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The three critical paths for high end sound reproduction are: loudspeakers, speaker placement, room acoustics. Of course all parts of sound reproduction matter, but those three are the ones that affect real systems in practice.

Most other factors are rarely an issue and/or inferior parts have a much lower magnitude of impact on sound quality. Sufficiently good source material (256kbps AAC or better) is widely available. Most amplifiers are fine. Almost all wire/cable is perfectly good. High quality DACs are more abundant than you might think (e.g. the digital inputs of any half-decent AV receiver made in the past decade).

Good speakers.

Good placement.

Good acoustics.

Those are the ones to focus on. They're the ones to spend money on. If you wanted to add a fourth to that list, I'd add an honourable mention to in-room calibration systems like Audyssey and DIRAC. Depending on the sorts of imperfections in a given system the opportunity for improvements with DSP might be substantial and dramatic, or marginal to the point of being irrelevant. (For most systems it's somewhere in the middle.)
I have interviewed with Google 7-8 times over the past 3-4 years (Google has mostly rejected me, but last time I cancelled the process with an onsite scheduled due to personal reasons) - every single time, Google has let me interview with JavaScript.
I interviewed in JavaScript, so that's not strictly true. And if you're interviewing for an iOS role, Objective-C is obviously going to be a hard requirement. But if you say Python then write Ruby in the actual interview, would they really care that much? (any Google interviewers care to answer this?) I gave JS as my primary language but did one of my interviews in Python because I felt like it - the interviewer was fine with it.
You can disable Javascript ... if your time has no value.
I live in Thailand and mine looks -extremely- low.
Pretty impressive, don't know if I'd consider ssh a basic computer skills though.. the rest seems rather practical.
They may be thinking that a strong enough message has been sent to the company's leadership and choose to make progress on the things they need to work on. People that have been at a company longer than five years know that organizational change is inevitable and they are making note of whether the next shift will move the organization in a direction they can support.
You’ll need to back this up with numbers. Not anecdotal evidence from a therapist whose clients are likely to be people who have made questionable choices which is why they are seeing a therapist in the first place …

I know plenty of successful women who didn’t sleep their way to the top, and plenty of successful men who didn’t either.
There's absolutely nothing in the above comment that indicates the person you're replying to doesn't know the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities.
If what you say is true, then I was ignorant and I apologise for that. I suppose judging them for them is just fine. But I stand by the rest of my comment.

"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself." - John Stewart Mill (in On Liberty)
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You forgot sales taxes, additional health insurance fees, and 401k contributions.
That is absurd. Anybody who has read about the history of CD bit depth would know just how absurd that is. And I even personally investigated CD accuracy in burning using an electron microscope to understand how the laser burning process worked on the plastic media. It was absurdly inaccurate. All these claims about how great digital is are just crazy - claims made by people who are relying on old data about hearing accuracy and a religious faith in technology. Anybody who has actually designed instruments using the known laws of physics understands the incredible limitations - and those limitations apply to both characterizing hearing as well as reproducing sound digitally.
Given the way he suddenly went to radio silence, I just assumed he was hired by Apple...
Time to bust out the popcorn!

James Damore was fired because his memo created a “hostile work environment”, but organizing a walkout with 1500 employees has the support of Pichai, the CEO?

And these same employees want blood from Brin and Schmidt, who are essentially among Pichai’s bosses? Things could get very ugly, very quickly.

The inmates are running the asylum.
how long do execs last at Google if they lie to their reports?
I'm curious, how is half-hashing the password different from really hashing it?

The best protocol I know of is to derive a signing keypair from your (salted, stretched) password, and store the public key on the server instead of a password hash. Then during login, the server sends a challenge to the client, and the client signs it. The server never sees any secret material at all. Keybase uses a version of this protocol.

Unfortunately all the magical client side crypto in the world doesn't save you if the attacker can compromise your server and then send clients bad JS :p
> You’ll need to back this up with numbers.

I agree, this space needs to be opened up for more research.

>I know plenty of successful women who didn’t sleep their way to the top, and plenty of successful men who didn’t either.

Do you think people can lie to not playdown their success? Or to make you believe they deserve it.

It might be selection bias but i agree we need real numbers here.

But opening up a discussion is better to find measures to crack down on sexual harassment.
Agreed. This has been an eye opener for me as someone who has worked mainly in smaller companies whose job levels didn't go beyond junior, mid-level, senior/lead in my profession. Granted, the concept of target schools still adds some bias to candidate hiring, but it's better than in many non-technical careers.
Bingo.

