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Help Test Networking App for Y Combinator Company
Hey everyone,

I'm Andre Woodley Jr., and I'm building a local-social application called "In The Room" that helps people connect easier, in real-time, in physical spaces.

We invest and share a lot of ourselves on social media, and I believe it would be 10x easier to meet and connect with others at physical spaces and events (like networking mixers) if we could share our social profiles (like LinkedIn) with people around us in real-time. This would make networking and connecting more intentional and could spark something bigger.

If you host mixers, networking events, socials, meetups, or any get-togethers (even parties), I'm asking you to take a one-time shot on me with this. I have some investors willing to invest if this makes sense and works, so your support would be incredibly valuable.

We've had some exciting early successes with this concept. We previously launched at a 500 Startups seminar in Los Angeles, and it caused such a stir that we were asked to stop passing out the flyers. We also launched at a meetup and received a standing ovation at a hackathon. However, this was all pre-COVID, and we're eager to see how it performs now.

Asks:
1. Upvote this post to spread the ask.
2. Pass this to someone you think could relate.
3. If you or they relate connect with us.

I'd love to connect and show you more about how it works. Check out our site: https://www.intheroom.social/about.

If you're interested, let's connect! You can book a time with me here: https://calendly.com/andrewoodleyjr

A bit about us: we're a YC company, and we originally started as a skip-line company, but COVID halted our operations. After exiting another unrelated company, we wanted to return to what we truly love: building platforms that help us live life in real life.

Looking forward to connecting and potentially collaborating!

Best,
Andre Woodley Jr.
For those disagreeing, the power of defaults is incredibly powerful, most users are blissfully unaware on how to, or why they might want to change them. Sure, plenty will change it back, but many won't. We've seen this play out with Apple Maps already — Something that may get Apple in trouble too.

Remember that Google was paying Apple 20 BILLION for the privilege, and a key reason they had an antitrust case against them!
This is super great, glad to see you-all up'ing the ante for safety. As you say a good percent of accidents are pilot error based loss of control events (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/GeneralAviationDashbo...). There's a lot be said for getting multiple safety technologies in one package, as you seem to be doing.

I'm interested in your approach to certification. I've heard the LSA limits are increasing dramatically, but how sure are you that MOSAIC is going to turn-out as you hope for fly-by-wire control? Are you prepared for the regulatory environment as it is today by going with an experimental platform like the Sling? Usually there's a mandate for a home-builder to build "51%" of the aircraft, so I'm also wondering how that works for a characteristics augmentation system such as yours. What percent of the control laws fit into the 51%?

On the certified side, Piper is shipping the Pilot 100i trainer aircraft with Electronic Stability and Protection (ESP), preventing students from doing some wild stuff while flying solo, using the Garmin G3X certified avionics. Garmin has also been working on auto-land. With a continued development of these certified platforms, combining a ballistic parachute, how much room is there for you with an experimental aircraft?

I looked at the prescribed spot at Oshkosh and sadly couldn't find your booth as I was excited to meet you-all.. Previously I enjoyed flying Joby's sim which is a great example of Simplified Vehicle Operations (SVO). While they're in the powered lift space, I'm curious how much overlap you two have in the control-law certification path of your SVO aircraft.

Finally, as an aviation startup founder myself (FlyShirley.com - Your AI Copilot from Sim to Sky), I'm approaching this from a different angle for a lot of the same reasons, including how task saturation, fatigue/distraction are contributing factors in many accidents.

Super excited to see more aviation startups on hn. Hope to chat at some point. Cheers!
Google loses antitrust case over its search dominance
Wow. Imagine just having a tether like this [whatever altitude] above your property - if you had multiple of these fibers, one could use them as guy-wires - to hold a balloon with solar powered cam and redundant fiber connections... These should be placed over mountains - remote cabins, ski resorts.

Whats the tensile strength? So if you do use them as a guy - and hit some heavy winds... Put high powered air-plane-warning LEDS... a cam, and a HAM-to-fiber transceiver...

EDIT - Also, several strands of these as guys holding a solar cambloon in place would pose no substantial threat to Big Bird.
TLDR: They just disclosed the most powerful key exfiltration exploit ever found for hardware signing devices...

Pretty terrifying.
I read a few of your articles and just have some parting statements.

If the article on Healthcare Dive, the conclusion includes the statement:
> Grundling said there has to be a breaking point somewhere so long as government rates fail to keep up with medical inflation

So regardless if cost-shifting is occurring or not, reimbursement rates are not doing the job.

The article in Washington Monthly seems to operate under the assumption that Medicare reimbursement rates are the "fair" value and anything above that is driven by greed. Instead it primarily blames monopolistic power as the cause of high prices, which is a power granted to them by.... the government.

