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Ask HN: How valuable is work experience in China?
Hi HN,

I'm currently considering whether or not to accept a job opportunity in Beijing, China. I was reached out on LinkedIn for this role, and I do have the direct functional experience as well as the Chinese language skills they're looking for. Think it could be an incredible experience as I've spent a summer studying in Beijing, and quite enjoyed my experiences there as a tourist. The role is at a level higher than what I would otherwise would likely be able to land at a company in the U.S. or elsewhere.

My main concern is the current political climate, and the optics of me taking on a position at a Chinese company given the current state of U.S.-China relations. However, the product line I would be working on is a highly popular app used in the United States, so it's completely feasible that I would be able to spin my work experience in a positive light in terms of understanding the motivations and behaviors of U.S. consumers.

Another route I could go down is continue to work for companies based in China, but with highly international audiences. Ideally, I would be able to take this work experience and leverage it for an opportunity at a U.S. company in the future, but I'm concerned at the pushback that employers might have at work experience from a Chinese company (given the current state of media coverage painting Chinese companies as complicit in trade theft and copying of Western companies).

Any thoughts/experiences people could share?
Because many people have incredibly strong oppinions that are nothing but often repeated FUD and anybody that has informed himself gets pissed off.
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I doubt it. I nod off in meetings all the time. It's that 10 o clock marker after I've had some carbs at ~9am. I want to snooze then naturally.
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I feel like Apple has a huge hole in the market here by not having beefier Mac Minis available with matching-form-factor Thunderbolt enclosures (hard drives, eGPU, etc) that are easily stackable. That could get most of the way to a traditional high-end desktop system but with each part of it purchasable separately over time.
But even in the event the government demonstrates probable cause the constitution doesn’t require us to make it as easy as possible for the government to search our homes, papers, and effects. If the police suspect you of murder and get a warrant to dig up your basement you aren’t the one who’s then required to dig.

Now imagine the government said no one should be allowed to pour cement in their basement because it makes it difficult to investigate suspected murderers. That’s what Barr is advocating.
> The chilling effect is essentially invisible until we can see a better way. Eg uber vs taxis

I don't think it's clear that Uber is a better way than taxis. Cheaper for an individual ride? Yes. Better for the drivers? Maybe, but maybe not. Better for society as a whole? I lean toward no, even if the only factors we consider are congestion and pollution.

Zoning laws need to be addressed, and we need to do something about housing prices in major metropolitan areas. But at the same time, we don't need to allow the construction of meat packing plants in the middle of residential neighborhoods, and we don't want to promote construction of what will end up being slums in the name of affordable housing.

There is, like always, a balance to strike.
In fairness, they always charges $1,000 for a monitor stand, the difference is now that the monitor stand breaks when it’s out of warranty.
I think they are just being honest, this has been followed by many many companies before them. Nothing wrong with advertising and getting the clients then building product from that point. Its all free anyway, its not like they are taking people’s money upfront.
This sounds like hell, and just proves again that wrong metrics are way worse than no metrics at all. You wrote "I had a manager" so I assume you took corrective action :)
To be fair, the author says to not fiddle with priorities if possible

> Conclusion: If possible, avoid headaches by just not fiddling around with thread priorities.

I often see developers using complex and potentially dangerous techniques, when there are simpler options available. I imagine that's what the author is warning against
iMac and iMac Pro are at the right price points to fill that space, but I don't think they fill it for everyone. I would love to have a mid-powered desktop computer at home, but also be able to have my choice of monitor setup - dual 4k monitors, or an ultrawide. And I would love to be able to work from home occasionally and plug my laptop into that same monitor at home. Having the ram or video card or hard drive be upgradeable is another nice to have.

The iMac Pro doesn't allow any of those things. There used to be a target display mode which was awesome and solved at least one of those problems, but Apple removed it for technical reasons, and now even though newer display port protocols now exists with enough bandwidth to drive the 5k display from my macbook pro, Apple has made no mention of bringing it back.
When there is so much regulation there is a point where the only real law becomes "have you sufficiently annoyed someone"
"I do some open source contributions" is not easy at all at Apple.
Is there a global or user config that overrides the environment config file?

It seems less valuable if the prefix is hard coded to the specific user. To a lesser extent even specifying the name may be too limiting.
It's a little unclear to me. But from what I can gather, the basic software can download data from OSM, but if you want hillshading or satellite, you have to get that separately, and it's part of the $1,000 "production package" [1], which is actually $2,048 for businesses, plus $1,024/year for updates.

