Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS (opens in new tab)

Start from the objective of first do no harm. Voting systems may eventually be gamed to distort results, so eliminate the voting system. Instead rely on ad-hoc personal networks to disseminate signal about quality papers out-of-band. Don’t assume you have to systematize everything.

Voting (as was bore out in many examples including digg.com and elsewhere) becomes a mob rule situation and variation of tyranny of the commons without a novelty algorithm in addition to total votes. If you just go by totals, it will be easily gamified and rendered useless as a metric.

The standard and most effective form of curation in science is the reference list at the end of a paper.

But usually you just read everything that is relevant to your research interests from the daily arxiv posting.

Actually I don't think science has democratic nature. Yes we do somehow do that as a theory would still need to be accepted widely. But in reality one person can have the correct idea while all others disagree. Still this person is doing it right.

Using Wikipedia as an example of a seemingly naïve idea that was ultimately proven to work is a pretty bad argument that completely ignores how Wikipedia operates at the moment.

It's routinely used for propagating smears:

https://odysee.com/@AlisonMorrow:6/how-wikipedia-decides-if-...

Even one of its co-founders says it's failing as an accurate source of information:

https://odysee.com/@TimcastIRL:8/former-founder-of-wikipedia...

Just like Jaron Lanier predicted in 2006:

https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-digital-maois...

I never understood why so many technologists vehemently defend a website that was obviously prone to a form of "regulatory capture" and groupthink.

Why do you need a blockchain to implement Skynet?

"Pin up to 100GB at no cost" (https://account.siasky.net/payments)

Wait, is that a typo?? That seems incredibly generous. I guess that's where decentralization comes in.

Does it also mean that if for some reason the network comes down, the files all come down as well?

Do you have any documentation that compares Skynet to IPFS anywhere? From an architectural standpoint and/or features.

Are you able to “pin” files yourself like IPFS? Or are you required to pay hosts to store it?

Great question! Search is (I believe) a second-order problem. Once permissionless publishing is solved, extensions can be built onto the core protocol.

In my opinion, indexing and ranking services work much better as ancillary services. The bundling of indexing and ranking with core protocol features is one of my main contentions with the Coinbase-backed "Research Hub" project/company (https://researchhub.org).

If you think about it, journals are important services, but they serve two functions right now:

1. Publication/information & data storage

2. Information indexing and ranking

Really, I think the whole contention about open/closed science is directed in the wrong place. Journals shouldn't be hosting information! They should be indexing and ranking information.

The information should be stored on an open, decentralized substrate where no one needs to go through authentication steps to view it. Then, journals can maintain their closed/open persuasions and offer bundled services and discovery and maintain their clout without really needing to change their core offering.

Also, the git repo link needs to be updated, and there's nothing there right now really, but https://github.com/scipubapp is the right link!

Great question! Search is (I believe) a second-order problem. Once permissionless publishing is solved, extensions can be built onto the core protocol.

In my opinion, indexing and ranking services work much better as ancillary services. The bundling of indexing and ranking with core protocol features is one of my main contentions with the Coinbase-backed "Research Hub" project/company (https://researchhub.org).

If you think about it, journals are also important services

Also, git repo link needs to be updated, and there's nothing there right now really, but https://github.com/scipubapp is the right link!

For sure! Will do.

FWIW, archiving repo2docker-compatible git repos with a DOI attached to a git tag, is possible with JupyterLite:

> JupyterLite is a JupyterLab distribution that runs entirely in the browser built from the ground-up using JupyterLab components and extensions

With JupyterLite, you can build a static archive of a repo2docker-like environment so that the ScholarlyArticle notebook or computer modern latex css, its SoftwareRelease dependencies, and possibly also the Datasets can be run in a browser tab with WASM. HTML + JS + WASM

Well, as anyone can and will publish, it will be stuffed with junk, porn, trash of all sorts, so my plan was to implement a filter to ignore any data published outside of one’s WOT.

Furthermore, a user searching for “reviewed” data and papers would normally filter for items with enough “endorsement” metadata items signed by known WOT actors.

I haven’t figured a mechanism to prevent “review rings”, although being totally transparent it should be easy to spot them.

that's fine. Maybe then for a better user experience have grey-out or removed the IPFS download button for the articles that haven't been uploaded yet.

What was the 750GeV debacle? That thing were some people said LHC had found a new particle maybe?

is search still a WIP?

I wonder how much information do you get from arxiv regarding the dependency graph via citations. Could there be a way that I, as I upload my own manuscript, to tip the authors of the people I citated and conversely someday have the possibility of also generating revenue personally as such? It would be much nicer, I think, if the fees that are currently paid to journals to instead go to the authors that also contributed to my work.