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> The number of "but AirPods are great" comments on this entire thread is hilarious. Not relevant. The article is about Google's phone, not the iPhone.

Except that a lot of the complaints are not specific to the Google phone. They're about removing the headphone jack, and what people claim are inherent problems with doing so. If AirPods can be used to counter such claims then they're definitely relevant.
https://scholar.google.nl/ is a start.
So, because it was a terminal, to exit it I automatically hit Ctrl+D, which bookmarked the page.

Well played Karlsteltenpohl, well played.
You probably just paste DOI codes there like most of us. Originally, sci-hub supported searching for codewords/topics (by using Google Scholar), but then their IPs got banned from Google Scholar and the workaround is to install this extension. It modifies Google Scholar pages so that all links to paywalled articles are replaced with links to sci-hub pdfs of same articles. Google would never approve this extension, so you need to install it in dev-mode.

But again, for most people's usage, it's completely unnecessary. Paste DOI -> get pdf works without any 'extensions' necessary.
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I'm extremely happy that HN takes a broad view to hacker interests, and we get to read gems like this - not just the daily techcrunch spiel.
Aaron Swartz's death brings tears to my eyes to this day. Even if I have never met him, or talked to him. Or actually ever really heard of him until he had to take his life.

There's a great documentary about this extraordinary guy I assume most have already seen, but I'll post it again anyways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy
Technically the 6s is now [latest - 2] hardware. X/8/8+ have the A11 Bionic; 7/7+ have the A10 Fusion; 6s has the A9.
FWIW, I forgot to mention I used 13 Androids in total over 5 years -- of 6 brands.

My complaints were almost mirrored on every single device I had.

Still, my forgetting to mention this past experience is no excuse for your dismissive message. My "attitude towards Google" is well-founded in reality and is well-documented even on Google-leaning news outlets like Android Central or Android Police. The articles are out there, look them up. Editors who praised Google for years are now disappointed.

EDIT: The Mi 6 is not a cheap phone at all. And it's really good otherwise.
> inevitable outcome

That's the problem here. You've decided the only way Venezuela can emerge through this is by collapse and rebirth.

Pushing 31 million people right to the brink and hoping they fall your way is far from inevitable.

It doesn't have to be that dramatic and painful.
> cross platform

Only mobile, the web version is shitty because it hosts a web server on your phone which is unreliable. And even with that you can only access the web version from one computer and it does not work well on tablets.
I think most people wouldn't assume a discrete nature of finite state changes as I take from your comment. A cauchy series for example orbits around a limit point.

Fixed states would be enumerated by Natural numbers that are extensionally defined in set theory for example as

( 0 ), [ 1, ( 0 ) ], { 2, [ 1, ( 0 ) ] }, ...

Be 0 the empty set, then this is the Von Neumann construction [1]. This is a very tangible notion that represents a total order. So a state is a sequence of inputs and the natural number represents the recursion depth of the successor funtion (succ). But the complexity of that function alone is less than NP, so it would not have arbitrary consequences, so cycles would be the least of a problem. A P-adic numbers field Q_p on the other hand isn't even well ordered. Or Pi, it contains many different fixed length versions of itself in its remainder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number#Von_Neumann_con...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealy_machine
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Yes, big hyperscalers are adopting CLOS networks as used in HPC for decades. 400ns switching, per se, is not that bad (IIRC 100G IB switches have around 100ns switching cost). Though I wonder when they are doing ECMP at the L3 level what the latency is when crossing multiple switches (for comparison, IB does ECMP at the L2 level)? Also, you need software to take advantage of this as well. MPI stacks tend to use RDMA with user-space networking. For ethernet, there is RoCE v1/v2 which is comparable to IB RDMA, though I'm not sure how mature that is at this point.

Certainly it's true that ethernet has stepped up the game in recent years, while at the same time IB has more or less become a single-vendor play. So it'll be interesting to see what the future holds.

Further, proprietary supercomputer networks have things like adaptive non-minimal routing, which enables efficient use of network topologies that are more affordable at scale, such as flattened butterfly, dragonfly etc. AFAIK neither IB nor ETH + IP-level ECMP support anything like that.
> Treat cars as a luxury good

It's subtly different. The core idea is that car ownership has externalities and the implementation of solving these externalities is to limit absolute numbers and let the market decide what use to make of the quota. Luxury ownership is just one of many uses competing. Uber recently pushed prices up a bit [1] as it bought itself a rental fleet for its subsidiary Lion City Rentals; the ROI on these cars is worth more to Uber than what a citizen is prepared to pay to own a car.

A parallel might be real estate. Yes, you could run a warehouse in Wall Street, but even if you get the permits from the local planning association, you'll be outbid by the investment banks. There is even an example of "luxury" Wall Street real estate in the form of 23 Wall Street [2] which was "purposely designed to be only four stories tall" whilst surrounded by skyscrapers.

It is worth noting that the Singapore government actively works to reduce demand for cars, by increasing the quality and extent of public transport, making it accessible to all, and regulating the taxi and delivery industries carefully to enable them to be cheap and easily available. A COE-type scheme introduced in a city without high quality alternatives (such as Sydney or Los Angeles) would cause the immediate fall of the government responsible and a policy reversal from the newly elected replacement.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/uber-bids-co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Wall_Street aka the "House of Morgan"
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Buy some felt covers for the AirPods.

The biggest problem with them is poor isolation.
From the article: "Why can’t Netflix find a self-sustaining business model? Because it doesn’t have to."
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/ has an embedded circuit editor from https://www.circuitlab.com/ , and it works extremely well.
Well, not really.

Sci-Hub has a founder. A founder that may be sometimes be a benevolent dictator, and sometimes not. For example, very recently, this very founder got offended by Russian social media, in which some academics said something unflattering about her, and a biologist apparently named a newly discovered species of parasitic wasp after her. So she blocked Sci-Hub for all Russian IPs. For about a week. And lifted that ban after a number of humble petitions in Russian social media asking her to change her mind.

To represent everything that is good about the internet, Sci-Hub should have been impersonal. Like archive.org perhaps, or pubmed, or thepiratebay. Unfortunately, it is not.

But it's definitely a good thing we have it, anyway.
Yes, I realize that and it's a real shame. It seems Xiaomi can't pull certain strings -- it's hilarious that one has to pull strings to be able to sell phones in USA but hey. Your carriers are a pretty strong mafia. ;)

Jokes aside, again, it's a shame and you guys are missing out. Xiaomi makes the most no-bullshit phones on the planet right after the iPhones.
Nice idea. I really wanted to like this but I'm not so sure you've pulled off the execution. Just after a couple of minutes of usage I found so many compatibility differences between that a real shell that navigating around your site became rather frustrating:

* Tab completion was glitchy
* Deleting characters mid line was glitchy
* Commands don't follow common idioms:
- `ls *` would fail
- `ls -l` would fail
- `ls ` (space char after `ls` command) would fail
* I couldn't select the output from `ls` to paste into the prompt
* Symlinks don't behave link symlinks:
- I cannot `cat` them, have to click with a mouse
- Yet they are still displayed as a file in `ls`
* Common readline shortcuts like ^U don't work
* It barely works on mobile / tablets:
- Scrolling is all over the place
- Screen doesn't resize to use the full screen
- Pain to type commands on mobile keyboard because they auto-capitalise first characters

Also there seems to be some latency between keypress and the character appearing which makes the experience a little jarring too.

Given this is your main way to navigate the site rather than a secondary navigation system, I think it's something you either need to go full out or not bother at all as the novelty of a partially compatible - inspired by Bash - approach wears off very quickly resulting an in frustrating overall experience.
Not only did he type it with a typewriter, all the math notation in the thesis is hand-written! There was no math typesetting available in 1966 outside major printing houses. (Or, I guess, any reasonable priced option for getting your PhD thesis properly typeset and printed at all, math or not.)
Russia is not the most repressive regime in Europe. Are you forgetting Belarus?

My 2c: you also show all symptoms of being a Soros/ShareBlue shill, considering how you try to weave in unrelated politically charged smear content targeting Ass-Angel, into a discussion about a site enabling academic freedom.
nsafs might be another good choice: https://github.com/freedomtools/nsafs
Yes, MEMS microphones of ok quality are a few dollars but you need a few or an array (worse quality ones are cheaper), balanced armature of good quality are not cheap.
This one has really bad SNR (-42 dB)

The space requires micromechanical research and manufacturing expertise. Good luck "disrupting" it.
On the other anecdotal hand, I have an iPhone 7 and do experience this - normally through Overcast but sometimes Music will stutter and jank.

HOWEVER I am running the developer preview betas which are notorious for being UX janky and logging insane amounts of crap on every action the OS takes. Which probably explains it for me at least.
Hence why I said "I'd say Rust is pushing in the same direction of travel as modern C++"
Working inside the industry I can tell you that there are a lot of misconceptions when you look at things from the outside. Hearing aids are not so expensive because of the hardware but because of two other things: 1. customer acquisition cost and 2. service cost.

