Hacker News: ttybird

New comment by ttybird in "Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules"

ttybird — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 13:05:02 +0000

Does that mean that Anne Sacoolas will be extradited to the UK?

New comment by ttybird in "Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial"

ttybird — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:23:19 +0000

I thought that the first amendment was about people rather than companies. In addition to that there are many products where companies have to display certain information, such as age rating for games, health warrnings on cigaretts, food content, allergy warning, nutrition labels, medicine side-effects, etc

It is hard to classify censorship as speech for a site that it is all about user-content.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:02:30 +0000

You can, as long as you give the user the ability to replace the library. Such as by providing .o files.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:51:21 +0000

One of the "open source" licenses that it is under is LGPL, you can do whatever you want with your code. (Although this does not mean that you should, please avoid publishing closed source software)

New comment by ttybird in "Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, with correct credentials"

ttybird — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:51:45 +0000

I hate this. If I know the password I should be able to log in to my account no matter what (unless if I have 2fa enabled). Sadly companies like Google and MS do not like this idea, they also often use the excuse that they can't verify you in order to mine your phone number.

"Edit: Account recovered. I used chromium to login (which I never do) and then back to Firefox"

How can google keep getting away with this? MS got into trouble with IE with much less.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:02:30 +0000

Easier to track you.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:01:21 +0000

You are probably looking for Qt.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:49:19 +0000

"Note that any data can be transferred over HTTP(S), including, on occasion, either compiled or uncompiled LaTeX."

Sure, but I don't see what this has to do with anything.

As for your perception, I don't care :) Keep it to yourself next time please. You too are being perceived in a certain way as well but telling you how would likely be against this site's rules.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:42:17 +0000

To respond to your question: no. Not sure why you linked me the PDF 2 specification. PDF/UA is from 2012, and the ability to tag PDF files for accessibility is a thing since 2001 (with PDF 1.4).

Various tools and packages that attempted to generate accessible pdfs from LaTeX have existed for aeons, all of they had a common characteristic: they sucked. I am convinced that by this point everyone who cares about accessibility has moved to other formats (like HTML).

"HTML does not"

New comment by ttybird in "Endianness, API Design, and Polymorphism in Rust"

ttybird — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:07:34 +0000

"but our writing of numbers comes from Arabic"

Not India?

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:53:40 +0000

"e.g., ePub"

So, at the end you are going to serve html at the browser.

You can do that with web1

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:42:55 +0000

Is this why after all these years there is STILL no sane way to make accessible pdfs from LaTeX?

LaTeX is almost never semantic. People are encountered to think only about the document presentation (mostly due to LaTeX's own failures).

As for footnotes being "first class". It's just a macro, nothing first-class about that when compared to HTML's solution.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:34:53 +0000

I talked about the compilation aspect at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29372937 In addition to that there are various checkers for html.

There is lua-based LaTeX and js-based pdf. Just use html without JS.

"The fact that it's often preferable to rerender an HTML document as PDF, simply for readability, let alone archival, should speak volumes."

The fact that it's always preferable to export a LaTeX document as pdf...

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:25:25 +0000

Username checks out? Are people who compile markdown, org (or even LaTeX) via pandoc into html somehow "garbage coders"?

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:22:34 +0000

Don't make assumptions about me. A LaTeX document is also virtually never directly consumed by web browsers. In addition to that we are considering LaTeX for the web, not DVI, not PDF, not something else that you compile LaTeX into.

And well, given the amount of people that use overleaf I would say that a lot of people (although writers instead of readers) consume LaTeX.

(Btw, you can compile html too, try printing it as ps/pdf document)

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:57:45 +0000

"must"? A web4 browser would probably use a "runtime compiled" implementation.

"Whilst that may still pass poorly-structured documents and result in poorly-formed output" - this by the way happens much more often with LaTeX compared to html in my experience.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:54:14 +0000

Nor a "first-class" TeX element either. \footnote is just a macro.

New comment by ttybird in "Web4 Should Run on LaTeX"

ttybird — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:50:16 +0000

I honestly don't see any advantage to LaTeX over html+svg+css+mathml+??? for any usecase. Everything that LaTeX does the things that I mentioned do better.

New comment by ttybird in "Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court"

ttybird — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 05:52:53 +0000

Oh, fair enough. Still though, they should be able to sue them if Apple can sue NSO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29320986

New comment by ttybird in "GoDaddy Breach Widens"

ttybird — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 05:45:35 +0000

I don't really see the issue. It's not like some sort of deadly sin. If the users re-use passwords then that's on them.