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Honestly If i had to guess, I'd say the answer is as simple as: a freely distributable, easily verifiable document was needed for testing purposes, and some eng
by krsdcbl 4y ago
Honestly If i had to guess, I'd say the answer is as simple as: a freely distributable, easily verifiable document was needed for testing purposes, and some engineer thought it'd be a cheeky little easter egg to use that file as bitcoin was starting to gain back traction in 2019 after it's first big surge and fall the years prior.
- duxup 4y agoYeah my collection of test docs are pretty random, albeit often Futurama related.
- crazygringo 4y agoYup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.
- ChickeNES 4y agoHow about "Attention Is All You Need"?
- btown 4y agoQuick, get your own copy before Apple takes them all to put them in the next version of the Mac! https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
- lexandstuff 4y agoThat is exactly what came to mind for me.
- dullcrisp 4y agoThe Bitcoin whitepaper was the “Attention Is All You Need” of 2019.
- chucknthem 4y ago2009*
- detrites 4y agoThat's when it was released but it was not widely-known until years later. So maybe you're both kind of correct.
- serf 4y agorelease date has a concrete date to refer to, 'widely-known' does not.
- lazyasciiart 4y ago2018 is when someone was looking for a pdf and found this one, which is probably what they were referring to?
- slim 4y agowtf, I remember using bitcoin back 1999, and now wikipedia says it began in 2009
- darrenf 4y agoI mean, it's not just wikipedia - the genesis block itself contained a news headline from 2009. So whatever it is you remember, it is not using bitcoin in 1999. > The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block
- aidenn0 4y ago"Digital Cash" was a big buzzword prior to the dot-com crash, but Bitcoin was definitely started later.
- jollyllama 4y agoMight be egold or ecash
- asdff 4y agoWhat about the famous "Lorem Ipsum"?
- overthrow 4y agoWhat is the MD5 checksum of the canonical version of the famous Lorem Ipsum PDF?
- asdff 4y agoAsk Apple, I'd guess they'd use the one that they used to hide in their skeumorphic application icons.
- giantrobot 4y agoTextEdit's icon used to have a copy of "Here's to the Crazy Ones" letter/poem/whatever. It was barely legible in the days of 256px icons but was extremely legible in the 512px version. I forget when it was first added, IIRC early versions of the icon used Lorem Ipsum text.
- tzs 4y ago"Lorem Ipsum" completely confused me the first time I ran into it. I was trying to make a document for work, using Apple Pages for the first time. Pages had a template that seemed good for the kind of document I had to make so I used that. The template included "Lorem Ipsum" text. But since I hadn't heard of it before I thought it was some sort of sample document showing how to use the template but in a language I didn't recognize. I figured that I'd somehow gotten Pages configured to default to a foreign language and spent the next couple of hours trying to figure out how to set it to English. Eventually it occurred to me to search for some of the exact text from the template, hoping to find someone else had already dealt with this problem, and found the Wikipedia article that explained what "Lorem Ipsum" is.
- kmeisthax 4y ago"Why is my website in Spanish? I thought it was supposed to be in English!"
- bbertelsen 4y agoI can't think of a PDF but there are images like this. "Lenna". There are also really famous datasets that are used for examples in similar ways (iris).
- paulmd 4y agoLenna is copyright-encumbered (despite its widespread use, Apple is a commercial operator and can't do that sort of thing) and it's not very inclusive to use a playboy centerfold image (even cropped) and it's taking some heat on the sexism front these days.
- drjasonharrison 4y agoThe "Lenna" is also low dynamic range, low resolution (512x512), low chromatic range, does not have a color profile, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna "In today’s age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".[2]
- simondotau 4y agoI’d be willing to bet that there have been significantly more viewings of that image this century as a result of the documentary. What a ridiculous way to try to end cultural awareness of a meme. And I’m sorry but I just can’t fathom the controversy. The cropped version is the only one I’ve ever seen used in the context of a sample image. It is utterly unremarkable unless you’re aware of the image’s provenance, (which I bet most people didn’t). Even the uncropped version, which I have only ever saw because of the controversy, isn’t any more racy than many historically important paintings hanging in art galleries. I’m not saying this is an appropriate canonical test image. But I am saying that it’s disingenuous to single it out as a problem. There is so much of mainstream culture that is orders of magnitude more degrading of women than this image. I am certainly not equating the two, but I do see parallels in the hysterics around “Lenna” and hysterics around David of Michelangelo’s little noodle.
- humanistbot 4y agoAlan Turing's 1950 article in Mind proposing the Turing Test (Computing Machinery and Intelligence) IRS Tax Form 1040 The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence The Treaty of Versailles The Paris Treaty The Kyoto Protocol The Bible, King James Version Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther's 95 Theses The Communist Manifesto
- eunoia 4y ago“R.I.P Good Times” might work for this particular community too.
- paconbork 4y agoI'd suggest "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work" but that might be a bit too on the nose
- pcwalton 4y agoFor a long time Form 1040 was the top Google result for "pdf".
