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Show HN: Template2PDF Templates to PDF API
Hey all,

same idea 10 years later :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892813

Life got in the way and I abandoned the project.

Then I needed it for my own use, so now back, with a slightly different approach:

Normal google docs as templates. API even simpler.

Just finished building a zapier integration - hope I can publish it soon.

Hope to get some feedback and perhaps even some people to test it.

As always, thanks for your time :)

Sven
So was getting a man to the moon. Do you want to lose the AI race to the Chinese?
More comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42786962
No no no, he is right. Its safe because if you receive a bad batch of drugs you can leave a negative review on the page of the drug cartel that has your name and address, no chance of that having any repercussions for you at all.
Well, I've never known Trump to take credit for something someone else did.
Don’t say unfortunately. With all due respect India needs such talent desperately and you don’t have to worry about 6 years!
To wit his wife just launched one.
This could be plain software on any computer with network and a serial port. Not sure if the product is tied to RP hardware but it certainly wouldn't have to be. I work with thermal printers controlled by significantly less powerful hardware still running Linux, and still easily hit physical speed limits.
I'd rather see this as a pure software daemon that can run anywhere.
Why is Larry Ellison giving a speech about the power of AI to cure disease? How is Oracle relevant at all to any of AI progress in the past few years?
WASD is more of a mouse+keyboard thing since in a standard desk layout you can't extend your arms nicely

ZXCV(ASDF)+arrows I would say is more standard for non-mouse games with keyboard bindings, cave story and touhou both go this route.
Yes it was only those two missing but it might have been specific to Linux (desktop). When on my phone it renders properly.
I have nothing in particular to say about the dead comments in this very young thread, but they're sort-of-interesting comments to have been killed so quickly!

Is it due to HN policy? I guess they're subjective and ideological, and prone to starting arguments rather than debates.

Maybe "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity." or "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."?

I'm honestly just curious as a conscientious internet citizen lol
There are healthier middle grounds we could explore where e.g. advertisements are banned and individuals could register themselves as being banned from participating in certain addictive vices because they don't consistently have the willpower to quit or don't want to tempt fate trying it (and make it a crime to sell to an individual who has voluntarily banned themselves), but it's hard to argue that The War on Drugs has been in any way just.

I expect in such a society, certain groups (e.g. Mormons) would normalize banning yourself from vices the day you turn 18.
I believe they'd have to accept the chat request before any images would be loaded?

Looking at the app options it seems to be possible to disable media auto-download entirely; there's tickboxes for Images/Audio/Video/Documents via Mobile Data/Wi-Fi/Roaming.
When I use VSCode I do so because of the extensions. I use slack, because my employer tells me to use slack.
I use discord because that's where my friends are.
Features, coercion and network effects are more important than UX.
I think similar things apply to the examples given in the article.
The buyers of Bloomberg Terminal Software or NASA operators probably aren't all that concerned with startup time, RAM usage, animation smoothness or click latency.
But for software that primarily competes on UX rather than features or having a captive audience, native is usually the way to go. That's why there is a rather thriving scene of native terminal emulators, minimal text editors and calendar software.
Maybe Electron is what you need to deliver the features you need with resources you have, but please don't just default to it.
Well, I think that justice has been served. The feds' prosecution of Ulbricht was the epitome of throwing the book at someone to make an example, when the government's case was pretty flawed, in my opinion. 10 years is enough time to pay the debt of running the silk road.

I am glad that Ulbricht has been pardoned and I feel like a small iota of justice has been returned to the world with this action.
Separate courts. He was indicted and tried for all the non-murder stuff in a New York federal court. He was indicted separately in a Maryland federal court on a murder-for-hire charge.

The New York court convicted him, and then considered the murder-for-hire allegations when determining his sentence. They found them true by a preponderance of the evidence and and that was a factor in his sentence to life without parole. He appealed, and the Second Circuit upheld the sentence.

The prosecutors in Maryland then dropped the murder-for-hire charge because there was no point. They said this would allow them to direct their resources to other other cases where justice had not yet been served.
R is built on a Lisp-like run-time core, complete with symbols, and linked lists made of cons cells, etc.
If that's austism, I know several severely austistic people and am diagnosed autistic myself and absolutely none of us have done what can only possibly be described as a Seig Heil. I refuse to believe it was accident.
>If you are typically in New York, but plan to be in San Francisco next week, and you make some one-off meetings during your visit, how should the phone show you your “next week” view?

If you add an event while in London that is going to happen in New York at 7pm NY time, you set it at "7pm".

So you see it as "7pm event" while in London - but you know e.g. that this 7pm event concerns your visit to the Mets game in NY.

Then, when you land in New York and the timezone changes, you still see them as 7pm. What you entered is interpreted by default as a timezone-less absolute time. The same if, while in NYC, you set a feature 11pm event that will happen in London. When you get to London, it shows as an 11pm event.

