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Will Google have a reason to do that though? Won’t they just leave the contractors to fend for themselves?

If they are doing this well, why are they trying to get rid of a bunch of employees?

Has pure HTML (no css, no javascript) ever had a serious security issue? On the server side obviously not (outside of the apache/nginx/etc. having application bugs), but even on the client side has there ever been an exploit?

One of the original ideas behind Markdown was that a document should remain readable even before a computer interprets its formatting.

The author states this towards the beginning of the article. This is possible everywhere you can easily open a txt file. Note, there are quite a few platforms that don’t like to make it easily possible to open text files.

Then later, he goes on to say that opening it should interpret the formatting as well. This is neither the original premise of Markdown, nor is it easily doable. Namely, there are a number of different markdown ‘specs’: Github-flavored, Commonmark, etc. On top of that, Markdown is (mostly) a superset of html syntax. Technically any html is valid markdown formatting.

Thus, in order to ‘simply’ render the formatting of Markdown, you first need information on what type of markdown, and then also be running a fairly complex parsing+rendering pipeline.

Not to mention that you are doing all that for a document format that the non-tech/average user has never even heard of probably. This is the same reason why syntax highlighting (beyond Regex/Treesitter) isn’t part of most text editors.

Is there a way to access this without having to pay for/have an account?

This article reads so superficially. I would have hoped that a university would put a bit more of the actual mass of the research into their article about it.

Considering that the main argument is that supply chains are difficult, I don’t see how, for example, the US could confirm that China is no longer internally producing these AI training chips or vice versa. Aren’t the supply chains in different countries somewhat disjoint?

The only thing I would add to this is that (in my understanding) Nvidia is largely selling future GPU manufacturing capacity to the large AI providers. So, if the providers end up going belly up, thrn Nvidia might take heftly losses from that as well.