1. People do not want hearing aids (typically they do not even want to accept they have a hearing loss). You need to spend an awful lot in communication and marketing and humans you can talk to in a store to convince them to try one.

2. Hearing aids are not glasses that you put on and the problem is solved. It takes 6-12 months to get the full benefits and you need multiple visits to the store with humans to hand-hold you through the process or you will just stop wearing them.

And did I mention the average customer is 70 year old? Explain to me how a 70 year old that does not want a hearing aid will buy one online
Yeah this might be handy for small stuff but it's way too naive for anything bigger than couple pages. I recently had to scrape some pictures and meta-data from a website and while scripts like these seemed cool they really didn't scale up at all. Consider navigation, following URLs and downloading pictures all while remaining in the limits what's considered non-intrusive.

My first attempt, similar to this, failed miserably as the site employed some kind of cookie check that immediately blocked my requests by returning 403.

As mentioned in article I then moved on to Scrapy https://scrapy.org/. While seemingly a bit overkill once you create your scraper it's easy to expand and use the same scaffold on other sites too. Also it gives a lot more control on how gently you scrape and outputs nicely json/jl/csv with the data you want.

Most problems I had was with the Scrapy pipelines and getting it to output properly two json files and images. I could write a very short tutorial on my setup if I wasn't at work and otherwise busy right now.

And yes it's a bit of grey area but for my project (training a simple CNN based on the images) I think it was acceptable considering that I could have done the same thing manually (and spent less time too).
Let the hater hate. I really like the concept of the site and think there is room for this type of system in other areas. We are exploring a similar concept to this to integrate within our live tracking/timing for Sports. It is a nice way to aggregate updates with conversation.
For such a smart person, it surprises me that he seems to have missed the point of what is going on in <insert politicized debate of the day here>.

In modern Western thought, voices aren't suppressed. Instead, they are politicized and used to put the speaker on a "side". Then the people on that side will defend their side (although not always the speaker) using that person as a proxy for their side.

We see this in global warming, in nuclear power, in gender equality, in free speech rights, in gun rights, in nurture vs nature.

I can think of only two examples where something similar to the behavior called out in this article occurs in the modern West. The first is the "neural network conspiracy" where CIFAR funded research for years, until they suddenly won. The other is cold fusion, where there are persistent rumors that this wasn't perhaps the dead end it was made out to be (I don't have the expertise to evaluate that and tell if it is crackpots or not though).
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Almost all top journals are in the hands of just a few global players such as DeGruyter, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, and Oxford Journals. These companies have lured independent journals into their traps by offering free Editorial Management Systems and other help to them or buying them. They have been doing that for many decades, with the result that there are only very few independent journals run by universities themselves left.

We are trying to fight this by making our own open source journals, but it will take decades to replace to old, well-established journals if it happens at all. Until then, if you don't publish in a sizable number of firewalled/copyrighted top journals, your career will end at the postdoc level.
Finally a good point in this mini-thread.

Yes they don't do it as well. However, Safari claims to block some trackers by default which is still a win for the average consumer who won't ever fiddle with settings.

Safari allows you to use an adblocker (Firefox Focus). Chrome on Android doesn't have such settings and I suspect it won't ever have them. They plan to add adblocking but knowing Google, they'll use that feature to axe their competition, not to protect their users.

As for me, I'll just setup a VPN in my Mikrotik router and will add all widely known DNS blacklists to it (~53000 hosts). As mentioned above, I am not too keen of my devices doing 17000 ad/tracking requests a day, Android or iOS.

So yes, sadly to this day people have to jump through hoops to take back some (most?) or their privacy and not donate their internet traffic to corps who only want to farm your data.
my ears hurt from bluetooth wireless radiation :/
should have mentioned in my comment: @scihubot
ELI5: Simplistically, academics don't get paid to write papers. The most important thing they get from writing papers is peer prestige. Which they need to be employed in an academic role. The academics are paid by the institutions which hire them, from research grants, and so on. The only link with financial renumeration and the papers is that the better reputation an academic has, the the better their financial situation is.

Publishers require expensive subscriptions from academic universities to be able to read their published papers.

So actually it goes the other way around. Academics have to pay to read papers, and to write papers.

Scihub does not steal a dime from any original contributor. They actually save money from them.
That's the nature of change. It's awkward, and never smooth.

I'm one of those people who believe that eventually all consumer devices will use wireless headphones. It's not going to happen instantaneously, and the transition will be awkward, but eventually it will be complete and issues like you're talking about will be non-issues. This kind of thing has happened many times before.

