Great. BioRxiv comverts pdf to html. I hope arxiv does that too.
ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
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Re: ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
#82Good call. Surprised it’s not more given its value as (among other things) AI corpus.
Re: ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
#83Oh 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 the…
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#84Some people are angry that arXiv which is probably the most important repository of science are getting public funding because big tech companies are using it to publish their work, and they should fund that from their deep buckets. Are you aware of the consequences of what you are suggesting? If you are funding something, you have some authority over what you are funding. Directly or even indirectly (If you don't fo…
Open Source is ... open source. There is nothing wrong with chucking money at Archive to help with costs, provided that money does not come with menaces. The basic idea is that if you profit in some way from an open repository of ... something then why not contribute to it? If enough people/orgs contribute then we are all good. Otherwise, if the org behind the project is an individual doing it as a hobby and they can…
Public money indirectly comes from the most profitable companies, so it's not as bad as you suggest. I'd also say there are worse freeriders of academic research in the economy than big tech.
Re: ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Open Source is ... open source. There is nothing wrong with chucking money at Archive to help with costs, provided that money does not come with menaces. The basic idea is that if you profit in some way from an open repository of ... something then why not contribute to it? If enough people/orgs contribute then we are all good. Otherwise, if the org behind the project is an individual doing it as a hobby and they can…
Public money indirectly comes from the most profitable companies, so it's not as bad as you suggest. I'd also say there are worse freeriders of academic research in the economy than big tech.
> I'd also say there are worse freeriders of academic research in the economy than big tech
Are you talking about Elsevier, et al. How dare you?
Re: ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
#86Prediction: Arxiv has no need of this money, as it has no need of upgrades. This money will exclusively attract salesman, all of whom will offer to make arxiv worse, for money. One of them might succeed
I concur. Seriously it's job is to act as a repository of PDF files. It does that it does that well. It doesn't not need a fancy new frontend that changes again in 18 months because "circles are in" it doesn't need to move to a "distributed load balanced fault tolerant web scale platform solution" (that costs about 2x in maintenance and engineering time as it currently does).
It doesn't need to do anything of these things. It needs to serve documents and thats it. If there are problems with load they can always throw it behind a CDN since all of their contentt is largely static it fits nicely into the use case CDNs were developed to solve.
Please don't change things.
Re: ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
#87Prediction: Arxiv has no need of this money, as it has no need of upgrades. This money will exclusively attract salesman, all of whom will offer to make arxiv worse, for money. One of them might succeed
I concur. Seriously it's job is to act as a repository of PDF files. It does that it does that well. It doesn't not need a fancy new frontend that changes again in 18 months because "circles are in" it doesn't need to move to a "distributed load balanced fault tolerant web scale platform solution" (that costs about 2x in maintenance and engineering time as it currently does). It doesn't need to do anything of these t…
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#88Make the papers web-native!
They seem to be trying: > In addition, arXiv will provide substantially better access to the visually impaired by producing HTML as well as PDF versions of its content. But it's a different question whether they will succeed. A compile-to-HTML pipeline needs to work with every single LaTeX package that people use, or at least work with most ones and fail gracefully for the rest. That was hard enough for compile-to-PD…
It’s a fools errand. pdfTeX didn’t even emit spaces (as in char 32) between words until a few years ago.
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#89$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'm appalled at the perspective of middle class for you. If $500K is barely middle class, how would you classify a grad student? I suppose you were once a grad student too.
Re: ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Different disciplines began regularly posting their papers to the arXiv at different times. The order was (very) roughly High-energy theory ~1992 Other physics theory ~1994 Physics experiment ~1996 Math ~2000 CS ~2008 Some disciplines flipped nearly overnight, while others took several years of slow growth before posting to the arXiv become the default.
CS was surely earlier, it was quite widely used by 2006 in my recollection
Like I said, it's very rough since the transition happened over several year. I dunno, you can eyeball this plot; if anything I'd say it didn't become default in CS until after 2010: