The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

Posted by lumpa 10/27/2025

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program(simonwillison.net)

239 points | 9 comments

arccy 10/27/2025|

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

dang 10/27/2025||

Thanks, we've moved the comments thither.

whooooosh 10/27/2025||

More like 'related'.

That's a statement from the PSF.

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

dang 10/27/2025||

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(We'll put a link to https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal...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 10/28/2025|||

That decision makes sense to me!

whooooosh 10/27/2025|||

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dang 10/28/2025||

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 10/28/2025||

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 10/28/2025||

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