And what I often crave is the less accurate vinyl sound, that coupled with different production values.

Not better, just resonant with me. Easiest way to explain it.
I had to purchase a CalDAV and CardDAV app (which were extremely cheap, mind) for Android, so it's not quite as plug'n'play there.
It seems you got downvoted. But there is heavy sensoring attempt behind these. IDK why, people are not willing to talk?
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Dude you do know who Zakas is right? The guy wrote so many advanced JS books, and is essentially a rockstart in the JS world.

His compensation is actually less than I anticipated, given that he is in the bay area...
What many of the comments seem to be missing is that you don't need to enable javascript on all google sites, only the sign-in page. With that in mind, I don't think there needs to be as much concern as we're seeing here.
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At least a few other detections have been reported by LIGO, and I assume that they, like the first one, are correlated in the data from Hanford WA and Livingston LA.

Doesn't anyone looking to debunk the LIGO results need to first explain what is producing correlated signals at interferometers thousands of miles apart?

Also, are the incidents we're receiving in the US producing similar data at VIRGO in Italy?

If so, then wow, Jackson has a tough case to make.

If not, then why not?
No, it's not. The lack of availability of guns is the sandbox, the cultural more of not killing people is the access controls.

"Bulletproof vest" in this analogy is "extraordinary activity designed to keep you safe".

You don't "wear a bulletproof vest" (a stand-in for "take extraordinary measures") to prevent yourself from "getting shot" (a stand-in for "thing that happens very rarely").

In other words, your assessment of the risk of JavaScript running in a browser is higher than it actually is.
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No apology needed! I understand how attractive the argument Gab is making is. That's why they're making it. There's no reason you should have had to be vigilant about this bunch of evil randos. I appreciate you taking a beat to listen.
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The time namespace is being worked on, it's a very difficult problem because of how pervasive time is in the kernel.

Here's a recent in depth LWN article about the topic. https://lwn.net/Articles/766089/

They keychain stuff I haven't heard about any work being done but I don't know any reason it shouldn't be doable.
Pretty sure it was introduced here:
https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/commit/c10988c130af09087...

In this commit a bunch of code was copy-pasted from BSD into ip_icmp.c in icmp_error() to quote IP packet data in icmp error responses. Unfortunately they forgot to copy a line from the BSD source which would prevent the overflow:

icmplen = min(icmplen, M_TRAILINGSPACE(m) - sizeof(struct ip) - ICMP_MINLEN);

m is allocated with a fixed-length buffer (mbuf), which means without that line above we can overrun it:

m = m_getcl(M_DONTWAIT, MT_DATA, M_PKTHDR);

Copy-paste programming in core networking code...
You forget that many of these compensation numbers include a large portion of equity that many people hold for 1yr to get long term capital gains tax of just 15%.

Many of these equity packages include components that can top 6 figures a year. $100k in equity every year for 4 years is not an unreasonable equity package for a mid-senior engineers (5+yrs exp).
I'd go as far to generally say it just means United States culture.
How does Netflix have one engineering level?
It is so difficult to explore anything that Google announces without passing it through the lens shaded by their ad business model. It doesn't matter with what intention they implement a change or if those intentions are pure.

Sure, this will make the login secure by preventing credential stuffing. But doesn't this also help them get more data from users who preferred not to by disabling JS? And was this the best and only solution to tackle this problem?

I believe internally too, Google must struggle with this perception.
Maybe this is an obvious question, but is spacex allowed to bump / not take orders from its opponents in favor of its own internet satellites? That would effectively force any competitor to launch with someone more expensive, allowing spacex to corner the space-internet market on cost, right?
Browse new, you'll see the same submitters over and over again. Create a system and people will game it.

Wouldn't be surprised if they are sold or used ideologically to sway opinion. The internet once prospered and thrived on anonymity but feel that sentiment is shifting back towards integrity and longstanding handles. Perhaps there's a way to do this still pseudonymously with zero knowledge proofs, though likely will be yet another system capable of being gamed.
The California tax rate is off - you get taxed certain percentages up to a certain amount (progressive tax). The effective tax rate for $500k in California should be about 9.44% pre-deductions (should be effectively lower than this).

Should be roughly 42% pre-deductions/writeoffs.

...But in truth, if you're making around the $500k ballpark, you're doing pretty well financially.
If you want to automate your actions, you should get an API key and use the official APIs.
Any advice on where to read more about these modern cred stuffing countermeasures? I'd love to learn more.
In the world of cryptography, patents are the kiss of death. If you patent an algorithm and do not provide royalty free, non-exclusive, transferable, permanent grants, then no one (or very very few people) will use that algorithm.

