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$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.
I am really glad arXiv is getting more funding. It is an essential resource. For me personally, it’ll be really interesting to see if the frontend changes. No doubt there are some important improvements that can be made (a website can always be made more accessible, moderation tools, support for name changes as mentioned, etc.) However, to first approximation, arXiV’s website already seems almost like a platonic idea…
Simple HTML, loads fast, has the information and features you need but otherwise gets out of your way Exactly. I'll be furious if it turns into another trendchasing JS-required SPA. By all means use the funds to pay for additional bandwidth or storage, but don't waste it on useless hostile UI changes.
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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.
> Public money indirectly comes from the most profitable companies (In the U.S.) Corporations only account for 6% of federal tax revenue ( https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/us-tax-revenue-by... ). And probably the most profitable companies are the ones that are the best at skirting corporate tax law...
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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…
> 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 ...) 99% of the country doesn't pay $50K per year in rent. Nor $50K per year in food. Nor $50K per year in transportation. Nor an additional $25K per year in food.
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Browsers are painfully slow at rendering PDF. Open them with your local reader.
Really? I found Chrome being much faster than Adobe Acrobat. Either way, the speed of rendering never bothered me.
Oh 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…
You must not change history. You can use a new name, but that should be considered a new and separate identity.
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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.
Advertisements masquerading as science ~2016 (2023 for sure)