So excuse my hesitation when I have a strong disbelief that more government intervention will solve this problem, given the above statements.
Instrument-rated pilot (and engineer) here.

First - congrats on the launch! I think you're working on an interesting set of components that will prove useful to GA aircraft technology. Bringing fly-by-wire, and lowering the cost of maintenance/manufacturing are both great efforts.

That being said, my personal view is that stick-and-rudder control is one of the less critical components to improving GA safety. Everything else - flight planning, comms, automation, navigation, weather, inspections, procedures, regs, and most importantly - working in the federal airspace system - are the "hard" parts of flying and where problems tend to occur. It's common belief that single-pilot IFR is the most challenging type of flying, because of how much you have to do all at once.

It may sound snobby - but I'm not super excited about the idea of lowering the barrier to entry for GA on a foundational skill basis. Like the light-sport rating, it encourages more people to be in the (already congested) airspace system who haven't really gained all the other skills necessary or experience to be there.

To be clear - I think improving technology and lowering costs = good. Lowering early-skill requirements for pilots and pushing more people without all the other skills into federal airspace = very bad. In general, I'd frame this effort more as an effort to raise the bar for system technology, not lower the bar to become a pilot in the first place.
It's not ego, it's marketing, loyalty, and customer comfort.

Passengers don't want to see "multiple airlines" in their itinerary. They wonder if the baggage allowances are the same, and if those bags will make it all the way to the final destination. They wonder if they'll get miles on their "main" airline for the whole trip, or if it will be broken up between different loyalty programs. They wonder if the connection is actually doable time-wise, and if there's a delay, will the airlines work together to either hold the next leg for some amount of time, or rebook without hassles and fuss and each airline pointing at the other, claiming it's not their responsibility.

Codeshares solve all these problems.
aaannnddd ...

>but with tons of proof right here on hn

less than 24 hours after I said that, hot off the hn press, comes:

Google Loses DOJ Antirust Suit Over Search Engine on Phones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240
See it in action here:

https://cheermail.reflex.run/uuid=302ed0f9-8439-42fc-9a54-7a...

I’m unclear how this does anything to help me remember a birthday.
That seems solvable with a payload of a transceiver that is dropped outside the range of the jammer. Then you only need a spool as long as the radius of the jammer + some margin.
I feel like the more blatant monopoly abuse by Google is how they use the Google search homepage to shill their other products. They effectively give themselves billions of dollars in free advertising
I think "Japan raising rates" is more significant than the US jobs report.

For the US, I think there are two major possibilities.

1: unemployment spikes which leads to the Fed lowering rates significantly which leads to more money floating around which leads to higher stock markets.

2: the unemployment goes back to normal, which puts the stock market back to normal.

Both presidential candidates have loose money platforms and neither have plans to balance the budget (Trump through tax cuts, Harris through spending). Balancing the budget would result in tight money which would destroy the stock market. And since the American public thinks stock market == economy, it's not going to happen.
It's confusing, but if you add a "Site search" and then set it to your default, it becomes a "Search engine".
Not defending google but I don't believe that Google is sending the passwords anywhere

This is how 1password does it for their watchtower feature (basiclaly same feature as your google example)

https://support.1password.com/watchtower-privacy/

The way it works is that instead of sending your password to their server to check (which they do not do that). They download known a list of leaked password to local to check.
Growing GA should also create a pipeline for commercial pilots which we desperately need. But let's be honest, flying commercial is a pretty poor experience. Getting to a major airport, getting through security, waiting to board, and then deplaning and waiting for bags at your destination adds hours to travel time. Door to door, I can get from LA to SF in the small plane faster than commercial even though I fly at ~1/3 the speed.

We want our airplanes to be more efficient than cars, but to get there we need to first scale the market.
Right and there are other ways to achieve strong security guarantees than memory safety, e.g. at the OS level by sandboxing critical operations.
> then unfortunately it's totally invalid since it measures time with the `std::chrono::system_clock` which isn't monotonic. Given how long the code required to run, it's almost certain that the clock has been adjusted several times

monotonic clocks are mostly useful for short measurement periods. for long-term timing wall-time clocks (with their adjustments) are more accurate because they will drift less.
Calendrical Fallacy Is
I'm under the impression chrome still uses k-anonymity to check leaked passwords and never sees your password (or the hash of it).
Here's a discussion (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21758388
Crap people with initiative have done more good for the world that the non-crap people ever will.
Possibly. This is just self diagnosis and tbh I'm using the words lightly without understanding their full weight.
The opposite from the Italians.
it enabled apple to make the 12" macbook thinner.
I’m guessing the strain on the spooled end is less and you want the end most likely to detach close to the ground where you might be able to reattach it, vs in the drone where it would fall to the ground and be unfixible.
I think you have an unreasonably optimistic view of the current state of most of these code bases.
>You look at something, and it makes you feel a certain way, think a certain way, say to yourself - wow, I've never seen anything like this before - isn't this a big part of artistic merit?

