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High End Instant Audio Mastering Online (Chosen Masters)
Hi everyone! my name is Elon and im a musician/producer turned developer. I launched this product/company (Chosen Masters) in 2018 to give musicians a truly high quality affordable consistent audio mastering solution. Currently the middle of YC Startup School and thought i would post here to see what this community thinks of this. We are looking at making a podcast/video creator/audio book creator tool for processing long dialogue audio. Any feedback is welcome and if anyone wants a promo code to test out the site feel free hit me up thru our intercom message box.

https://app.chosenmasters.com

Here's what the industry is saying:

Repost Network
"Chosen Masters is an affordable way for Artists to not only master their tracks quickly, but get several quality options to choose from. It’s a perfect service operating at the intersection of automation and creativity.”
- Jeff, Repost Network

Aylen
“It will point out certain things, Gives you new perspective on your music without going through the trial and error to tweak your self, a good reference point to check your masters or mix”
- Aylen [Spinnin' Records, Mad Decent]

David Heartbreak (Owsla)
“Masters sound amazing! They were loud, clean and most importantly warm. My expectations were met tenfold for sure.”
- David Heartbreak [Owsla]

INF1N1TE
“Really dope & affordable way for producers looking to get their tracks sounding thick with an extremely quick turn around time. very surprising results for an online based service!”
- INF1N1TE [DimMak,Fire Power, Play Me]

Levianth
“I’d never thought an online service would ever master my music the way i wanted to but i was really surprised when I tried it out. Love the quality and the mastering options.”
- Levianth [Trap Nation, Elysian Records]

Pump Your Sound
“Great quality, quick results, perfect way to master any track!”
Implementing Trigonometry in SCSS, and Lessons Learnt
Bridging analytics and data science workflows with GPUs
Reducing memory pressure on systems that need to handle lots of concurrent connections.
What VPNs should one be using? Should I create my own because what's the guarantee of a vpn actually being trustworthy?
Selling the right to be the default search engine to the highest bidder seems like a pretty good business to be in. Apple reportedly makes $12 billion per year on that.

No, wait... That can't be right. According to this thread that's immoral rent-seeking, and Apple would never do that. Those reports must be lies, and Apple has just randomly selected Google to be the default search engine on iOS. It's kind of amazing that Google has gotten lucky in that random selection so many years in a row, but such is life.
So why use those forums? If all you can do on twitter or reddit and whatnot is engage in pointless flamewars, why post there at all, or read them?

What does anyone gain by spending time exchanging "biting sarcasm" (as per a sibling comment) on an online platform?

Are there issues that we need to resolve with debate? If so, will those issues be resolved by slagging off each other on the internets? If not, is it any point doing exactly that, instead of trying (very hard) to have a level-headed, thoughtful conversation?

(And I do mean _trying_ very very hard because the internets has made little snotty know-it-alls of many of us and that just sucks).
Would you be willing to work with US based companies for hardware?
They already are in the video streaming business. ;)

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/
Not just a You-topia, it’s a We-topia. This is how We build an enlightened world for all of We.
Yet it has 145+ net upvotes. Not really the guy's problem that you don't like his post. Your beef is with fellow HN users who upvoted it, but what a waste of time and energy on your part. Relax and enjoy your day as you clock a little bit closer to death.
If the network is open, your machine may be open to being sent traffic - or attacked - from other devices on the network.
Those blades are very light, probably carbon fiber. If the propeller breaks, the blades would be slowed down tremendously by aerodynamic forces in just a meter or so. Just like a piece of cardboard would be.
I always liked this idea and wish the https://www.atlantacoworking.club/ or similar clubs, collectives, or co-ops would do something similar (instead of it being run by any individual coworking space).
Is that what SHI does?

If yes, hope you can do better than them. As a product owner, I've been working with many resellers and most of time it's not worth it.
Well that was bizarre, creepy, dystopian.

For those who missed it:

The tweets are labelled "Sprinklr" which is enterprise social media management software.

So I don't think Britney is sitting in the warehouse on her lunch break helping to spread the word about how lovely Amazon is.

I think it's a marketing drone sending marketing tweets from fake accounts, possibly tied to to people.

The replies are coming from accounts which all follow no one (so they're not legit accounts being used the way people use Twitter - they're just used to spray pro-Amazon tweets)

Is Amazon actually behind these accounts?

It's legitimately disturbing and my I'm feeling a boycott coming on.
> CEO of a large public company who fails is likely to end up with a ruined career.

Except for the ones that go to prison, that doesn't really seem to happen; people who fail as CEOs tend to turn up in very well compensated executive (not necessarily, but still often, chief executive) positions elsewhere.