Now, if the event you want to set needs coordination with different people, it could have a toggle like "tag with local timezone" or allow to set an explicit one, and then another toggle to "translate to local timezone to the people you're sharing this with". So, as I wrote above, in that case:

"If it's 2pm for them and that's 5pm for me, I want to see "Meeting: 5pm" at my calendar, not "Meeting: 2pm <some other place timezone>".

And they, of course, should see "Meeting: 2pm" on theirs.

>there’s not one obvious model for representing times across time zones in a way that will make sense to everyone.

Sure there is. UTC. It's just laziness that doesn't have people adopt it.

Shared events should be shown in UTC, and next to it, your local translated time of that (and the name of the place of timezone). Then an easy selector to see it translated to any other timezone.
Given the release of the new DeepSeek R1 model [0], OpenAI’s future revenue stream is probably more at risk than it was a week ago.

[0] - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/china-is-catching-up-with...
I wonder if he is going to be able to launder and cash out whatever crypto he squirreled away. His finances are probably going to be closely watched.

Starting a business that accepts crypto payments is going to be a tell.
Some of these show up as USB to serial converters and while you do need appropriate kernel drivers for that, they'll never be recognized as a "printer". Still usable though.
this is super cool! where did you get the data for the chart?
So you are sorry and take it back? Should probably delete your comments rather than striking them out, as the guidelines say.

I live, work, and posted this from Texas, BTW...

Also it takes up more than one line on my screen. So, not a "one-liner" either. If you think it is, please follow the rules consistently and enforce them by deleting all comments on the site containing one sentence or even paragraph. My comment was a pretty long sentence (136 chars) and wouldn't come close to fitting in the 50 characters of a Git "one-liner".

Otherwise, people will just assume all the comments are filtered through your unpredictable and unfairly biased eye. And like I said (and you didn't answer), this kind of thing is no longer in fashion, right?

None of this is "borderline". I did nothing wrong and you publicly shamed me. Think before you start flamewars on HN. Bad mod.
My comments just went right over your head. Didn't comprehend a word I wrote. It honestly makes me sad.

Let's be specific:

In the "Gender" executive order, Sec 2(a) and Sec 3(d), the administration has set it up so that the passport, global entry, social security, or other identity document of any transgender American citizen can be scrutinized, denied in the future, or in an expansive reading, retroactively revoked.

Since all such changes require documentation, there is almost certainly a list of all such people, unless the previous administration was clever enough to destroy it.

For example, a valid document for this man https://www.uri.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/news/sites/16/20... (picked at random, a picture of an openly trans man who has stated as such on a website), can no longer list an M. A document with an M on it is subject to government scrutiny, for example at any border crossing or other location where identity may be verified. The government may now argue that such a document is not valid. If he has no documents with such an M marker, he can no longer obtain them. Additionally, he must use the women's room, per sec (4).

"We're all gonna be okay!" The federal government is simply subjecting trans people to increased scrutiny, limiting their freedom of speech and expression and their freedom of movement. "Nobody's gonna lose their rights."

But hey, enjoy your brisket, right? How's the price of milk doing?
Lmao when I was in a PhD program, my French advisor told me something pretty similar. I dropped out, but maybe that is a French thing instead of an academic thing.
… in a society where slavery was legal, widespread, and rarely questioned.

Murder has never been legal.
Liskov Substitution is good sometimes actually
Serious question - why Texas???
If you mean hook this into iMessage, I don't know. I'm willing to bet it's way harder though because Apple
As I recall weapons weren't permitted on the platform.

The society didn't decide, the ruling class decided to use drug policy to attack their own citizens.

History shows that prohibition is an abject failure. The fent epidemic is symptomatic of this failed policy.

If they actually cared about the epidemic, addicts would have access to regulated, pharmaceutical grade heroin whilst also having ready access to treatment.

But then we'd have empty prisons and the police would be free to solve real crimes so we can't have that.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply I experienced any force field effects. I dont recall the humidity, but I do recall looking up OSHA rules regarding heat, and they only offer "guidance", nothing is regulated or enforced solely based on the temperature but they do reference relative humidity.
From another perspective, what you describe as mathematical truth is actually just a proof of a self-consistent mathematical model. Mathematical truth usually doesn't extend further than the page it's written on.

We can show that our mathematical models are internally self-consistent and match observed reality. These models describe the reality we observe, but not are inherently linked to the true nature of reality. Most of the time, new observations invalidate models we previously considered "true".
This is going to be the grift of the century. Sam will put Wall Street robber barons to shame.
To be clear: Not looking for an LLM to give tax advice (very cringe!) .. although it might be entertaining.

