skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practical edge crossing minimization for large graphs (e.g. a billion nodes) is a really hard problem.
An alternative formulations that's seen some use in graph drawing & circuit design software is to describe the embedding problem as an optimization problem: find an assignment of coordinates to nodes such that the edges (line segments) don't cross.

It turns out that estimating a lower-bound on the # of edge crossings of an embedded graph is equivalent to solving an SVM-type problem, and one can characterize the optimal layout as the solution to a nonlinear optimization problem. What's typically done, though, is to alternate between finding the bound for a fixed embedding & optimizing the embedding with something like gradient descent.

It gets a bit more confusing once you realize ic netlists are hypergraphs, and edges correspond to sets of nodes, (e.g. the "embedding" of an edge of a set of nodes is sometimes modeled as a rectilinear steiner tree).

For edge crossing/congestion minimization, the authors are Shabeer "Edge crossing minimization", Spindler "Congestion driven placement/RUDY", RePlace for a sota academic force-directed placement algorithm.
It also mentions how bad image only systems are such as handling reflective surfaces etc.
I’m very impressed by the video quality and the bitrate. The DJI FPV systems sending HD video use either 25 or 50 mbit/s, while this is getting comparable quality with an order of magnitude less throughout. It has me wondering if the 25mbit/s is a large amount of error correction bits sent in order to improve latency.

Two questions I have - what is the video latency for this system versus a DJI FPV system? And how many devices can be supported concurrently from a single access point?

It would be exciting if this tech could evolve to support “crowded fields” for FPV races.
> People who are moving to luxury housing live somewhere now, which is less new.

People living a $1mil shithole aren't going to be moving into a $2mil luxury home. You need to find the buyer that can afford a $2mil luxury house. This is why the problem takes so long to work out. Prices are inflated, and luxury homes will be inflated even more - the people that would normally buy them aren't going to be able to move and afford them. Combine this with how people can just sit on homes rather than sell them, it's gonna take a real long time for prices to make their way down.
I personally believe we crossed that Rubicon once we granted the play store our vaccination status, contact tracing strangers etc.

That was the undeniable shift towards hard totalitarianism.
there also are non-nefarious reason for dropping open standards ( obviously lock-in and profit where a big plus for them ), one would be that on your own technology you can implement, drop, and/or modify whatever functionality you want
Yes. That doesn’t make it incorrect. A race to the bottom sinks all boats.
How to cure most social ills:

1. It's illegal to be a victim. Why do you allow yourself to be robbed, or even have a lock put on your door?

2. Penal transport. Since everyone gets to do what they want, I'm rounding up everyone I don't like. I put them on some coast, perhaps one day, the moon. In 10 months, 10 tons of processed materials, like fuel, are waiting on the coast line. If they are one ounce short, the coastline gets microwaved.

It would be impossible to commit a crime. Perfectly legal too. All the law has to do is limit the violence. Mental illness, the worst of it, looks just like intoxication. It takes a very long time to bounce back from it, if you ever do.
I'm not sure we're disagreeing here, and also don't see how it depends.

Religion and science do overlap, but their underlying frameworks are like yin and yang. One is about faith, and the other is about doubt.

Without doubt, there is no need to test something, as you already have the answer. Religion is about having faith, and faith is about not doubting. They do overlap, and the overlap is not perfectly clear, so I can see how some can get confused and think there is science that you cannot doubt, but this is false.

As far as gramma loving you, I think you can doubt that... and you can test it, right? You can test people's love, and you can collect results over time and then derive conclusions. Maybe the nature of love itself is untestable, and therefore has no framework on which to be doubted, so the nature of love itself might be of a religious nature and it then becomes about faith.
makes heavy use of 74181 4-bit slices - remember it's from a different age, very CISC, lots of microcode
Okay, but giving them housing likely doesn't eliminate the emergency treatment, nor the jail time, in a great many cases.

(I would guess a majority, but I have no data to back that. My expectations is that the transient homeless are not getting into trouble for the most part.)
Wow, buying a house and leaving it vacant most of the year doesn't seem like a very good investment. In my experience when people I've known bought an investment property the number one thing on their minds was occupancy, and if they thought it would lie vacant for more than a month or two, they wouldn't buy it.

I do see your point about foreign investors though, they will view the house as a bank account, one that won't lose money, and will probably appreciate, and is safe from the corruption (or corruption investigations) of their home country. And they have money they need to put somewhere, so why not there?

