Fix footnote

README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 ![pytest](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/actions/workflows/pytest.yml/badge.svg)
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/skypilot/badge/?version=latest)](https://skypilot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 
-SkyPilot is a framework for easily running machine learning<sup id="r1">[\[1\]](#footnote1)</sup> workloads on any cloud through a unified interface. No knowledge of cloud offerings is required or expected – you simply define the workload and its resource requirements, and SkyPilot will automatically execute it on AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
+SkyPilot is a framework for easily running machine learning[^1] workloads on any cloud through a unified interface. No knowledge of cloud offerings is required or expected – you simply define the workload and its resource requirements, and SkyPilot will automatically execute it on AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
+
 
 ### Key features
 * **Run existing projects on the cloud** with zero code changes
@@ -74,10 +75,5 @@ We are excited to hear your feedback! SkyPilot has two channels for engaging wit
 ## Contributing
 We welcome and value all contributions to the project! Please refer to the [contribution guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more on how to get involved.
 
-<section data-footnotes="" class="footnotes">
-<ol dir="auto">
-<li id="footnote1">
-<p dir="auto">SkyPilot is primarily targeted at machine learning workloads, but it can also support many general workloads. We're excited to hear about your use case and would love to hear more about how we can better support your requirements - please join us in <a href="https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/discussions/1016" data-hovercard-type="discussion" data-hovercard-url="/skypilot-org/skypilot/discussions/1016/hovercard">this discussion</a>! <a href="#user-content-fnref-1-ef971f73800a6dd5adf6bd5da0078476" data-footnote-backref="" aria-label="Back to content" class="data-footnote-backref"><g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="leftwards_arrow_with_hook" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/21a9.png">↩</g-emoji></a></p>
-</li>
-</ol>
-</section>
+
+[^1]: SkyPilot is primarily targeted at machine learning workloads, but it can also support many general workloads. We're excited to hear about your use case and would love to hear more about how we can better support your requirements - please join us in [this discussion](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/discussions/1016)!

sky/setup_files/setup.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 you simply define the workload and its resource requirements, and SkyPilot will
 automatically execute it on AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
 
-*: [^1]: SkyPilot is primarily targeted at machine learning workloads, but it can also
+*: SkyPilot is primarily targeted at machine learning workloads, but it can also
 support many general workloads. We're excited to hear about your use case and would
 love to hear more about how we can better support your requirements - please join us
 in [this discussion](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/discussions/1016)
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ def find_version(*filepath):
             return version_match.group(1)
         raise RuntimeError('Unable to find version string.')
 
+def parse_footnote(readme: str) -> str:
+    """Parse the footnote from the README.md file."""
+    footnote_re = re.compile(r'\[\^([0-9]+)\]')
+    return footnote_re.sub(r'<sup>[\1]</sup>', readme)
+
 
 install_requires = [
     'wheel',
@@ -92,6 +97,8 @@ def find_version(*filepath):
 # Skip the description for that case.
 if os.path.exists(readme_filepath):
     long_description = io.open(readme_filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8').read()
+    long_description = parse_footnote(long_description)
+
 
 setuptools.setup(
     # NOTE: this affects the package.whl wheel name. When changing this (if