The executive class that populates boards and C-suites (and overlaps significantly with the major investor class for whom ultimately boards and C-Suites work) is heavily networked and anyone who fails in a mere job in that class usually had plenty of connections willing to help them get another similar one largely independent of merit.
>WARNER: Joe Healy is sitting in this conference room with Felipe, the IT guy in his buttoned-up shirt.

>HEALY: He's a physically little guy...

>WARNER: He's 5-foot-4.

>HEALY: ...And not overly muscular.

Man, Planet Money's constant interruptions and hacked-apart quotations are just as jarring to read as they are to listen to. It's entirely possible to transition your narrative structure between accessible exposition and raw firsthand accounts--but for some reason Planet Money tries to chase after both, simultaneously, at every second. The result is a choppy, rattling collage of thought fragments. Ugh!

What, you guys don't like style criticism? Complaining about a webpage is okay so I don't see why this should be off-topic.
One thing you always hear is "if the CEO makes a 1% difference, that's another 100M in the bank".

What people never mention is that it is very hard to separate skill from noise. How do you know what would have happened if some average guy had held the seat?

The other one is risk. How do you judge whether the CEO was taking a good tradeoff between risk and reward?
You are correct that the API server is only aware of the VPC network, and not any overlays. One solution to the metrics-server or other webhooks is to use host-networking mode so the API server can have connectivity.
I just wonder why banks continue to loan to this company? Their expenses are pretty consistently double their income. They grow by selling the product for way too little. Do they expect that customers are going to stick around if they double their prices?
On the board? Not really unless they're activist investors with some substantial slice of the total shares. The vast majority of shareholders do not actively participate in the compensation decisions of the CEO except perhaps at an essentially superficial approval of the compensation package.

At best one might say a vote against would be to sell the shares, but if public companies broadly all overcompensate their CEOs then it's this tension between leaving most of the market or investing in companies that might make money despite overpaying.
I didn’t say free pass. I didn’t say they shouldn’t have the skills needed to do the job. This is about CS trivia interviews, non-applicable to the job. In these cases, fresh graduates have an advantage.

And they are at a great disadvantage if they get a whiteboard architecture interview. If you want to apply for a job as a junior developer in an environment where they care about leetCode skills, you have to be willing to put in the effort. I am not willing to do so. Therefore I’ve optimized my skillset, my network and where I’ve chosen to live so I don’t have to.

I didn’t say free pass. I didn’t say they shouldn’t have the skills needed to do the job. This is about CS trivia interviews, non-applicable to the job. In these cases, fresh graduates have an advantage.

There are all loads of websites and books that can get you back up to speed with that if you need it.
Cumulative inflation rates over the same period[1]: 293.5%

Nominal GDP growth over same period[2]: 875%

This study appears to focus on CEO compensation instead of CEO salary, which is an important distinction as it means large CEO compensation packages are often based on stock increase and not on paychecks.

I'm all for people being paid more, so the issue to me is less about CEO compensation and more about worker compensation. Many of us in tech have seen considerable wage growth in the last decade. Unskilled workers less so. Which is honestly the real concern: as automation gets more mature and as unskilled labor gets more expensive, we could see a stark displacement of workers in america and abroad. I don't know that modern society is arranged in a way that can deal with these shifts effectively.

1. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

2. https://www.thebalance.com/us-gdp-by-year-3305543
This is exactly how it feels. None of the messages to the reps are actually directed at them - it's a show made for everyone else to see and retweet and get upset over.
> the FDA and its counterparts are not going to allow applying those technologies the very moment they are invented.

And probably for very good reasons.
This is true, but the overall reason CEO pay has ballooned is a dramatic cultural shift in Corporate America during 1980s towards stock options/grants for executives. Meanwhile corporate earnings have not grown 940% faster than they did in the 80s. Funny story, for a while, corporate America actually believed that equity pay was "free" and didn't realize that shareholders were paying for it.

The reason worker pay hasn't kept up has a lot to do with simple stock market compounding. The stock market goes up 9.8% a year on average--regardless of executive skill. Even if worker salaries keep pace with inflation (which they don't), they would only go up 2-3% per year.

Further reading, this article from II:
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1db3jy3201d38...

Also, highly recommend this newsletter:
https://eomail1.com/preview?p=d9e18eae-6673-11e9-9307-06b469...

This planet money episode:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/06/22/622646316/epis...
In business you don't get what you deserve.

You get what you negotiate.
Company A: "We believe in xyz."

Twitter B: "You are an <insert insult>."

But that's not what happened. "really like? cause your workers are liars?" is not an insult, it's pointing out that your workers contradict you.
Yeah, won't repeat it here, but see my response to "UnFleshedOne" in this thread.
Do you actually work in the ML industry? Or are you just saying software writ large?

