HackerNews Summary (2023-05-30 06AM)

Source: Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year?

Summary
Startups from the Y Combinator accelerator program are hiring for supposedly high-demand senior roles, such as Senior TypeScript and Senior Machine Learning, but are only offering salaries between $50,000 to $80,000 a year, which seems low even for fully remote positions.

Facts

💰 Startups are offering salaries between $50,000 to $80,000 a year for senior roles.

👀 It is unclear which countries the startups are targeting for this strategy.

🌎 Globalization could potentially equalize developer salaries across different regions.

🤔 It’s possible that these startups are offering unique benefits or work opportunities that make up for the lower salary.

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Source: A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

Summary
Over 350 AI industry leaders, including top executives of leading AI companies and award-winning researchers, are set to release a statement warning of the potential existential threat posed by AI technology. The statement advocates for mitigating the risks of AI as a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear wars.

Fact

💥 The signatories include executives from leading AI companies such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

🧬 Two of the three researchers who won a Turing Award – highly respected in the AI field – also signed the statement.

🌍 The statement calls for AI risks to be considered a societal risk, like pandemics and nuclear war, and highlights the urgent need for global prioritization of mitigating the risks of AI.

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Source: North Korea says it will launch its first-ever military spy satellite to monitor U.S. drills

Summary
North Korea is set to launch its first military spy satellite aimed at tracking “dangerous” actions of the United States. South Korean and Japanese defense stocks rose in response. Japan’s defense ministry plans to destroy any North Korean missile that enters its territory. However, analysts believe this could be an intercontinental ballistic missile test.

Fact

🚀 North Korea is set to launch its first military spy satellite in June, aimed at tracking “dangerous” actions of the United States and showing its increased capabilities to attack U.S. bases and mainland with an ICBM.

📈 South Korean defense companies Firstec and Victek rose 3.8% and 3.3% respectively Tuesday afternoon. Korea Aerospace Industries and Japanese defense company Hosoya Pyro Engineering also gained in stock market trading.

🔒 Japan will “take all possible measures” to destroy any North Korean missile that enters its territory – adding that Pyongyang’s repeated testing of its ballistic missiles pose a threat to the peace and security of the region and the international community.

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Source: sandreas/tone: tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be

Summary
tone is a cross-platform audio tagger and metadata editor. It supports a wide variety of audio and metadata formats, enabling users to dump and modify metadata for formats like mp3, m4b, and flac. The application has no dependencies and is compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, and other platforms.

Fact

🎧 tone supports a wide variety of audio formats, including mp3, m4b, and flac.

📝 It can dump and modify metadata in different formats such as chptfmtnative and ffmetadata.

🚀 tone offers custom JavaScript taggers and a filterable JSON output option.

📚 tone can tag m4b audiobooks and has features planned for splitting and merging large audio files.

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