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123•microflash•3d ago•27 comments

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/
390•davidbarker•7h ago•264 comments

Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide

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73•xx123122•5h ago•8 comments

Building a TUI is easy now

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140•abelanger•9h ago•99 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

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97•krapp•6d ago•11 comments

Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

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37•_emacsomancer_•2d ago•5 comments

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

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365•danso•6h ago•351 comments

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

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gRPC: From service definition to wire format

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92•latonz•4d ago•6 comments

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101•austinwang115•8h ago•28 comments

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

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351•DamnInteresting•4h ago•202 comments

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234•scottshambaugh•2h ago•124 comments

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28•i7l•1h ago•3 comments

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716•penguin_booze•14h ago•128 comments

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107•speckx•12h ago•82 comments

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170•ezekg•7h ago•309 comments

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88•fabienpenso•1d ago•33 comments

Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple

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113•jacquesm•5d ago•9 comments

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316•stickynotememo•21h ago•171 comments

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129•dsego•19h ago•14 comments

WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?

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80•thomasjb•16h ago•63 comments

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105•drbruced•4d ago•64 comments

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64•jger15•23h ago•119 comments

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1323•ozzyphantom•12h ago•663 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

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79•todsacerdoti•6d ago•15 comments

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88•mxfh•5d ago•14 comments

Friendship Maintenance

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11•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

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113•CharlesW•8h ago•21 comments

Sandwich Bill of Materials

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201•zdw•5d ago•25 comments
Open in hackernews

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf] (2003)

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf
76•rochoa•10mo ago

Comments

buildsjets•10mo ago
This is well over 20 years old and is based on pre 9/11 flight data. I would suspect that a lot has changed since then. So proceed with no caution at all.
gwern•9mo ago
Since these sorts of things usually only get more and more complex over time, I would guess that it's all still true, but much more so.
throw0101b•10mo ago
(2003)
throw0101b•10mo ago
The PDF was produced by ITA, which famously used Common Lisp:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software

From 2001, a message from the same author as the linked paper:

> (Here's an email Carl de Marcken of ITA Software sent to a friend, describing their experiences using Lisp in one of the software industry's most demanding applications.)

* https://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

Qem•10mo ago
Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?
dieselerator•9mo ago
> Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?

Airlines and commercial aviation operators schedule their own flights. That is a dynamic schedulle. So, perhaps there is no "comprehensive data set".

However, FlightAware makes publicly available scheduled and completed flight data over many routes in the USA. You can search by route and get a list of flights.

Flight information includes filed departure time, route of flight, and speed. For completed flights actual time, altitude, and route is shown. For example, a search on the route Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin lists 45 flights.

I hope that helps.

foundart•9mo ago
A very interesting dive into, as the title says, the computational complexity of air travel planning. Graph algorithms with lots of complexity added due to the wide variety of fare conditions that airlines have dreamt up over the years.

The article may be from 2003 but I would call it an evergreen. While I imagine some of the details have changed since then, I suspect that the complexity has only grown since then.

foundart•9mo ago
It makes me wonder: Would an airline that drastically simplified its fares be more likely to appear in flight search results?

Simplifying the fares would make it less computationally expensive and, in theory, could take fewer steps to answer a flight planning query.

Imagine a flight search planner that, say, fanned out N airline-specific workers when handling a planning query and then displayed to the user whatever results it got back within some time limit. If FooAir had simple fares, the FooAir searcher would likely run faster than searchers for other airlines. Thus it would be more likely to return results for more queries, assuming the deadline is fairly tight because of usability metrics. (People don't tend to stick around waiting for slow results.)

sjburt•9mo ago
At least a few years ago (~2014), the fare search was actually nearly instant, but all major airfare search sites added a delay because customers had the impression they were getting a better deal when they had to wait. It seems like the delay has been dialed back lately.
teleforce•9mo ago
This is a very popular article that get submitted every now and then (nearly every year) [1].

I think this kind of problem would be a very nice for logic, optimization and constraint programming that probably can be solved with modern tools like Google OR-Tool or Monash University MiniZinc [1],[2],[3].

[1] Past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Computational%20Complexity%20o...

[2] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:

https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk

[3] Google OR-Tools:

https://developers.google.com/optimization

[4] MiniZinc:

https://www.minizinc.org/