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TLDR Norway’s recent wealth-tax increases caused some very rich people to leave, but the “billionaire exodus” was economically much smaller than the headlines suggested—and the tax still raised a lot more revenue without detectable damage to business investment.

Curious why the setup had 3 different LLMs?

One thing I don’t get: the study excludes the first 6 months after vaccination to avoid immortal-time bias. But if people died right away due to the vaccine (hypothetically), wouldn’t this design exclude those deaths?

This was really amazing, thank you for making this.

This article feels AI-generated

This new solar thermoelectric generator (STEG) traps heat on one side and cools the other, making electricity from the hot-cold gap via the Seebeck effect. Unlike solar panels, which need direct sunlight, STEGs can use ambient heat and scattered light. That’s why they still work in shaded or cloudy areas—any temperature difference can generate power. Today they’re only ~1% efficient (vs. ~20% for solar), but the new design is 15× better than earlier STEGs. They won’t beat solar panels yet, but could be useful in spots where panels underperform.

Tldr “ bright purple light suggests the phosphor layer around the lights has been “delaminated”—peeled off—exposing the blue LED light underneath, Brgoch says. Although blue LED lights are, in principle, deep blue in color”

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“The radio waves that we detected were at really steep angles, like 30 degrees below the surface of the ice,” said Stephanie Wissel, associate professor of physics, astronomy and astrophysics who worked on the ANITA team searching for signals from elusive particles called neutrinos.

“My guess is that some interesting radio propagation effect occurs near ice and also near the horizon that I don't fully understand, but we certainly explored several of those, and we haven't been able to find any of those yet either,” Wissel said. “So, right now, it's one of these long-standing mysteries, and I'm excited that when we fly PUEO, we'll have better sensitivity. In principle, we should pick up more anomalies, and maybe we'll actually understand what they are. We also might detect neutrinos, which would in some ways be a lot more exciting.”

Thanks for open sourcing it!

How is this test at all related to the skills required in this job?

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176955

The point of this article is that as a B+ student, you can get into a globally competitive university for free. Financial aid at a competitive college in the US is available to students at A- or above.

I wonder how long this has been there.

Congrats Otavio and team!

Mobile advertising is getting pretty competitive - MoPub's reports offer pretty solid evidence: http://www.mopub.com/2013/10/07/mopub-quarterly-advertising-...

Advertisers are somewhat familiar with this format because it's so similar to Facebook's format.

Having to show results to your fellow founders every week at your in-person meeting is extremely motivating. Doing everything via Google Hangouts doesn't allow for the sort of serendipitous encounters that happen at the weekly meetings. Investors come to Demo Day not just to see the newest batch of companies, but also to meet with others.

I'm skeptical that this would work.

Where in the code is the eval() is performed? There is not a single call to eval() in that source.

Maybe a listing of the Wi() function would be useful.

I wonder if this is something that Google and Co. will also be allowed to do?

The headline for that row implies that they're talking about one selected founder of the company.

How much does one of these plants cost? It's said that they're astronomically expensive, but I haven't seen a dollar amount for building one.

Things may not be as bad as they seem.

Don't worry about the investor's money - it's called venture capital for a reason.

You've probably learned a tremendous amount from the experience.

Think about what the next step for you is after this company. Sounds like you're a developer and can easily get a well-paying job. Sounds like there is still some money left and you can take some time and decompress from the experience.

This isn't doom. It's the first step of what you're doing next.

It's a way to add two-factor authentication to your website or app. Instead of having people log in with just username and password, they'll also have to enter a code. They get the code from the Authy app on their phone.

(PS I'm not affiliated with Authy, just trying to be helpful.)

Yes you can, but that opens a different app and takes you away from Safari and its browsing history.

Thanks for seeing the value in my (somewhat avantgarde) argument.

I'd be happy with the app availability indicator as well. The native app would still remain within the confines of the browser, so that you could easily navigate away. People don't install apps today because it takes time to download them, and the browsing experience is interrupted by switching to a different app.

Most publishers that have terrible apps also have terrible sites. Apps that get very little usage today are hardly going to get better if users don't start using them. Building an easier onramp for apps is going to increase app usage and cause publishers to build better apps.

Both iOS and Android allow apps interacting with each other. iOS has URL schemes, Android has Intents which are obviously far more elegant. There are tricks you can play to have apps intercept web page visits on Android [1], but other than that, web apps are disconnected from native apps.

[1] Intent Filters: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Inten...

Allowing apps to access browser cookies is a solution to the problem that apps and websites are disconnected and don't know about each other's state. That's a different aspect than the one you're talking about.

Yes, you can build responsive sites, but what you can do in the browser is limited, especially when it comes to flaky connections that are still very typical. To take the example in the post a little bit further: Imagine you're on the train and are reading a multi-page New York Times article. Train goes into a tunnel. Trying to load the next page will result in a connection error. Native apps can know about your network state and can pre-cache content you're about to read next.

Running a compiled app instead of a web page, as laid out in the post, would have that benefit.

The central theme of the post is that the local app and the webpage are disconnected - the fact that you can't pick up where you left off in the other is not a development choice.

Excellent point. Corrected and added [3].

Thanks pflats for pointing this out. I changed the post and added a note with a link to this comment.