Yes, I do have an expat focused CPA based in the US who ultimately calculates & e-files for me, and however she has a questionaire and still requires me to prepare a summary.

She doesn't correlation transactions to acocunt codes which tend to be very repetitive. In my case many recurring & usage charges on different cards, etc. that need to be categorized, summarized.

As a consultant I've designed and implemented several big data systems which use various ML OCR in workflows. I'm referring to the toil of converting statements from PDF & classifying the receipts.

I'm not especially worried about an LLM hallucinating because I can/could objectively check to make sure the math adds up.
If it gets a few categorized incorrectly then it's not the end of the world because mistakes happen -- even with humans.
I will still need to audit it at the end.

Even a system which could get 95% correct would potentially reduce my toil from a week+ of emotional pain to a few hours. I wager a model with a fresh context performing a single line item with examples would outperform a human.

This is not something I necessarily need to solve this year .. for now I'm going to have to pay taxes every year until I decide to renounce my US citizenship and that also requires liquidating retirement accounts etc. with severe penalties & horrible tax implications.

I'm not super old, so there is a range let's say 1-50+ years ahead of me (given my age, when I will die) so an effect of automation could be to add a week a year could potentially give me a net result of an entire year. It might also have ancillary benefits of reducing both stress and inflammation, lowering cortisol, etc.
AI hallucinations can't be stopped – but some techniques can limit their damage
4. The US government can chip in via grants, tax breaks or contracts.

It's all very Dr. Strangelove. "Mr. President, we must not allow an AI gap! Now give us billions"
>The butterfly keyboard is undoubtedly the biggest fail in hardware design of the past 10 years. They took something that we figured out in the 1970s and somehow managed to screw it up and held onto it for three consecutive generations.

Well, while a fail, obviously we haven't "figured it out in the 1970s", as no laptop today has a (or could have a) 70s-style keyboard and be convenient.

And there are lots of things we haven't yet fixed with keyboard design, or are too expensive still, e.g.I'd like full dust protection.

>You’re only as good as your last product

Obviously false, as any designer (or product makers) has ups and downs. Ive had big failures in the late 90s/early 00s to o (e.g. the Cube).

If we valued people like that (and not by a weighted average of their track record) he'd never had a second or third or fourth chance - and similar for artists and other professions.
Trump's embrace of meme coin sours mood in crypto industry
“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”
Is there a doc for Python apps?
Oracle's cash on hand is presumably irrelevant- I think they are on the receiving end of the money, in return for servers. No wonder Larry Ellison was so fawning.

Is this is a good investment by Softbank? Who knows.. they did invest in Uber, but also have many bad investments.
No worries! I originally had a second half to that comment that I suppose did all the heavy lifting of making it palatable.

Thank you for the insight!
File systems with a billion files, archiving and compression
He has admitted his wrong doings and made efforts to change whilst in prison. I doubt he will go straight back to a life even remotely close to before. He was doing good in prison for other inmates and I imagine he will continue doing the same now he has this second chance.
> you need to install the correct Java version and maven

Like I said, any version from the last, like, 10+ years (Java and Maven are both serious about backward compatibility), and if you install an ancient version you at least get fail-fast with a reasonable error.

> we really should be using gradle by now

We really shouldn't.

> Adding custom build targets to maven’s build.xml is truly not ideal then there’s people who actually try to write logic in there.

Maven doesn't have a build.xml, are you thinking of ant? With maven you write your custom build steps as build plugins, and they're written in plain old Java (or Kotlin, or Scala, or...) code, as plain old Maven modules, with the same kind of ordinary unit testing as your regular code; all your usual code standards apply (e.g. if you want to check your test coverage, you do it the same way as for your regular code - indeed, probably the same configuration you set up for your regular code is already getting applied). That's a lot better than YAML.
Good - 10 years is long enough.
I've got a bunch of thermal printers in my work lab that definitely don't have this but they all support ESC/POS. They're all currently produced kiosk style printers.
You know what, LLM beleif does look an awful like early idolotry in Abrahamic tradition. I seem to remember at least one story of a speaking idol.
It's where the energy is for this project.

This is unfortunately paywalled but a good writeup on how the datacenter came to be:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-and-oracl...
This could potentially trigger an AI arms race between the US and China. The standard has been set, lets see what China responds with. Either way, it will accelerate the arrival of ASI, which in my opinion is probably a good thing.
Indeed. My dog loves the dissolve-on-your-tongue melatonin, but it is super deadly to her because of the Xylitol. I keep it on a high shelf now and am very careful to pick up any pieces that might get dropped. She made it through, but that was a terrifying few days D-:
You probably wouldn't want to run this in real-time on every site as it'll significantly increase the load on your browser, but as long as it's possible to generate adblock filter rules, the fixes can scale to a pretty large audience.
The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition
Because their isn't a change in law doesn't mean the convictions were secure and bound by law before.
> Where are they getting the $500B?