If you actually work in the ML industry, I find it astonishing that you don't think that there have been major breakthroughs in the last 7 years
shouldn’t you have built up a body of work that conveys your level of knowledge so you dont have to endure these assessments?
My current company provides lunch. I take 15 minutes to eat and then go home 45 minutes early. A lot of my coworkers do work the extra hour.
I assume those are supposed to be necessary rather than sufficient conditions, because my immediate thoughts are:

1: Why adults? Why citizen? How do you define each?

2: Why make them equal when you just excluded minors and non-citizens entirely — e.g. you could make it so 13-18 year olds get counted as (years less than 18)/5 of a vote, why is that bad?

3: why is that important, why not require passing a basic civics qualification?

Meta: when non-white people were disenfranchised, were they also treated as “not people”? If so, what other categories currently considered “not people” should in future be treated as people? (If any)
It'll really depend on your use-case. If you're not doing _too much_ volume (less than 1-2TB) and you're willing to put in the work, ELK stack (as others mentioned) will be more cost-effective from a software cost perspective. You'll end up making up those costs in person-hours though, as you'll lose the benefits of managed/SaaS.

If you'd rather not spend the time managing an ELK stack, there's a lot of logging options (disclaimer: I work at one of them, https://logdna.com). It'd be helpful to unpack what you mean by "credible" competitors however. Our product, and most others in our space frankly, can't match Splunk in terms of feature-set today, so knowing what is most important to you would be helpful. For example, if you're looking for basic log storage and search, you'll have tons of options. If you need compliance, that would narrow the field a bit.

I'm happy to chat if you're interested in giving us (LogDNA) a shot or if you have other general questions, feel free to shoot me an email, I'm just peter@[ourcompanydomain]. I'm not in sales so I don't really have any incentive to push you towards us unless it makes sense, and a lot of our competitors have great products as well so happy to try and point you in the right direction.
"the field of science progresses one funeral at a time"
Caution about "switching to ubiquity" - not that their product is bad or anything, but they take configuration of their stuff up several notches if you go with their commercial stuff (not sure about the home stuff).

I had considered switching my home wireless system to using Ubiquity APs and other equipment - then I looked into their configuration software. As someone who doesn't hold a Cisco cert or anything of that nature, some of it made me feel really, really stupid (they have a "demo" of their application on their site - to try out the software first). I'm sure it all has a point in a large-scale commercial deployment, but for a home system it seems like massive overkill, and I was concerned that using it and not setting it up properly might lead me to misconfiguring it and opening my network up worse than without using it...
how about allow any search engine to apply for a slot for free and then list all in random order, including goole search. users can then type the name directly for the popular ones. or they pick random ones until they find one that is good. pretty sure google can find an even better way than this if they really want to be fair. anyway, as it is, they will get fined again, pretty sure about that, EU doesn't like getting off the hook through a technicality
You would think...

But, every competitor that I’ve tried to use is a train wreck. Zoom just works. All the time, every time.
While I'm still in the wait-and-see stage of evaluating Svelte, Pinafore [1] is a relatively big app build using it. It also identified highlights to some extent why wait-and-see is still a good approach for non-spare time apps: it's still on v2 because the upgrade to v3 was rather significant.

It's probably good to let the API and the tooling stabilise some more, especially since the latter includes a full-blown compiler and hence also has to replace Babel, as far as I'm aware (which is not too far) - and TypeScript, for that matter.

[1] https://pinafore.social/
Other real hackers tell you why they love the movie "Startup.com". https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/startupcom
I think the principal of the school where there is widespread cheating among students, should get fired. In addition, commanders are disciplined if their is widespread war crimes by the soldiers under their command. In the case of the commander, ignorance would not be a defense.
There’s a joke in skydiving: “What happens if your backup parachute fails? You aim for the car of the person who packed it”
I’d have to mention humio.com
They’re mainly just for logs, but I really love their query style.
Clearly not someone who thinks in terms of value creation.

If I can add $20m of profit to the bottom line of an organisation, then there is nothing wrong with capturing some of that value, no?

Call it CEO or entrepreneur, at the end of the day, it's the same job, with the same end result.
rideOS launches RideHail API and open-source apps
Or just `cargo build --target` if your distro has cross-compiler + library packages already, instead of needing to use cross's two-year-old Docker images.
Agreed. There is a really funny article by idlewords (who also regularly comments here) about this: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

Not only is the Singularity religion for atheists, it also sparked tremendously bizarre offshoot beliefs, like that "Roko's Basilisk" meme that the "Eliezer Yudkowsky" crowd was briefly obsessed with.
Sounds like it should be entirely commission based ? I don't think anyone sees an issue if you get a share of the amount you generated, but getting large salary without having achieved anything seems a bit unreasonable.
Sort of like if the serfs consent by not revolting, then the aristocrats must have a mandate to rule?
Changes to minimum wage levels are policy, not competition. The majority of these positions are things like service jobs not subject to global workforces.