- snotrockets 4y agoAnd being produced by the federal government, unencumbered by copyright.
- robocat 4y agoIt wouldn’t surprise me if you couldn’t distribute the form globally due to US export restrictions to Iran, NK, etcetera. Obviously not a problem for Apple since it is already restricted/tainted.
- snotrockets 4y agoIt's in the public domain, so the limits are not on the content itself. The media, and the facilitation of the transfer might be limited, but this is a question for the legal department, which I'm not part of.
- bombcar 4y agoBut changes every year.
- snotrockets 4y agoIf you're not using for it intended purpose, do you actually care which version of the form you use?
- jalbertoni 4y agoOlder versions might be difficult to get in the future, difficulty reproducing results due to that, yadda yadda. It works for most cases, but I can see why changing every year might be a deal breaker for some.
- grimgrin 4y agoI can think of nothing more important and famous than chicken.pdf https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
- coolandsmartrr 4y agoContext please?
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- lamontcg 4y agochicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
- eddyg 4y agoI would’ve went with Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash” (converted to PDF via a faithful rendition of the original open letter, assuming it wasn’t available as a PDF originally.)
- culi 4y agoHow about "GOTO Statement Considered Harmful" http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/lehre/programmiersprachen/artikel/EWD-goto-harmful.PDF http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/lehre/programmiers...
- deepsun 4y agoThe resource is password-protected.
- foooorsyth 4y agoI would take Ken Thompson’s “Trusting Trust” over Djikstra’s “GOTO”. Djikstra’s “GOTO” is a rare lowlight, but as Torvalds said, we don’t speak ill of the dead.
- mehlmao 4y agoI've used the sheet music for 'Still Alive' from Portal whenever I need a test PDF. The original blog post linking to it is gone, but Valve has kept it up on their CDN: https://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/public/images/whatsnew/StillAlive.pdf https://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/public/images/whatsnew/Sti...
- culi 4y agoThis is fun. I needed a test with many different sized PDFs. Originally I tried project gutenberg but it didn't have the variety I wanted. I ended up going to the Anarchist Library which checked all the boxes w.r.t. file size variety and ease of download (as well as minimizing fear of downloading copyrighted material on a work computer)
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> the sheet music for 'Still Alive' Dang. That's just an arrangement for voice and one guitar (or ukulele?). The song pretty clearly includes accompaniment from a cymbal and some kind of metallic pitched percussion too.
- cozzyd 4y agohttps://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
- _8j50 4y agoReally!? "Smashing the stack for fun and profit" by aleph1??
- b33j0r 4y agoA TPS report, but I guess that would only work if there were many distributed copies.
- ornornor 4y agoI typically use “on trusting trust”
- dale_glass 4y agoYup. A while back we figured that the system we work on technically allows loading nigh anything as a texture, including stuff like SVG and PDF. So we also ended up with a bitcoin whitepaper textured surface used as a test, even though the actual project formed in part around opposition to cryptocurrency. The darn thing is just that famous.
- pinebox 4y agoThere are probably some important Apple patents that would have been good candidates for this use case.
- sicariusnoctis 4y agoPerhaps the ResNet paper, which has the most citations of all time.
- Suzuran 4y agoChicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken
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- paxys 4y ago> freely distributable Is it though? The whitepaper wasn't released with any license. The original author still holds the copyright. I'm going to guess someone from Apple's legal team is pretty pissed right about now.
- pstrateman 4y agoIt was released with the original bitcoin release under the MIT license.
- walrus01 4y agoAs the identity of "Satoshi Nakamoto" is extremely unclear, the only way that the real satoshi could identify themselves now is by moving a bitcoin out of one of the very early wallets, which nobody has been able to do. The australian guy named Craig Wright claiming to be Satoshi was clearly a fraud. How would a person showing up claiming to be Satoshi enforce copyright on this if they can't prove they're the original author?
- gst 4y ago"Faketoshi" already tried that in the past and was successful in the UK due to a default judgement: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/06/29/uk-court-orders-bitcoinorg-to-remove-white-paper-following-craig-wright-lawsuit/ https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/06/29/uk-court-orders-...
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoThat was sad to see. The justice system is broken, with enough money you can make a mockery of it. The guy has filed so many lawsuits and sometimes they do go to trial. He's sued Bitcoin devs to change BTC Core code to unlock "his" lost Bitcoins that he says he doesn't have the keys to anymore. This was not admitted in the past but then his lawyers found a gullible British judge and they actually heard the case - although he ultimately lost. He's also tried to sue Coinbase and Kraken for violating his supposed IP. Then he sued Peter McCormack for calling him a liar and "a moron". Although the court noted there's no evidence that he is Satoshi, the court still awared him £1 for his tarnished reputation. He's fabricated a story and lies to the entire world, then sues anyone who calls him out.
- blatant303 4y agoI've been telling myself I missed the opportunity window in 2012
- tinus_hn 4y agoI would have expected a pdf showing the ‘Here’s to the crazy ones’ poem that’s also in the old TextEdit icon.