BTC
> They're playing the game on a scale of centuries

What's going to be left of their population in a single century?
The only thing I’d want:

Has no Blue LEDs: Pass

Has a Blue LED: Fail

Edit: Honorable mention for text boxes that silently eat newlines.
What happens to great apps that Apple buys out?
This conversation is presently flagged. Why? When Ross was sentenced HN had a discussion about it with more than 600 comments. His conviction has been discussed numerous additional times in other threads throughout the years. His pardon is plainly on-topic for HN, and this discussion is a necessary followup to those previous discussions.
I don’t think suggesting that his quote would imply his slaves would be justified in violating their own enslavement is any kind of presentism.
It is not. But this kind of money does have impact for society in any field. So, this a proper concern.
I had hoped the generations that grew up with the internet would learn how to use computers. Technical advantages like encryption and social advantages like federation tend to make things more complicated to use no matter how much effort is put into UX.

Most people did not, in fact learn how to use computers http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
Texas is a world leader in renewable energy. Easy permitting, lots of space, lots of existing grid infrastructure from the o&g industry.
https://archive.today/FNvkp
@idiotsecant is correct. Length of arc correlates to voltage, while most of the potential pain or damage from an arc will correlate more to amperage and/or to duration.
*with, typo.
Yes, I'd be interested in that!
That’s exactly how much I was making in 2010 when I graduated. It’s even much worse than that because the benefits sucked and the school took back about about 1/3rd in the form of outrageous parking fees and outrageous student fees that required us to pay for tickets to every sports game we couldn’t even attend. Add overpriced books to that too.

It took a PhD to figure out how not to accumulate any new debt for those 6 years. I would have been first in line for food stamps, if they were available to us. I literally couldn’t afford to stay in student housing.
This is self-evidently incorrect, for a multitude of reasons.

Reason 1: Gay men do not wait to 'realize' they are gay until their 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s. "Trans" do.

Reason 2: Autogynephilia exists.

Reason 3: Orientation threatens (essentially) no one. But transgenderism directly attacks the sex-based rights that women have long fought for, undermining their rights to sex-segregated spaces (see Tickle vs Giggle or that crazy LA Spa case).

Reason 4: While homosexuality is trivial to define (same-sex attraction), transgenderism is not. Gender was defined as "performing" one's sex, per feminism. But if one "performs" the other sex, they are merely non-gender-conforming, not the other sex! This is why "what is a woman" has become such an infamous question, because trans activists cannot answer it in a way that actually makes sense to anyone.

I could go on. Downvote if you must, but we are post-peak-trans and reality is re-asserting itself; I am glad of it. Without wishing ill towards those caught up in the madness, I say: No. I shall not use pronouns that require me to lie about how I perceive the world, and I deny that the assertion of my right to speak truth is an act of hatred.
I haven't seen anything to suggest that anyone was harmed for leaving a bad review.
My kneejerk response was to point to the incoming administration, but the fact Stargate has been in the works for more than a year now says to me it's because of tax credits.
does he even need to launder it ? The pardon may cover any proceeds given Trump described it as "a full and unconditional pardon"
"unseemly cash grab" is .. definitionally what an awful lot of meme coins are.

I think there's a lot of things to happen yet in this space. People like to talk about pump/dump and rugpull but the simpler truth to me is that selling at any time in a belief your meme coin has higher value than you bought at, and you believe you want to crystallise that value into fiat currency or some other value proposition, does not necessarily mean you think the value will decline, but in the case of $TRUMP I think we do all believe its innate value over time has a 4 year life. So I would expect most of the buying and selling to terminate inside 4 years and I would expect the cynicism and concern here, is when the current 80% holder decides to sell out of it. If he does it early in his presidency, is that different to doing it near the end?

I think it is very likely he has no intent to sell. He doesn't need $16b he needs a lower figure, and he will secure that simply by the existence of the $16b, in some manner I dont entirely understand, and then its value is unrelated to the coin, and stands. He'll acquire real goods and property or rights over them, collateralise on that, and the secure an increase in value on them. The coin will only be guarantor over the life of some financial transaction.

If his $16b can secure $10b of external worth, which in turn increases to $11b, he winds up with $1b of untainted worth, independently of the $16b, he can be free of the $10b, keep the $1b and he's done. He won. "I didn't sell" can be true.

Tax.. well at his age, thats his kids problem.
The overwhelming majority of listings on the site were for personal use quantities.
I worked briefly in a factory where they had these giant rolls arriving daily... they were put onto a machine that would spool them off onto smaller rolls (say 100ft) and chop them. It's definitely something commonplace.
i never heard of the postdoc owning the IP. it's always the university