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Northwestern University's press-release (which one can find repeated verbatim across the web e.g. at phys.org) points at an open access (CC:BY) Astrophysical Jo

Northwestern University's press-release (which one can find repeated verbatim across the web e.g. at phys.org) points at an open access (CC:BY) Astrophysical Journal page <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace051 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace051>. Unfortunately IOP (the official online home for ApJ) occasionally has fits of "I'm really not sure you're a human, let's loop around until you get bored" that may affect HN readers in particular. The corresponding preprint, Kaaz, Liska et al. 2022, "Nozzle Shocks, Disk Tearing and Streamers Drive Rapiod Accretion in 3D GRMHD Simulations of Warped Thin Disks" can be found at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10053 https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10053>. Each version is about fifteen pages including a substantial references section and many graphs and graphical depictions. As several early commenters here have focused on the GR-MHD (general relativitistic magnetohydrodynamics) simulation basis, the second author is a well-known computational astrophysicist and leader of the software collaboration used in this paper and his site may be of interest: https://www.matthewliska.com/ https://www.matthewliska.com/

38 3y ago
> Unfortunately IOP (the official online home for ApJ) occasionally has fits of "I'm really not sure you're a human, let's loop around until you get bored" I have my privacy turned up somewhat (uBlock Origin with custom rules), and I didn't notice any issue. I see that its calling out to CloudFront and Google, can you detail what the possible issue is?
- raattgift 3y ago
  > can you detail what the possible issue is? Why? Are you in a position to help everyone? (As you probably guessed while reading the comment you replied to, I don't really need help; more on that below). "Occasional" is not universal; as you aren't getting the problem in a here-and-now sense you can probably play around with the "here" part by using Tor Browser to see if you can get to the article via the link in the fine press release from northwestern. Many times Tor (say if one wants to be sure one is not transmitting some credential to the publisher) works fine, sometimes you'll have to start a new Tor circuit (or maybe be more patient than me). Likewise, with uBlockOrigin on medium mode <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...> sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I waver between wondering if it's caching (seems to be more frequent on "cold" papers hosted at iop.org, during a trawl of a paper's references), sometimes location (in the IP range sense), sometimes defences triggered by "hug-of-death" on a very fresh paper. When it happens it's usually very easy to find the preprint and start with that, so I haven't been minded to pursue anything like formal process with anyone's IT department. To be clear, IOP is pretty good by learned society standards, and even the worst of those is much less annoying to use (and less likely to have annoying glitches) than by major for-profit academic publishers, even (sometimes especially) when the paper is open access. For that last set, for cold papers, one is more than tempted to start with sci-hub for the latter's greater reliability and better user interface. And of course, there's also https://unpaywall.org/ https://unpaywall.org/ which is also tremendously useful.
  - 38 3y ago
    > Tor Browser OK > uBlockOrigin on medium mode <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...> I am already using that with no issues, but as you said it could come and go.

38 3y ago

> Unfortunately IOP (the official online home for ApJ) occasionally has fits of "I'm really not sure you're a human, let's loop around until you get bored" I have my privacy turned up somewhat (uBlock Origin with custom rules), and I didn't notice any issue. I see that its calling out to CloudFront and Google, can you detail what the possible issue is?

raattgift 3y ago
> can you detail what the possible issue is? Why? Are you in a position to help everyone? (As you probably guessed while reading the comment you replied to, I don't really need help; more on that below). "Occasional" is not universal; as you aren't getting the problem in a here-and-now sense you can probably play around with the "here" part by using Tor Browser to see if you can get to the article via the link in the fine press release from northwestern. Many times Tor (say if one wants to be sure one is not transmitting some credential to the publisher) works fine, sometimes you'll have to start a new Tor circuit (or maybe be more patient than me). Likewise, with uBlockOrigin on medium mode <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...> sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I waver between wondering if it's caching (seems to be more frequent on "cold" papers hosted at iop.org, during a trawl of a paper's references), sometimes location (in the IP range sense), sometimes defences triggered by "hug-of-death" on a very fresh paper. When it happens it's usually very easy to find the preprint and start with that, so I haven't been minded to pursue anything like formal process with anyone's IT department. To be clear, IOP is pretty good by learned society standards, and even the worst of those is much less annoying to use (and less likely to have annoying glitches) than by major for-profit academic publishers, even (sometimes especially) when the paper is open access. For that last set, for cold papers, one is more than tempted to start with sci-hub for the latter's greater reliability and better user interface. And of course, there's also https://unpaywall.org/ https://unpaywall.org/ which is also tremendously useful.
- 38 3y ago
  > Tor Browser OK > uBlockOrigin on medium mode <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...> I am already using that with no issues, but as you said it could come and go.