Basically: you can reasonably argue that a US textile job might pay less today because of competition from abroad. You can't say that about burger flipping or fruit picking. Those jobs are payed less because we deliberately dropped (in real money terms) the legally mandated floor on the salary.
Ask HN: Where to Find Jobs?
I am just learning Python for web dev. I am from non-technical background.

I know basic HTML and CSS so far. I can hack and build simple sites.

How can I find jobs?
I wasn’t getting hired as a data scientist, so I sought data on who is
I mentioned it up earlier but I did try out a simple battery digital min/max thermometer, but every time you opened the door the air temperature would rise above 40F (highest recommended temp to store dairy), which made it hard to use for the intended purpose!

If the thermometer had more thermal mass attached to it (or simply had a low pass filter on the readout), it would have worked great.

I also had an analog thermometer at one point, but obviously the problem here is if the power goes out, then comes back on and returns to the proper temperature.

It should be a simple thing I agree!
Fair enough – I was speaking in a more general sense. A better historical analogy would probably be something like the phenomenon Jared Diamond describes in his book "Collapse"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose...
Both CloudFlare and Zoom are pretty great products and as much as I applaud their team's IPOs, I'm worried that the vagaries of being a public company will result in the GOOG syndrome. That's where a company with a great product is forced to expand every quarter to the point that it becomes a frankenstein-ish hulking version of itself.
Would that make the average person’s life better than if their income had just grown at a reasonable rate?

It’s unreasonable to expect one person to actually have the kind of accountability you seem to think CEOs are simply choosing not to exercise.

I would rather workers just got paid a reasonable wage.
The North Atlantic ocean current may be slowing
For the near future, I'd speculate that human-scale multirotor copters are not going to hold enough energy to be practical.

A design that lets you save energy after takeoff by using lift from wings and forward propulsion... maybe.
Who Will Pay for the Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?
Amusingly(?..) LIBOR-style manipulation still exists in other markets! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-01/was-ch...

Strange to think that incentives like this are/were considered the best solution and can last so long.
This is ridiculous, a sudden singularity. The reason is that computation (brain) power required shows no signs of singular growth, just steady growth.
Did Toyota fool the Lean community for decades?
> All encryption becomes useless.

if you're gonna conspiracy theorize at least go the whole mile. They provide SSL termination so the encryption is useful to them because it gives them a monopoly on the surveillance apparatus. Not useless at all, it guarantees their position in the ecosystem.
They hire that way because they are optimizing to avoid hiring bad engineers. Their entire process is shaped around that goal. In such a process, passing on good people is not considered a problem -- especially when they will reapply, which they do.
+1 on elastic search. We swapped splunk out for es + some inhouse pipelines and it's been a decent replacement. It's not 100% the same. We can't throw random garbage logs at it and create structure, we pushed structured logging onto service owners, but it's covered a lot of our common use cases e.g. what happened with this request?

We haven't moved off of splunk for all of our logs, but have reduced the volume going there significantly.
they really should drop the term ‘AI’ and call it what it is - statistics
Sounds very interesting. I guess you should compare compile speeds with D and Nim, since they are also interested in fast build times.
> They list it as a key element of their business model:

And we all know public companies never change 'key elements' of their business models... (hint: they do)
That’s not how I experienced cases.

There’s no standard question to cut labor cost by X%. One of the things in the case interview is how structured you approach problems. If that problem turns out to be how to reduce cost, one possible approach is to go over all the major costs and ask if/how you could reduce those.

Yes: For labor the potential answer could be (1) paying people less ($/hr) and/or (2) doing the same work with less people (automation, lean). Exploring the option does not mean it’s a desired path. (Eg perhaps the company in the case is already below market wages and has a retention problem)
This is crazy, Google spends billions on Android. They are not blocking you from installing other search engines (now that would be anti competitive).

I think it's kinda crazy that the EU is forcing them to show other search engines to begin with. Only fair that those search engines pay a solid contribution to android development to be featured.

Reminds me of the Microsoft/IE days. At the end of the day better products came along and replaced IE. Showing competitors doesn't solve anything in this case.
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai

It's not just one problem we're tackling, it's actually more like 40 small issues that we're working on.
You actually named a few right there - static code analysis, automatic UI generation from YAML. I also want to be clear that not all of it is AI or ML. For example how we price and spec out ideas (https://builder.engineer.ai/) is fully automated and leverages NLP and NNs, and how we handle developer verification uses facial recognition. However many of the problems we are going after don't require AI; heuristics based approaches and statistical models can actually have better results in many cases.