[1] https://openmaptiles.com/production-package/
Fission is way way more efficent then chemical already. If that efficency is not enough, fusion will not do the trick either.

Efficency is the last issue fission has.
I'm repeating myself but just to put this near the root of this thread:

You should be able to right-click on the application icon and choose "open" from the context menu that pops up to make this problem go away. (Assuming you trust the developer, of course.) This message is just a more strongly worded (and less convenient) version of the dialog that has always come up when opening side-loaded apps for the first time, at least in my experience.

It looks like Apple's newly introduced "notarization" process will avoid this step, even for apps distributed outside of the official App Store, but that process will take a little bit of time. In the meantime you'll need to take the right-click-and-choose-open action.
These are banned for new construction though, and new construction would not have lead paint, and would be inspected for fire hazards.
Your comment violated this guideline: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." In fact, you violated it so egregiously that if you don't see the connection, it might be best to stop posting until you do.

Regarding bias: I know how tempting it is to conclude that the mods must be moderating you because they secretly disagree with your opinions and support your enemies. The thing is, though, that the enemies feel like we're secretly supporting you. In reality we're doing neither, just trying to preserve this place for curious conversation, which is mostly a fire prevention job.
Many leaders of corporations would put a finer point on that - the goal certainly is to profit, but not to the detriment of the broader society in which they operate, nor to their employees or partners:

https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redef...
A lot of the additional fee goes to Visa/Mastercard instead of the issuer. Issuers want to focus on their own benefits, so they skip card network's premium tier cards and instead try to sell their own benefits (with or without a yearly fee).
The thing is, though, that many modern startups don't make a distinction between doing an integration and writing software.

It sounds like OP did the former, which means there's not likely an original product to sell, just a custom assembly of other products that form a system. That's a worthwhile thing to build and can be a money maker, but it's not an asset itself.

If you take away the installs of the products that make up your solution, then look at what's left... that's the asset that's being offered to OP. It might be something worthwhile, but most likely he's being offered it because he has an emotional attachment to what he's built, and they think he will take it without looking too closely.
And for large companies, even if they don't "own everything you create" they often have their fingers in enough pies for anything you could come up with to be construed as being a conflict of interest.
Sure, but I'm aiming to moonshot, own the taxi, car, and self-driving AI industries, and become the world's first trillionaire.
His lawyer said he has Chinese citizenship

> “The government’s argument that Mr. Zhang poses a flight risk because he is a Chinese citizen is insufficient to warrant GPS monitoring,” Olmos said in a filing

EDIT: wrong person, confused Zhang and Chen. Zhang is a Chinese citizen, Chen is the one accused of stealing classified material
I imagine you've read something in my comment that isn't there. I didn't characterize economy as a good experience. I just said this seems no worse for exiting.
Seems a bit of a stretch to assume the guy has _sleep apnea_ if he nods off during a likely pointless meeting. If he's passing out at his desk, then perhaps.
Only if you're below 500k raster tile downloads per month. The app I need this for is at 5.5m/mo, so it'd be a little more than $245/mo. Still better than Mapbox, though.
They effectively restrict it by considering ties to certain countries to be a risk.
But wait, there’s more: the psychology of selling
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Super excited to be running this again! One of our learnings from last year's Startup School was that founders who signed up for our waitlist months ahead of time were unlikely to still be working on their startup once the course began.

By running Startup School more frequently, we hope we can help founders right when they need it. Looking forward to this course!
> Isn't it time to consider writing a new Constitution then?

Look at the state of the ruling parties in the US - what kind of constitution do you think you'll get?
which failure though? failure to meet deadlines or failure to keep people alive?
> A 100% wealth tax on all billionaires isn’t enough to fund UBI for one year.

This doesn't sound right to me, though of course it depends a lot on what level you set the UBI at. In a US context we typically give numbers around 1/3 of median per-capita income (~$10k, out of $32k), and globally that would be ~$1k (out of $3k median per-capita income).

To give $1k to everyone in the world you'd need $7.7T, and billionaires have ~$9T, so it looks like this would work out.

(I don't think a 100% wealth tax on billionaires is a good idea, just surprised by your claim and looking into it)
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I use all three, but MacOS is my “daily driver”, but when my 2014 mbp finally dies the death I’ll have some soul searching to do ...
Please DO tell, I'm literally ALL EARS:

(I would LOVE to write an ALSA driver for a different transport mechanism, but I'm not even remotely clear on how the different parts of ALSA relate, and this is after months of studying https://dri.freedesktop.org/docs/drm/sound/kernel-api/alsa-d... and I can't seem to make head nor tails of the different layers, partial layers, etc.