But even they would probably prefer someone to be living in it and paying them in the meantime, because that improves the return by a lot, and doesn't put the principal at risk.
How much changes I need to make if I want to add open telemetry in my existing application?
Facebook to stop automatically adding a ‘fake news’ to C19 lab leak discussions
> most of the left-right difference on this issue comes down to how strongly they feel about the infraction in question

I would say this is pretty clearly the case. Most of the time the question seems to be "is this cancel-worthy": the difference in your reaction to the "cancellation" of, say, J.K. Rowling vs. Nikole Hannah-Jones probably depends more on your feeling about what they've done than on your stance on "cancellation" itself.
The memory chips can be abused as big lookup tables, condensing potentially hundreds of discrete logic gates into one chip.
Somehow I doubt that's a considerable driver of affordable housing prices, but it's possible. Where did you get that from?
Most angels are willing to do remote #ThanksCovid
> You would never dare vocalize these same threats and and accusations publically - and even if you did, in the pre-internet days, it would reach far far fewer people.

It would reach far less people, yes, but we used to burn witches, too, so it seems that internet mobs are just a modern manifestation of that.
That story doesn't sound very likely to me. If something like that actually happened, for sure your colleague didn't submit to a "quality" journal.
61% of republicans believe the election was stolen and 53% believe Trump is the true president. That is an untenable detachment from facts and reality from a major political party.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/news/pol...
[insert that Upton Sinclair quote here]
It's not just Adams. Search for Joseph Massey and you'll find his article is posted on the far right sites Quillette (former employers of Andy Ngo) and The American Mind (publishers of trash like "Defend America-Defeat Multiculturalism").

I don't know anything about Massey but publishing on these sites makes me think a lot less about his credibility.
I’m not sure it would be a whole generation, but I could see a decent percent taking a generation.

Anecdote time

I’m nowhere near rich, but we recently upgraded from a condo to a house and kept our condo. Our intention is to rent it out until our kid is old enough to move out and give it to them.
> The biggest Chinese companies only exist because of stolen technology.

We can debate the origination of their know how just like we can debate the origination of Covid. But at the end of the day what matters are the results, and China demonstrated with Covid how much more successfully they were in execution than we were. That same scenario is being replayed in board rooms across the globe - the Chinese people are hungrier, work harder, and get results more quickly. Granted, there are still gaps in some areas, but the margins are shrinking every day.

> Maybe in the short term they'll see some growth, but in the long-term innovation will always prevail.

You are somehow implying that the Chinese people are fundamentally bad at innovation. That's neighboring on being a racist statement that you should take a moment to reflect on. Just like innovation is not limited to the Bay Area, it's not limited to the US either. The Bay Area did in fact produce a disproportional amount of breakthrough ideas in the past 50 years, but not because their residents are somehow genetically more superior to other parts of the country (and ironically, you might be surprised to find out just how many Chinese workers stand behind so many of those Bay Area companies). It happened because the infrastructure for ideas was there (lack of enforcement of non competes, high risk tolerance of financial backers, previous waves of successful founders sharing their know-how with young founders and pouring money into new startups, etc). The pandemic has removed the need for in-person meetings for fundraising, and suddenly we're seeing an even more pronounced decentralization of the Bay Area, which should prove that innovation is not tied by city, county, or country borders - it's tied by regulatory, educational, and financial constraints, all of which are rapidly improving in China.

Once this current wave of Chinese mega-successful companies cashes out, the next wave will be even stronger. It's only a matter of time until a suitable ecosystem forms in China that will give their people the right ingredients to kick our ass in innovation, on top of all the other things they are already kicking our ass in.
A friend of mine has a house set on one of the boundaries, the west half of his roof empties into the Mississippi, the east half into Lake Michigan.
What happens if people start colluding behind the scenes of arXiv to change their records? Even if the people running it now are totally trustworthy, they won't be in control forever.
You can, /remind works in channels. That's how a lot of folks do it.

Ninja edit: you can even leverage mentions in these reminder messages, to ping yourself or your team.
Luxury second homes should simply be taxed at a high rate, it’s one of the least defensible indulgences so with enough of a campaign it could happen. Ditto for speculative foreign buyers, this is already happening in some cities that have been hard hit by such “investments”.
That is more than what I earn in a month lol. Economies of scale.
Boarding houses used to be pretty common in the USA. Are they really illegal to build now? "Sober Living" homes seem legal to build, they're all over the place, and they meet the definition of "boarding house".
Usenet predates it by 5ish years
It’s very sad that the phrase “$1mil shithole” can actually be a thing.
“ No one knows for sure where SARS-CoV-2 came from. I don’t know, no one does. But there are two ideas. The first is the virus was harbored by an unknown animal, likely bats, where it mutated and picked up the ability to infect humans. Many pandemic viruses — Ebola, the 1918 flu — emerged this way. The other is that the virus was deliberately created in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Bzzzt. wrong.

This strawman is getting old. The virus could have simply been collected and been under study and accidentally leaked.