No. That's how much you like something. A mountain can provoke emotions in you, and it has zero artistic merit.

>What is artistic merit?

Simply put (or at least this is how I use the term), it's the measure of how difficult it is to recreate an artistic work, or something very similar to it, especially without having seen it before. For example, a pattern of 3x3 tiles made by choosing one of two possible colors for each one has very little artistic merit, because the medium imposes so many restrictions that it's inevitable that someone else will recreate it by accident. Likewise if you take a digitized image and you postprocess it with wacky colors again and again (or as in TFA you play with a bucket fill) until what it shows is barely recognizable, it will almost invariably tend towards a certain aesthetic simply by the nature of how the filters work. That's not you putting your personal touch into your work, that's the program doing what it does. If someone else started from the same digitized images and used the same software, would they be able to make something similar to what you made just by accident? Then what you made has little artistic merit.
It's not just nuclear bombs. Contra idunnoman1222's confidently wrong declaration, what anfractuosity referred to is well-established stuff around for decades, not some weirdo fringe thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

A lot of sci fi has "EMP grenades". I don't believe they've been declassified but I'd bet something like them exist. Whether they're quite down to "grenade" size I don't know, though my gut leans "yes". Most people's intuitions about what is possible in what volume of space are tuned for machines we want to be able to use and reuse. If you don't mind destroying the machine in the process, which you've already accepted if you're using the explosively-pumped flux compression generator, you have some options for generating a lot of charge very quickly in a small space, and there are people with experience using them in other applications out there to be hired.
> Easily 80% of all programming consists of bullshit tasks that LLMs of 2024 are able to solve within seconds to minutes, whereas for me some of them would take half a day of RTFM

> I'm doing a ton more non-bullshit work today thanks to LLMs than I did 2 years ago.

Logically this means either there is more non-bullshit tasks in total or some of your coworkers were fired so your workload is the same...

Are you paid more for doing more difficult work, adjusted for inflation?
Clearly “They” was meant in the plural sense. Why the focus on a pronoun?
Recently, I attended an hour long meetup from a high-level AWS employee about CI pipelines using CodeCommit. Of several possible deprecation announcements, the latest of those was dated the day of the talk. (!!)

In all fairness to the speaker, except for having one of the most prominent icons across his slide deck deprecated in real time, it would have been a pretty decent talk. He even made an effort to promote the GitHub integrations as a path forward, and provide some guidance on current tooling. It was clear CodeCommit wasn't the path of most momentum, even if the degree was unclear.
Okay, maybe I'm making unwarranted assumptions that assessments are done the same everywhere, and property taxes are decided on the same way everywhere.

Here's how it's done in Ontario where I live:

1. Assessed value ≠ market value. Assessed value is determined by some criteria such that sqft, #rooms, desirability of neighbourhood, pools, etc correlate with the final value.

2. Actual value doesn't matter at all. If everyone's assessed values go up 10% in the municipality, property tax bills change by $0. What matters is the relative assessed values. They determine how much of a city's tax bill the household pays.

3. The actual process for determining the tax bill: city comes up with a total figure to be collected. City sums all assessed values of all properties. Divide former by latter to get a multiplier (e.g. 1.355%). That multiplier times assessed value is your property tax. (It's a bit more complicated because they collect slightly different amounts from different property types).

Is it different in California?
What Drives Crypto Asset Prices?
In the Web 3.0, it probably does.
In real life, I wonder …
The drone moves, the base station doesn't. The spool goes on the thing that moves, so it just has to unspool to move further. If the spool was on the fixed position, the drone would have to drag thousands of meters of fibre behind it, needing more powerful motors and creating a risk of snagging/snapping.
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Spool on the Drone means a a bulk of gradually decreasing weight, depositing the wire as needed. Spool on the station means the Drone has to pull the entire ever increasing length of the wire, which can get stuck or even ripped by the trees or other obstacles
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman again
Wow, that flight sim demo is inspiring - almost looks obvious like it’s how it always should have been.

I never saw learning to fly enjoyably die to the immense respect I had for the work piloting takes to do well.

If this type of aircraft could also help organize fractional usage and ownership it would create even more beginners.
>On wining and dining, the limits are usually $50. If you go to the D.C. lobbying haunts, you’ll notice that number coming up in specials.

Oh that makes me feel better. They are limited by $x, so why not spend Y million dollars subsidizing some establishment so they can sell "gifts" for $X?

