The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

Posted by lumpa 1 day ago

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program(simonwillison.net)

238 points | 9 comments

arccy 1 day ago|

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721904

dang 1 day ago||

Thanks, we've moved the comments thither.

whooooosh 1 day ago||

More like 'related'.

That's a statement from the PSF.

This is a personal blog post of one of its board members.

dang 1 day ago||

That's right, but the test we use is "are two articles different enough to support a substantively different discussion". In this case the answer is clearly no, so they fall in the same equivalence class.

(We'll put a link to https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal... in the toptext of the other post though)

simonw 1 day ago|||

That decision makes sense to me!

whooooosh 1 day ago|||

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dang 1 day ago||

We do that all the time, of course—just not enough to satisfy those who would like (a lot) more. But we have the rest of the community to think about as well.

Lerc 20 hours ago||

Do you have any data on what tends to get inappropriately flagged?

I'm not sure if it would be productive to share such information, but can't help being curious about it.

dang 12 hours ago||

I can't really answer that because it's not clear what "inappropriately" means. Everyone seems to have a different definition!