Why is the lab leak so hard to explain?
This is a lot of fun. As a resident of Maryland, I was mildly surprised to find that the Chesapeake Bay is treated as part of the Atlantic Ocean, instead of an individual waterway in its own right. I suppose this is probably due to the underlying data set, but it doesn't seem right to me.
Are they expressing their opinions when they correct minorities on what the minority experience is actually like? How does it make sense when the most privileged people the ones mansplaining privilege to others?

What is the difference between holier-than-thou woke elitism that is commonplace in tech versus supremacy? Why is that tech workers from white, white, white suburban backgrounds ( which includes Asians ) where their parents paid for SAT prep courses also the loudest voices in social justice movements while the blue collar minorities I talked to were busy in their hourly work during the pandemic instead of having the privilege of encouraging protests in the middle of a pandemic ?

The data shows minorities including blacks and LGBTQ have trended towards Trump since 2016 while upper class whites have shifted the other way, meanwhile the narrative of racism, inclusivity and toxic righteouness has been escalated by the left. But of course, anyone who supports Trump is racist, dumb, uneducated, when quite possibly they don’t care for him more so than the rejection of white progressive ideals and the white owned tech oligarchy
Actually completely agree with you about not making yourself a coward, a fool and a fraud.

I should have been clearer. If you want to stay in academia, not debasing yourself comes at a high cost in terms of your career. It is better to leave than to debase yourself.

Academia is a system worth destroying. Participate in its destruction. Leave. There are so many exciting opportunities to continue doing meaningful work outside of universities and research institutes.
Cool project - and I like that it uses USGS hydrography data.

They publish all kinds of terrain survey information about the entire USA for free. There's probably enough data to make your own GPS mapping device/app.

https://www.usgs.gov/products/maps/gis-data
Yes. Among many other approaches and models: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_effort_es....
The saddest part of this, is that instances like this will overshadow the real scenarios of harassment and abuse, and victims of those will eventually be pushed back into having no voice and credibility once again.
If it's not occupied isn't it losing money at least by bleeding to property taxes?
Not sure if this qualifies as my own code but I have a highly modified 3D printer, I had upgraded to more modern trinamic stepper drivers which have sensorless homing and I had forgotten to set a sane value for the torque limit to let the drivers know when it had hit the axis' limit when I ported over my existing firmware config and like an idiot decided to use my finger to test it... I learned that day even small stepper motors have finger crunching torque and that under sudden intense pain you will forget where the power switch you've operated 1000s of times is located.
One of my favourite, Zemestro

http://www.identifont.com/similar?6WX

I like Lemon/Milk too

https://www.dafont.com/lemon-milk.font

And I'm an absolute fan of Futura

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)

The mix of Lemon Milk and Futura is awesome
You ever seen techies living in the mission district?
Because temporary vs permanent is not the correct categorizations of estar and ser. It's more like state vs characteristic. State and characteristic is still a fuzzy boundary, but hey it's a human language.
Hasn't North Korea been living it for like 50 years?
Boy those two certainly haven't gotten better, that's for sure, even though the money spent on "solving" them has skyrocketed.

It almost seems like the more money that gets poured in, the more expensive everything becomes.
> I wouldn’t be surprised if skipping peer review becomes more common as the pace of publishing increases.

This is probably a controversial opinion, but I think this makes sense anyway. Peer review & editing from journals made a lot more sense in the world where physically publishing, printing & distributing papers made out of atoms was expensive and difficult. And where retractions and corrections were near impossible, and where we didn't have systems for tracking reputation.

More and more I imagine research becoming like blogging - where "publication" happens by first putting your work online, and then getting feedback in the public domain. And "journals" are replaced by sites like HN or Mastodon which aggregate content and form focal points for a given community.

It won't be perfect, but neither is the current system. And speaking as a mostly independent researcher, the idea of signing over copyright of my work for the privilege of putting my work on their website is preposterous.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant for the kind of corruption described here.
I was a CO-SYSOP of a WWIV College BBS in 1992. Someone uploaded a fake version of wwiv.exe to get SYSOP privilege's. We never learned how, now I see this 2600 issue shows how using DOS exploits on the command line for zip and etc programs.
You are confusing MVP (Minimum Viable Product) with MCP (Minimum Compelling Product). The red square is enough to enable key decision makers to assess the viability of the product. It is not intended to be a compelling product in that state.
Impatience and hostility with new users.
so the law would state that you need to constantly check your phone for the app that tells the current speed limit based on weather, road type, road size, car size, tire type, and traffic
A key point of 1984 is that behind the screen is a fellow citizen; and that the entire structure of oppression is operated by otherwise-regular citizens.

It's sad that "big brother" has lost the connotation of a citizen-operated panopticon, because I think that concern is far more immediately pressing.
Yes, all the vedic religions share the same overarching ideas - karma, rebirth, escaping the wheel of samsara, and so on. I'm not a religious scholar but it's fascinating history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Vedic_religion
https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/pretty-vacant

"Wealth investment leaves an estimated 125,000 homes in London without anyone living in them."

There are 268,385 empty homes in England according to the government (people get a tax break in most parts of England if they own a property that is unoccupied and unfurnished so its quite easy to track empty homes), and half of them are luxury houses in London.

I'm not saying that's definitely the case everywhere, but I am saying it's worth considering.
Imposter syndrome, you have to overcome it before it overcomes you.
It’s hardly reasonable to ignore the evidence of a students suicide note making a specific and detailed accusation of academic misconduct. It’s not a fishing expedition when you’re looking for something that you have reason to believe exists.
Curious about the demographics of the WELL userbase. My impression from language cues in the copy, and from the age of the platform, that the WELL is populated predominantly by graybeards rather than the under-40 crowd. Can anyone confirm/deny?
No quotes from Peter Palantir Thiel? I’m disappointed.
David C. Roy – Wood That Works
The NSA has been recording every phone call and storing every text message for at least three days since 2007 so I have no idea what this guy thinks he’s talking about.
I'm all for building more housing for people. Ending homelessness, by definition, would mean to provide housing.

But the thing is, we don't even need to build more housing. There are more than 30 times more vacant homes [0] than there are homeless. It makes the most sense to redistribute resources more effectively and efficiently. We should be looking at our system as a whole when it clearly doesn't distribute necessary resources effectively (e.g. food insecurity, wealth inequality, homelessness when there are 30 times more vacant homes than there are homeless, etc.)

[0]: https://247wallst.com/housing/2019/09/30/there-are-over-17-m...
There were at least two HN posts recently that posits that determinism is far from dead.

In fact, a central position point was that intuition, preference, and science’s unreasonable bias towards elegance has held back physics for a century.

Edit: Found the most recent one https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00139...
My smart tv spies on me. I think it's helping build my social credit profile that will turn on or off opportunities for me at some point.

Much more sophisticated than jail.
It looks beautiful, but oof, those minimum system requirements. GTX 2080 and 64GB of system RAM just to get 30fps? That's asking a lot. Most games won't accept that even for photorealistic graphics.

Still, genuinely impressive.
Actually, research shows that this effect is mixed, and even in support of "smart and creative" jobs following highly educated people [1,2]. Granted, this is in Europe and I don't see any mention of age demographics in a light skim of the paper, but I'd take this over Friends (frankly, I'd take many things over Friends).

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2016.1...

"Distinguishing between the smart sector and the main sector, the data support jobs follow people and not people follow jobs (as suggested by the aggregate analysis). In the smart sector, the effect appears to be large. In the main sector, the effect seems to be smaller and less precisely identified."

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-30/do-jobs-f... - article version summarizing the paper.
Imagine supporting a terorist state in Hamas. Fortunately most democrats aren’t regressive leftist - yet.
sendsimple is for mail with Gmail and SMTP + SMS + WhatsMessages (will take time) overall making sending simple and affordable
Have you tried Movies Anywhere? It syncs your purchased Movies between most major providers. I wonder if this would allow you to watch the movie elsewhere when this issue occurs at one vendor. With this I now have many of my Apple purchases on Google Play and Amazon and vice versa
It used to be that if you muttered something about bombs and the president on the telephone, you could get two men in black suits at your door. Social media is monitored more than that, though I don't think you get the same response unless you're going through customs. Or are middle eastern.
Thank you for clarifying to an ideologue-dog. If I'd chosen to remain at university, this post would certainly be a wake-up call to me. Respect.
capitalism is the belief they do
Survailance and drone swarm assassins are two areas to be concerned about.
Conversational AI Platform
Google even has a Custom Search API that allows a site's backend to treat Google Search as (essentially) its own search cluster, ala ElasticSearch.

Oddly, I've never heard of any actually using this API. Sites that integrate with Google only ever seem to do so by having their search box bounce you to a Google Search page.
It's the humans that control the AI that I worry about.
In the US corps don’t usually get brought up on charges unless they are being anti-competitive. I don’t see how anyone can make the case that Amazon buying MGM gives them a monopoly in any sector either.
Now if Prime could only fix their absolutely atrocious audio quality. So many movies have very tinny audio tracks, that sound like low bitrate mp3 from the early 2000s. It's awful to listen to.
Yes, but property values in London are increasing at a rate that more than pays for that (many times over actually).
You are correct that the purpose of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is to test if the idea is viable. As you point out you can generally assess the viability of a product long before you have a compelling product (Minimum Compelling Product = MCP)