$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
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#12> migrate to the cloud Oh great, looking forward to a captcha every time I download a paper. (FWIW, arXiv is one place I trust not to make such stupid decisions, but migrating to a cloud often means the decisions are no longer made in-house...)
It's possible that they jump straight to the hybrid solution that many companies now make. Like migrating to the cloud could be just to have backups of papers in s3 with failures to download them initially then pass through to the s3 location seamlessly. It could also be trying to rewrite everything to run on lambda. My point being that migrating to the cloud means different things to different companies/groups.
That'd be good.
Re: ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
#13$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
ESG crowd?
This would fund a team of 10 for four years + operating costs for active development for commodity cloud targets. This isn't a ton of cash.
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#14$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
Eh, inflation has happened, and taxes, medical bills, and real estate are insane these days. So much so that you can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary. (At normal "middle class" modest levels of life hat's $250K after taxes, $200K after medical expenses, $150K after rent, $100K after food, $50K after transportation, $25K after food ...)
Sounds outrageous but most people have been brainwashed into thinking living with roommates in a cramped flat full of mildew, giving up all dreams of owning a home, and driving an old, unsafe car is the new norm.
Given that, $10M isn't really that much, considering you need to hire software devs to do any of the work they propose, and those software devs are getting $500K+ offers everywhere else.
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#15Oh that’s great to hear! I really like arXiv and am glad it’s getting more funding! I hope this will enable arXiv to fix some of the long-time issues it has, including the way identity and attribution are handled.
For example: the current system assumes people’s names do not change [1], which in particular negatively affects trans authors. This seems like it could be fixed if they had the bandwidth to, and I hope they will.
[1]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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#16$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
Eh, inflation has happened, and taxes, medical bills, and real estate are insane these days. So much so that you can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary. (At normal "middle class" modest levels of life hat's $250K after taxes, $200K after medical expenses, $150K after rent, $100K after food, $50K after transportation, $25K after food ...) Sounds outrageous but most…
This needs to be turned into a tshirt print:
You can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary.
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#17Why is this eating up NSF money / taxpayer money?! Megacaps like Google and Facebook are reaping tons of value from arXiv, i.e. (1) easy access to non-industry peer attention through a respected pre-print publisher, (2) major incentive to their employees and key component to performance review cycle, ... Google itself has out-published most universities in conferences like NeurIPS for the past few years. For Google a…
Seems a reasonable use of NSF money to me, to promote sciences by creating a common infrastructure for organizing the world's library of preprints. It's infrastructure of a sorts, and civil government is the ideal party to fund civil infrastructure. (Isn't it?) Not random FAANG's, and I don't see why they'd want to anyway—what they'd get out of it.
FAANG's aren't charities; anything they do that looks philanthropic is some kind of trap.
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#18$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
> that kind of money invites the ESG crowd
what does that mean?
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#19$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
Eh, inflation has happened, and taxes, medical bills, and real estate are insane these days. So much so that you can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary. (At normal "middle class" modest levels of life hat's $250K after taxes, $200K after medical expenses, $150K after rent, $100K after food, $50K after transportation, $25K after food ...) Sounds outrageous but most…
I found it truly incredulous that you are trying to defend the position that $500k a year salary is middle class.
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#20$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
> that kind of money invites the ESG crowd what does that mean?