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Why do you need $10M to host some PDFs?
Being HN someone needed to make that comment. All tech companies can be reduced to “serving some bits and bytes”
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Really? I found Chrome being much faster than Adobe Acrobat. Either way, the speed of rendering never bothered me.
SumatraPDF on Windows is lightning fast with the kind of PDFs you get from the arXiv (true PDFs without heavy graphics). I don't know what is fast on Linux, but probably some MuPDF-based viewers are (the MuPDF PoC viewer is fast even on WSL).
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You might want to check out this site: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/ I wish they would integrate something like that directly.
They have https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/ in beta which has similar functionality.
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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: https://info.arxiv.org/help/stats/2021_by_area/index.html
Thank you for linking that! Do you happen to know what "eess" is?
or this taxonomy page (which annoyingly has to be clicked at each level, but is maybe easier to read)
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Employees payroll and income taxes come before margin?
I guess you're referring to my specification of low-margin. As I also specified SME, what that means is both low-margin and low-revenue. And the true intented meaning is that all cash flows one might want to tax (mostly with progressive rates) are small.
rates become high fast enough for employees of sme to start paying substantial taxes, and payroll taxes don't have progressive rates, and ss is actually regressive tax.
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Thank you for linking that! Do you happen to know what "eess" is?
Electrical engineering and systems science. You can find all the abbreviations on the home page (which is easy to ctrl-f for) https://arxiv.org/ or this taxonomy page (which annoyingly has to be clicked at each level, but is maybe easier to read) https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy
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There is no good way to deal with name changes. You can change them in the metadata, but the old ones will still be around in the paper itself. You can let authors change them in the paper, but the old ones will still be around in others' bibliographies. You can't do much about the bibliographies, since (1) you'd need an automated way to find them all and disambiguate them (have fun with Chinese names) and (2) a lot…
For disambiguation there's ORCID, and for the citation there is nowadays the DOI to identify the paper. So long as you can update whatever the DOI points out with a note it seems like this is handled?
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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…
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.
I'd consider "being able to save enough to continue a modest quality of life for retirement" a normal feature of what describes middle class life.
If you are living paycheck-to-paycheck you'll suffer when you hit old age or have a disabling condition that prevents you from working.
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Most people pay more than they think they pay. For example they think they pay 2K/mo in rent but that easily blows up to 4K after hidden costs that aren't on the sticker price of the lease. Utilities, utilities of others that landlord charges to you because the lease said they could (and so does every other lease in a 100 mile radius), maintainence and safety issues that landlord doesn't cover, moving costs averaged…
> Utilities My landlord charges me $60/month for water/sewer. I pay about $120 for electric and gas combined most months. This is in an area of the country where it gets above 100F in the summer and can easily dip below 15F in the winter. > moving costs Stop moving so much? I know very few middle class people that would pay a moving company. Renting a truck and loading it yourself, or using one of the several pod typ…
Sure but
> Again with the mold. We're not all breathing in mold, okay? Paying $50/month for "mold" makes no sense. How much bleach are you buying with that? It sounds like you have a water leak.
Why do you think I moved?
> We rent a truck or a pod thing and ask nicely for our family and friends to help load the coaches.
That works in the outback but where I live friends don't ask friends to move. Many of my friends have kids and are overworked, nobody has time.
> pod thing
My new property manager banned pods
> We rent a truck
Yep, I did this. Rented a U-Haul 3 times over 3 weekends. Wasn't cheap, AND tiring. I moved most of my own stuff, and it cost me close to $600 for everything, including the U-Hauls, the Uber rides to/from U-Haul, etc. And then another $400 for a couple guys to move a couple furniture items I couldn't move on my own.