Did USB stick proponents ONLY use USB sticks? What about computers that only use 3.5 inch floppy disks?
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The site returns direct pdf links only for paywalled journals. If you put in a DOI for an article that's hosted on a free-access journal, the site redirects you to the article's page on the journal, so you can download the pdf directly from them. This behavior might be the cause?
Even the earplugs you can get for around 20 protect your hearing enough with their 12dB reduction, and there are models do not noticeably change the sound. Plus: most are simply transparent plastic and hardly noticeable at all. I wear some of these for years now, and I usually keep them in my ears the whole evening once the first band started since you hardly notice them, and talking is still very much possible...
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>5. Yesterday I was trying to take a picture and opened the camera. And YES, I mean the native camera app that ships with iOS. I saw the camera UI launch, but there was no "camera". It was just a black screen. I've become accustomed to this type of lag in app loading so i waited for my camera to "boot up". It never did. The camera app was open and there were all the UI components, but it wasn't capturing anything. I have never seen anything like this before.

On iOS 10, I noticed, if I swipe the lock screen left and right really fast where it brings in the camera, it eventually gets stuck. Like half the screen is now black and nothing happens until I hit the reset button. This is reproducible. It seemed to me like a really weird little bug to have on maybe the most popular mobile OS on earth but brushed it off as me being anal about something not even Apple considers a problem. This calculator story is a bit of a waking call that Apple UX quality genuinely did get worse in recent years. It's little things that add up. It's the little annoyances with Android that keep me coming back to iOS but now it seems like they're introducing all kinds of new issues with iOS. Ugly.
Yes. Not in a car, but in other devices.

In at least one of the cases, this was because of stuff (some sort of gunk) getting into the port. Before anyone says that wasn't a problem with the port itself, having a physical port allows problems like that to happen. Problems of that sort don't exist with wireless technologies.
I would suggest that the problem is that the app stores don't properly support the free trial model.

I won't spend $10 on an app sight unseen because if it's crap or even just plain doesn't do what I need, there's no way to know that aside from trying to parse it out of the reviews that the developer probably bought from a spammer.

I will spend $10 in a heartbeat on an app that I've tried for two weeks and don't want to go back to living or working without.

But AFAICT, Apple explicitly forbids that business model in its store. Dunno whether or why Google Play apps don't use it more, tho.
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This talk of many people knowing the orthodoxy is wrong kinda reminds me of the predictability crisis as described in this HN post from a week ago [1].
Only here, people did eventually speak out against the orthodoxy and seemed to have some effect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15509347
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This points to challenges of digital information.

Stephen Hawking and his dissertation are high-profile as these things go. The NPR mentions other popular items generating 100s of requests per month. I've run across items with lifetime request counts in the double or triple digits frequently (and suspect I doubled the count on one particular item).

More often, though, the truth is that this material simply isn't available online. There are several thesis repositories (either Michigan State or University of Michigan are one, as I recall), and I can frequently turn up a shelf reference via WorldCat ... somewhere.

But there's work from surprisingly prominent names in numerous fields that simply isn't available in electronic format. The worst case is for materials from rougly 1924 - 1980: to late to be out of copyright, and too early to have been composed, or converted to, digital formats (and 1980 is an early cut-off date for that, though it's when material seems to start appearing in bulk).

This includes PhD dissertations, Masters theses, and numerous academic or other writings, often including government documents not under copyright. Thankfully with Sci-Hub, actual published academic journal articles can be found, freely, with a very high success rate. Particularly painful for me are popular magazine and newspaper items, for which even the indices are very frequently locked behind site-restricted or affiliate-only access.

The time-and-effort differential of being able to look something up online, vs. travelling many miles to a facility for access, is tremendous. And it absolutely stops a great many incidential queries dead.

See Rick Falkvinge's excellent rant about how the KRACK vulnerability was blocked behind corporate-only paywalls for over a decade:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/10/the-recen...

Note that the issues here are twofold. One element is the task of scanning and making available documents, and organising the results in a manner useful for search.

But much the harm is the direct consequence of the present regime of copyright and paid access to information, AS WELL AS the perverse incentives of advertising-backed media and media manipulation have created a media regime that is actively harmful to society.

I'd really like to see the elements of this addressed.
I regard SciHub as a useful tool for accessing research papers when I need them. The founder's political stance is irrelevant. I am a bit disappointed by her snap decision to block access to Sci-Hub from Russian IPs for the brief while that she felt offended by someone from the Russian academia, but that disappointment is only about that she allowed her personal grievances to influence the service. That hurts reliability of this instrument somewhat.