>What about the ACLU or EFF?

Do they use their money to lobby millions to politicians or for proper signal boosting and PR to make the populace aware? I'm not a fan of my money going towards "gifts" either. Ideally these orgs simply help make issues aware and the voters do the rest.
Not necessarily - as it is written, the Sherman anti-trust act and all of the amendments distinguishes between "innocent" and "coercive" monopolies. But the definitions are very loose and hard to pin down.

It's hard to even consistently distinguish a monopoly - is it market share? Earning power? Barriers to entry?
Maybe the quality of life is better elsewhere. Maybe the differences in daily costs of living are enough to offset the flights. The article mentions Albania, where the nominal/PPP GDP figures suggest that prices are almost 3x lower than in the US.
It is true, and that’s why I dislike the top line metrics. The stock market is doing great! Unemployment is low! GDP is up!

But the hidden assumption, that these metrics would be coupled with second-order metrics like life expectancy, home ownership, health, and well-being? That no longer holds.

These consequences today are all the results of political decisions made decades ago. The unfortunate reality is that turning this ship around will also take decades.
Even with compound interest $100/mo is only going to yield retirement like savings over 40 years with >=10% interest rates and monthly compounding.

It also neglects the fact that the cost of retirement might be much higher when that time comes.

Your whole spend less argument ignores the whole point of the article. These disillusioned people aren’t going to spend less because they don’t think it’s going to pay off. They’re optimizing for happiness in the present moment and that might end up being the right choice.
Off the shelf optical substrate just degrades and lazerdiscs suffer from this greatly . There is the m disc series that has a more advanced substrate but I believe magnetic tape is the only backup method that can last very long (other than printing it out in paper).
While not over they have a tough battle ahead. This was a case brought by the Trump Admin and carried on under Biden. I don't see a conservative Federal judge gutting this ruling any more than I do a liberal one.
Does anyone here still believe in #1 though?

I mean, AI is a nice development. But the hype started by ChatGPT doesn't really carry over to all aspects of the industry as much as it's said to. It's really good at some things, and really sucks at some others even though it pretends to do them. It's "Gold" for the things it's good at. It's a bubble waiting to burst for the others.

PS: I wouldn't consider intel obsolete. Imagine they stopped making their CPUs and chipsets tomorrow. Society would be really really screwed. Sure there's AMD but they can't handle all that. They're managing things more traditionally, sure. But they're also in a much more settled market.
Some fair points. What if this tech made the individual flyer safer?

Obviously there’s the additional air traffic, but how much could be in the air at one time?
A few problems:

1. Tone policing is not a pejorative, it's just what they're doing. Saying "please sound nicer" IS tone-policing. If people don't like being told they're tone policing (lol), they should stop tone policing. Problem solved.

2. Association to racism and anti-feminism. Whether you choose to admit it or not, there IS a strong association between all of these. They didn't claim the original commentator was one, but they pointed out their argument is used by them, which is true.

And, the association is real and well understood. That doesn't mean it's a perfect association, like everyone who denies climate change hates women or something, but certainly the odds are higher. Because, generally, those beliefs stem from the same place. Conservative beliefs. Again, not all, but there ARE strings tying those together and they're not made up.

3. Lack of substantive commentary. Sorry, there isn't any to be provided. "Climate denier sounds bad" isn't really an argument, you can't disprove that. They're just noting that bending over backwards is ONLY really awarded to the most privileged. Meaning, nobody asks a climate denier to "sound nicer" when talking about the government. Just like nobody asks a racist to sound nicer in their racism, but if you call out a racist you could very well be told to sound nicer as to not scare them off. As if they're on the cusp of realization (lol).
Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals (2020)
I would like to have seen a comparison that actually includes -fno-exceptions, rather than just noexcept. My assumption is that to get a consistent gain from noexcept, you would need every function called to be explicitly noexcept, because a bunch of the cost of exceptions is code size and state required to support unwinding. So if the performance cost exception handling is causing is due to that, then if _anything_ can cause an exception (or I guess more accurately unless every opaque call is explicitly indicated to not cause an exception) then that overhead remains.

That said, I'm still confused by the perf results of the article, especially the perlin noise vs MSVC one. It's sufficiently weird outlier that it makes me wonder if something in the compiler has a noexcept path that adds checks that aren't usually on (i.e imagine the code has a "debug" mode that did bounds checks or something, but the function resolution you hit in the noexcept path always does the bounds check - I'm really not sure exactly how you'd get that to happen, but "non-default path was not benchmarked" is not exactly an uncommon occurrence)
If these hypothetically had no impact on the rest of the business, and were just an arbitrary payment, they would be the difference between Google having more profit than Apple, and vice versa.