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fredguth··on Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?
I would use pandoc and convert to pdf using typst:

```

pandoc input.html -t typst -o output.typ

typst compile output.typ output.pdf

```

fredguth··on Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement
I totally agree. I have written in LaTeX extensively and Typst is a game changer and a life saver. The community is also a plus. I love it and I will never go back to TeX.
fredguth··on SQL needed structure
Today I Learned the power of LATERALs... thanks. :-)
fredguth··on Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole
RxDB is the OG? I thought it was PouchDB.
fredguth··on Shiny for Python 1.0
Great news!! Shiny for Python 1.0 is now available! As an enthusiast, I've been eagerly anticipating this release. Congratulations to the Posit team, who, with Quarto, Shiny, and so many other open-source projects, are bringing superpowers to a whole new kind of user. Shiny's ease of use is a bliss for a lot of new coders, including those who don't see themselves as traditional programmers.

Check it out: [Shiny for Python 1.0 Announcement](https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/shiny-python-1.0/)

Happy coding!

fredguth··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
Oh no… that is just every marriage.
fredguth··on Brutalist Churches
I would add Catedral Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro.
fredguth··on Building an open data pipeline in 2024
Same here. I just wished OP pointed to an example repo with a minimum working example.
fredguth··on Friends don't let friends export to CSV
What is the encoding of the text file? UTF8, windows-1252?

What is the decimal delimiter “.”, “,”?

Most csv users don’t even know they have to be aware of all of these differences.

fredguth··on Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
Animator was the name of the first animation software I used in 94.
fredguth··on Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
Interesting to see ObservableHQ making strides towards dashboards, similar to what Quarto and Evidence are doing.

Observable Notebooks reactivity feels intuitive, much like spreadsheets, but the lack of self-hosting options is no-go Drawback in my work context.

fredguth··on Quarto
The latest version has Typst support and allow producing pdf files much faster than any LateX distribution. Even with a complex template it compiles almost instantly and you can see the final pdf changing while you are typing.
fredguth··on Quarto
Is the default template not small and fast enough for you?

It generates html in a folder and afaik it the file is self-contained, i.e. it includes in the html all 200-ish lines of js it uses, no external dependencies.

fredguth··on Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ear training game
Same for me, I can play just using the keyboard not the GUI.
fredguth··on Show HN: Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools
Check temporal.io, they are used by Uber, Netflix, Datadog...
fredguth··on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
Oh gosh. You didn’t get the joke. It is a reference to Monty Python.
fredguth··on Japanese words of Portuguese origin
The nasal sound of pão is very difficult for foreigners.
fredguth··on GPT-4’s secret
Interesting. I hated it. I usually like Lex Friedman’s interviews even (or even more when) I disagree with the interviewee. I agreed a bunch with Holtz but I could not build empathy.

I tried, but for me he is too childish despite his undeniable intelligence. I am sorry for him.

fredguth··on Run Llama 13B with a 6GB graphics card
GitHub Copilot is (or once was) a 13b model, according to Nat Friedman in the scale.ai interview. (https://youtu.be/lnufceCxwG0)
fredguth··on Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
What are the implications for Intel, Apple, NVIDIA? How much can Mojo helps leveling the competition landscape?
fredguth··on Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
Open-cv would benefit tremendously by migrating to mojo.
fredguth··on Mojo – a new programming language for AI developers
I can’t wait to see fast.ai-next in mojo :-)
fredguth··on Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI
He is not directly doing this. He is using Forefront.ai that offer GPT4 for free in their service. So, the guy is ripping off some VC money, not directly OpenAI's. The question remaining is what is Forefront.ai business model?
fredguth··on Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
Drawing of self adjusting trees by Jorge Stolfi.

https://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/splay/tree5.jpg

fredguth··on Pelé has died
It is almost impossible to explain his role in Brazilian culture. All great Brazilian writers of the 20th century adored him. Musics about his goals. Expressions we use to this day( like “ gol de placa”). He was also very conscious in separating his public persona, Pele, from his private one, Edson, the man.
fredguth··on SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
+1 here. I have already seen some videos with people toying with surrealdb and it looks amazing. But I need a offline-first (local-first) solution. Recently, TinyDB was posted here at HN. I also heard of InstantDB (react only).
fredguth··on Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
Discourse is a web app that does that. The url should be the place to keep navigational state.
fredguth··on Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks
I also was reading your post with the mindset "how to regulate social networks". I strongly believe that all big organizations need regulation. It is not easy to regulate social networks, but heck maybe it wasn't easy to regulate telephony or energy.
fredguth··on Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?
What defines a big acquisition? Price or comparable size of the acquirer versus acquired?
fredguth··on Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?
I like the example, but can you say that NeXT was a large acquisition for Apple? How big was NeXT compared to Apple? Does size matter in this analysis? I believe so. I don't know much about this particular acquisition, but I always assumed that buying NeXT was the price to get Jobs back.
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