Sometimes an inventor can make a little bit of money from a crypto patent, but to do it you need to get an organization like the U.S. DoD to pay for it, and that's not easy.

It's a lot easier to use one's cryptographic innovations to burnish one's reputation and leverage that into very high consulting rates, say, or founding a startup.
Why don’t the numbers always add up? A Tesla P3 engineer lists his or her base as $130k, stock grant as $150k and TC is listed as as $168,000?

Does it not check whether the numbers make sense?
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> Having a bunch of employees standing around being unproductive hits them right in the wallet

But this is already true, whether there is a walk out or not.

Even if they are sitting at their desks, if the employees are all frustrated and have other matters on their mind, are they producing good work? I would say no

Execs see the battle has already been lost, because it has been. The company morale has been hit, doesn't matter if walking or sitting at your desk or whatever.
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That’s part of the design of Optane (née 3DXpoint): it’s supposed to be lower latency than traditional SSD and higher durability. I don’t know enough about the how nor the details to say more, sorry.

This article from Anandtech [1] covers the SSD variant though which states:

> The endurance rating for both capacities is 200 GB/day for the five-year warranty period. Given the small capacity of the drives, this works out to 1.7 or 3.4 drive writes per day, which is considerably higher than normal for consumer SSDs.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12512/the-intel-optane-ssd-80...
> Amplifier designers most certainly are.

Amplifier designers have to sell to a market that is rife with misinformation and a very poor signal-to-noise ratio between technical quality, profit margins and overall market success. I wouldn't expect many of them—especially the ones who have any name recognition—to be concerning themselves with objective technical performance.

Whereas the guy who designed the amplifier circuits for a product where the customer isn't being placeboed by the spec sheet—like powered studio monitors, or consumer devices like the Apple HomePod—is far more likely to be focusing on objective measurement rather than faulty market perceptions.
My history from Midwest to Mountain West

2004-2014 53K - 85K at the same company ( Had a shit ton of extracurricular pursuits.. didn't really focus on software engineer growth)

2015-2017 95K - 107K different company

2018 contracting 170K contractor at different company

2018 FTE 140K + bonus + benefits at different company
>I even personally investigated CD accuracy in burning using an electron microscope to understand how the laser burning process worked on the plastic media. It was absurdly inaccurate.

I can believe that, but the standard was designed to tolerate high bit error rates. 25% of the bits are redundant, as part of a error correction code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-interleaved_Reed%E2%80%9...

This scheme works very well, as proved by people consistently ripping bit-for-bit identical copies of CDs pressed or burned with the same audio.
Starlink, not having the speed of light slowed down by fibre, should have lower latency over long distances.

26ms lower from new York to London (total 50ms).

Past instances of this sort of speedup have shown that this is worth billions to high frequency traders...

Reddit post that includes includes links to the academic paper that latency number is coming from, and lots of other useful information: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/9sy4q7/starli...
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I am trying to build an app that will match readers based on books that they have liked. Essentially, whenever a new user is signed up, I want to go through the list of all users and give them a score depending on their match with the new user (2 points for each book match, 1 point for genre match) and then send the new user top 5 users with the highest score. Problem is this really sounds inefficient. What would be a good way of doing this? Should I look into graph dbs?
I see millions of questions along the lines of, "how can I tell if he/she likes me or not"?

I have no idea why Quora seems to have decided I'm some socially awkward teenager.

Maybe I clicked on something like that once and it has never forgotten.
I tried to go Google-free once. Uber and Maps were a pain to live without but not impossible. Hangouts with Voice integration has me absolutely hooked. If someone could tell me where I could get a replacement that:

- Works on all devices (web, desktop, phone)

- Supports IM but also traditional SMS/MMS

- Supports video calls but also traditional voice calls

- Is free to use

- Is a single app

I could probably do it but until then I just take my hat off to those that manage it.
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TLDR; The author argues that you want to aggregate the demand side and offload actual production, inventory and even logistic to someone else. The example is Kylie Jenner who runs billion dollar cosmetic business through 5 employees and only handles brand/marketing while offloading everything else to others.

This is similar in advice from various life coaches like Tim Ferris et al. The problem with this model is that your supplier eventually will take over your marketing with parallel product and leave you in dust. Margins in business are like vacuum and people will eventually move in to reduce them.
There are also employers who don't treat their employees like children.
> where having a 2400 to 3600 baud (or voice and SMS) service that functions literally anywhere on the planet, pole to pole, is a highly desirable service.