I am sufficiently familiar with callback-api's and running audio codec's on the bare metal and via microcontrollers.)

Additionally, how does Device Tree and Device Tree Overlays fit into this picture?

Are ALSA transports limited to PCI, USB, etc?

I haven't found a single ALSA driver tutorial online from the last decade.

I've had a plethora of OTHER nonsense, such as why a given soundcards multichannel support only functions as "Surround Sound 5.1", replete with high-pass-filters on the primary pair of outputs it thinks are "Front L & R"...

In terms of ALSA configuration, there appear to be a zillion ways (distro specific) to do so, and none of them appear actively used on my boring old Ubuntu 16.04 system, and I'm not even sure where this mystical blackbox asound.conf stuff is actually occuring these days, but suffice it to say that there are no userland applications that actually appear to address the audio interface properly, and there appear to be WAYYYYY too many abstraction layers hiding crucial hw configuration details from the people who need to use it: aka every computer audio person ever.

I guess what is missing for me is this info on what part of ALSA one needs to write when trying to bring-up new hardware, how DMA can be used, in case of trying to directly interface a la ASoC, or how externally controlled audio devices (an MCU running the codec I2S interfaces, for examples) could be used to load a buffer up and present it to the computer (as the buffer interrupt rate will be closer to 1-2khz even with a 32 frame buffer, vs the strict requirements of the codec themselves)

It almost seems as if that info is not online, or that my search terminology is incorrect
Incidentally, these sorts of things (deed restrictions/covenants) are also what preceded zoning as we know it today. They're just more difficult to enforce because you can't control what happens on the edge of your covenant-protected neighborhood.

This paper has a really good summary of the history here: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/02-03.pdf

> While it would be kinda neat -- as an experiment -- to see how a city would develop without zoning, Houston sure as heck isn't that example.

If you're counting covenants as "zoning", I'm not really sure that such a thing is possible without a major change in property right law (except for the parking and height restrictions, which obviously have a big influence on structures everywhere and should go away IMO).
Exactly, top management. With 100 engineers, that's probably going to max out at about 20 managers. The other categories you mentioned doesn't take more than one or two people per category. That still doesn't account for 60% - (7% Profit) for about 25 people.
Do you have reason to believe that most women throughout history were not happy being homemakers and mothers? Do you believe women are happier now that they are having few or no children and are instead working to support a corporation that will kick them to the curb when they are no longer of use to it, rather than giving love and care to the most cherished people in their lives?

Some women will prefer that sort of corporate lifestyle, for sure, and I don't think anyone is advocating for making it illegal for women to work. But you don't get a successful and happy society by catering to small minorities at the expense of the success and happiness of the overwhelming majority.
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> - It is perfect rent collecting: minimal costs, benefits hugely from scale, high barrier for competitor entry.

This basically describes the Planet Fitness model. They sign up thousands of people around New Year's, none of them ever show up, and a handful of them can't be bothered to go into their location and cancel, so they just end up paying $10 / month forever.
>Git from the Inside Out

https://github.com/git/git

https://www.aosabook.org/en/git.html

https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside...

http://gitimmersion.com/
Unless the health risks are greater than those for homelessness, we shouldn't care.

Absent additional research, my prior is that homeless disease vectors are probably worse, since people in that position have fewer shelter options from the elements and more direct exposure to the public.

Houses don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than what we have right now. I mean, even in a bad situation... there are rats on the street. It's very difficult for me to imagine someone in that condition looking at a house and saying, "no, the street is cleaner."

Maybe there's an extra perspective I'm missing.
.com domains really need to be more expensive. If the price was $100 or $200 a year, that would significantly decrease the amount of squatting.
Part of the fun of this newsletter is encountering that highly relaxed conversation style in the context of the otherwise ultra-business Bloomberg.

Anyway.
Overwhelmingly, to the point of near-universality, foreign-born US citizens don't conduct espionage on behalf of their native countries. At the same time, native-born US citizens do in fact conduct espionage, often in more lurid and damaging ways than any foreign-born agent. What is there to learn from someone's country of origin? Nothing at all.

Penalizing citizens because they happen to have been born in disfavored countries is both immoral and, in ways we're still grappling with since Korematsu, un-American.

