to take it and implement it :)

Can relate to this.

I have a child and is going to have another one this year. I have this crazy idea that is big if true but 99.9% it would fail. I would totally do it if I was without a family. This idea is VC type idea.

Now I am working on some idea that is 99% going to feed my family but it is boring as hell and no VC would look at it.

I will accept the job. React and Vue are not that different.

no one will be going out of business just because their frontend isn't React

Yes.

But one is more likely to go out of business if their frontend is still using JQuery. It's harder to maintain and iterate, harder to recruite good engineers.

I would ask for more money if the company hiring me uses JQuery and doesn't use TypeScript/React. And if the company somehow hires me, I would be less productive because I can't use TypeScript and a modern framework.

Special thanks, you make a great point!

I will pick one interesting open source project and start contributing.

Thanks for the list.

I've decided to dive deep into cal.com. Its tech stacks are exactly same as mine.

And thank everyone giving advice!

My story: making real world working products to train and show your skill.

I learn program to make my own products. I made several working products but they didn't work as a business. I need a job to survive.

I tried to use Upwork to get a gig. There was a team hiring enginners. I showed the tech lead my repo and my working web apps. He is impressive. I get hired.

There are some luck involved. It turns out that my tech lead is not a good programmer. Maybe his lack of experitise is why he hired me. I don't know. But it helps to have working product and public codebase to show.

Wish you good luck!

If I use a VPN like v2ray and write some crazy shit about Dictator Xi, is your system able to know what I write and who I am?

I'm very curious because many Chinese people including me are doing that daily.

Thanks. I've spent a few minutes on them while I did my research.

I got the impression that I need to install some software or integrate them into my backend. They are more like system monitor. Maybe I was wrong. That's not how I wanted do it.

I hope to upload my nginx logs and get the results immediately.

I have some Nginx access logs. Not many logs. I need to parse those logs and analyse them.

Some questions I want to answer from my logs:

1. Which API is slow

2. Which API is broken, ie. returning 4xx or 5xx

3. Which API is called most often

I don't want to integrate some backend software into my code. At least not at this stage.

Hopefully there can be a website for me to upload my logs. After uploading, it would parse my logs and show me some plots. Google doesn't introduce me to such services. Maybe there are some.

At the end, I spent 2 hours parsing the data with Python and analizing them with R. To save myself 2 hours' life, I would pay for such a service.

I thought of making such a product myself. But I want to implement some other idea first.

If you know such kind of service, please let me know :)

FTX's failure is hardly Crypto's failure. FTX is a centralized exchange. Crypto, at least when it was created, is/was against centralization.

But yes, cryto industry is much more centralized than before. Centralization without regulation is the root of all evils.

We don't need deep tech understanding of Cryto to know that centralization without regulation is problematic. History of finance has proven it again and again and again.

Those who trusted FTX are either dumb or greedy. Perhaps both.

As a crypto adopter, the best we can do is:

1. Stay away from unregulated centralized company like FTX, Binance, Tether, etc. 2. Stay dicentralized.

Thanks for sharing Akita. It looks promising. It seems to be an early stage product. I would keep an eye on it.

Like you said, there should be something like a mixpanel for API usage. Now when I think of it, it is not as an urgent problem as user data analysis. I need to collect user data after I have qualitatively validate my product and started doing marketing campaign. But I would not need to analyse my api usage after I hit a certain level of usage.

API monitor seems to be a less urgent and easier task with less market size.

I want to pay for it, if there is any simple service that I can integrate in 2 hours out there.

Speaking of a full investment (Data warehouse + datadog and alerting framework), I actually don't know what it is, lol. I'm an dumb developer, I just want to pay, read docs, write some integration code in 2 hours, test and then use the service. I have visited datadogs webiste before I post. The amount of info there is beyond my comprehension (or beyond the attention budget that I am willing to spend).

Anyway, thanks for you info :)

China is doing well and the rest of the world is considering limitations on crypto as well.

Well, it depends on how you view the condition. I believe that a citizen should be able to change any local curreny to foreign currency. If citizens are not allowed to do that, they are exploited by the governemnt, who can simple print money to finance its corrupted operation. And that's what happen in china.

I don't care about the price of bitcoin. I care about the ability of moving my money wherever I want.

I would argue that crytpo is not pure lottery. It's a risky investment. As every assets, crypto can be over-valued or under-valued.

As someone from China, where central government limit foregin currency exchange, Bitcoin is a god-given tech. I'm not arguing for its value and i don't mean to persuade anyone. This is my opinion. I believe in its value. And guess what? I miss the crypto train too. And I have zero crypto investments. Because I don't want to take unncessary finantial risk when I cannot. I didn't borrow to bet on Bitcoin. In fact, I didn't bet at all. I didn't envy those who bet and win. Because there 100 losers for each winner.

Hard working provides higher expected return than betting.

Wise investmens and hard working provide higher expected return than hard-working alone.

Just my personal thoughts.

Many mobile games made by Chinese, especially Net Ease, who also makes Diablo Immortal. Net Ease is notoriously good at sucking money from whales.

Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate addiction and fun.

I am addicted to Dota2. Good game. I spent little money on it. I play for more than 3000 hours. I wish I didn't.

Not to defend lootbox game. But some positive thing: it makes some people's life less boring. Lootbox doesn't make games interesting. But lootbox generates money to hire good designer, programmer to create interesting games, at least for some players.

As someone used to work for Chinese mobile game companies. $110k sounds average for a pay-to-win game. But the game is new. Designers would create other slots to make money.

Most crypto projects are craps.

But as someone living in China, where there is strict foreign currency regulattion, I have say crypto currency is one of the best investions in the last 15 years.

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