I spent a year at the South Pole, where Iridium was, practically speaking, our only link to the outside world for most of the day. The higher bandwidth satellites are only available part of the day, either due to their orbit putting them below the horizon (Iridium uses polar orbits, unlike most communications satellites), or them being booked by other users. As you say, it's priceless for the occasional problem where help is needed from experts up North. Nominally, the station also has 24/7 text email through Iridium, and a couple voice lines, which is mostly a good thing for people's sanity.

Shortwave radio could address some of those uses, and there is a one there too, but it would be a rather different experience without something like Iridium.
Canada doesn’t have anywhere near the worker protections of the EU. It’s not quite “at will” employment but...

I live in Canada and work remotely for a US tech company which has helped keep my comp competitive. It not about laws or taxes really (ours aren’t much more than California really), it’s that the wage inflation / talent war hasn’t quite made it up here yet.
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> However, you get health care out of that and can retire early with a lowered risk in terms of health issues.

I’m not aware of any major tech company in the US that doesn’t offer excellent health insurance and retirement plans. And the quality and availability of healthcare in the US is arguably the best in the world, if you are insured (that’s the ‘catch’ I suppose).
From my perspective of using Word2Vec for sentence instead of individual token, there's too much data lost in the process. Generally when generating embedding for sentences embeddings for each tokens are averaged out to generate embedding for the sentence and in the process of averaging data is lost.

Could you elaborate how you are generating embedding for sentences? I am really curious.
You're not trying to block the average user, you're trying to block the people trying to abuse the system.
This is false - employers do give less. My own FAANG stock for my initial compensation when I joined my company was at $105k in RSUs, and they jumped up about 35% (was even higher, but the market is a little volatile currently). My refresh grant after a little over a year was $125k in RSUs, which turned out to be less stock by a not insignificant percentage compared to my first grant!

My read of the numbers floating around the internet suggests my refresh grant was for outperforming and my TC is high for my band. Whether my new TC is less than my first year, who knows. I'm happy with my work, and while the comp could be better (I should be at the next band but promotions are slower to come by in FAANG), I don't know if I'll ever even leave my company given that my total comp for a mid-level software engineer (at my employer) is already over $300k.
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Location matters a lot, for all tech companies. Cost of living in Bay Area for example is really high, and salaries reflect that. The exact same position in two different cities can vary by 20% or more depending on location, and that's true for any company.
Thank you for this. I was bruising reading the article.

I also agree with your point about vacuums in supply chains closing quickly.
> You forget that many of these compensation numbers include a large portion of equity that many people hold for 1yr to get long term capital gains tax of just 15%.

Actually for RSUs you are taxed at vest, so it's your pay tax rate (probably in the realm of 35%+). What's taxed at 15% after a year is any additional gain from vest time. So if you get 4 google stock at $1000 a piece, they sell 2 to cover your tax liability, refund you the difference between $2000 and .35*4000, and you get 2 stocks you've just paid full taxes on. If in a year they're worth $1200 a piece, you can pay additional taxes of only 15% on the $400 you just made by holding onto them.
one of the other satellite architectures that could address the South Pole high bandwidth access problem, basically the same thing as o3b, but in 90-degree inclined polar orbits. The o3b meo satellites are generally visible anywhere within plus or minus 45 degrees latitude from the equator, because they are in Equatorial orbits. But if there was sufficient market demand there is nothing to say that a highly inclined orbit, similar system could not be deployed.

the existing starlink test satellites are in highly inclined orbits, so if there were a great deal more of them, this would also be a possible solution.
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https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2012-07-08/final-af4... indicates that the startle response played a major part in the accident. And in fact I don't think it could possibly have been otherwise, several minutes of failure to think rationally about the problem of dropping out of the sky even while trying to pitch up admits few other solutions.
The 6 bits worth of SNR (36dB) for tape does sound implausibly low, even for consumer grade compact cassettes. And professional 1/2" reel-to-reel could do substantially better, although still worse than CD quality.
It is funny (sad and maybe a red flag but also funny). His job description is based on where his money goes, not where it comes from.
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I don't make my bed in the morning. But when my bed happens to be made, it is so refreshing to just come at night and sleep soundly. Like a reset button was hit.

I get it now. Sort of.

But the problem doesn't go away.
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Those are the 3 big ones. You can code in pretty much whatever as long as you're interviewer can understand your logic. Please post here when employees in your company understand all languages possible. Op maybe an outlier but many employees go above and beyond to not make language a factor.
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