See also: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1562123.html
Perhaps it's easy enough in America. Where I am, there are multiple rewards programs separate from credit cards. Some shops have their own special card, and some are part of a bigger scheme with a common card. It's all a mess. I hadn't thought of using it to pay for big things like a house or health insurance!
Yeah, sure, it's a bit idiosyncratic, but Matt Levine is a pretty well-known and popular columnist, not just some random guy. It's a daily opinion column on finance. He's not really going for "professional" so much as "approachable" IMO.
Also on HN front page is SB selling Wag stake back to...Wag
Apparently, the US naturalization process allows prior citizenship to be kept:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/dual-citizenship-all...
I suspect it's like a lot of things. That first job ripple effect helps out in the beginning and then the differences between high and low gpa average out over time.

Like kids in headstart or Pre-K programs. They start out ahead of their peers in kindergarten, bit those differences are completely gone by second or third grade.
I haven't seen a tech employee contract in the Bay Area where you are not asked to waive your rights. The question is, is it enforceable?
There is of course a middle point here... "oh, I don't like this guy and he's incompetent enough so that I can be a little evil to him without risking any consecuence".
"Available" and "available by default" are two different things, and GP didn't claim the latter.
If your at one of the "sought after" companies they have resources for you. Go to your manager for a one on one and ask for help. Where are the code standards, what classes resources do they have to better your design chops. Outside of manager look for someone who has beens there a while and is willing to mentor you.

If you don't get support from your current manager start looking to switch teams to find a manager that is geared towards developing you and making you a success.
Often that has more to do with not wanting bad press about hiring foreigners with tax money than a security thing
Why not? Some research costs billions. Stealing it is practically free. It's clearly in their best interest.
Binding arbitration unless you opt out.
>You got too emotional when reading my response.

I'm not sure there is any stronger interpretation available here. You're baselessly speculating on gp's emotional state. That is the opposite of "assume good faith."
TBH what I find most humorous is no one mentioning the obscure 90s reference :)
Sorry, the "problem" you have is just too alien to me personally. I never had any issues with that feature of Magit, never thought about it until now. Maybe there are people just like you who'd say it's important to them - I can't relate, once again: my apologies.

I'm sure this can be "fixed" by writing some non-trivial Emacs lisp by tapping into `with-editor-finish` or `magit-commit` functions. But honestly, is that worth your time?

Emacs is weird, it makes you want weird things. So many times I would find myself irritated by "an issue" that I just stumbled on, I would write some emacs lips to fix the problem (just because I can), only later to realize there's no problem to begin with.
> Notice how just `git add`ing a file saves its content to the objects directory. Its content will still be safe inside Git if the user deletes data/letter.txt from the working copy.

Holy crap, how do I not know this in 14+ years of working with git?!

The `git add --help` manpage seems to make no reference to this feature, it just talks about adding the file to the index.
A maxed-out Mac Pro will cost you $53,000 – without display
Did they try as hard to manage their reputation as they did to advertise? I saw a lot of cute ads of a dog moving around a map, with a stop to poop, but also saw posts about something bad happening to peoples' dogs, and both customers and dog walkers getting ripped off, and for me, the posts cancelled out the ads, which otherwise would have enticed me. Their reputation is also important for recruiting dog walkers, and the bigger the pool of walkers, the less they have to pay. I'm not sure it's worse than alternatives, because screening animal caretakers is a difficult problem. If it wasn't, I wonder what they could have done to calm peoples' fears.
Of course it's going to say that. What spies say, and what they do has never exactly been similar. Why on Earth would you trust them?

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Secondly have you noticed there have been no additional news articles about this since 2015 when the story first broke? Don't you think if there was an actual violation that occurred that Airbus would still be looking out for its shareholders and there would be more legal cases and formal complaints?

I expect that this was hush-hushed over diplomatic backroom dealings.

And there have been other legal cases and formal complaints. [1] [2] [3] As it turns out, complaining that the US spies on you, and steals your secrets accomplishes... Pretty much nothing.

> If you look at PPD-28 you'll see that it strictly forbids economic espionage. I can think of lots of reasons why US Spy Agencies might by looking at the network activity - "spying" - on companies such as Airbus, but one of those reasons isn't for economic advantages because it is banned by law.

As we've all discovered a few years ago, thanks to Snowden, the NSA is only somewhat constrained by the law when it operates domestically, and is not at all constrained by it when it operates internationally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Germany

[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm
> or you guys are just horrible, snobby people to work with

... Or they work for a (typical) organization that pays lip service to teamwork but punishes individually - by obsessing about meaningless metrics like “velocity”, putting everybody in a position where they have to choose between being helpful productive members of a team working together toward a common goal OR meeting the arbitrary goals and deadlines that lazy managers are actually incentivizing them with.