MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by constantinum | 2026-01-20 16:18:11+00:00
What matters most is how well OCR and structured data extraction tools handle documents with high variation at production scale. In real workflows like accounting, every invoice, purchase order, or contract can look different. The extraction system must still work reliably across these variations with minimal ongoing tweaks.

Equally important is how easily you can build a human-in-the-loop review layer on top of the tool. This is needed not only to improve accuracy, but also for compliance—especially in regulated industries like insurance.

Other tools in this space:

LLMWhisperer/Unstract(AGPL)

Reducto

Extend Ai

LLamaparse

Docling
by jpmattia | 2026-01-20 16:18:49+00:00
[I'm still thinking about this a day later!]

I think an additional table/graph of how large-bet performance vs small-bet performance would be interesting in general, as well as broken out by market type.

It kinda answers of the question: Are large bets equal to smart money? or are they equal in "smartness" to small bets?
by xienze | 2026-01-20 16:19:42+00:00
You understand how statistics work, don't you? When you have 64% of the population voting, that's a pretty big sample size, enough so that you can reasonably extrapolate that the 49.8% share _probably_ holds across the rest of the population, give or take.

Put another way, if someone asked you to estimate what the split between the one third of the population that didn't vote was, what would you use as a reference point? Social media posts? Vibes? Or maybe polls leading up to the vote that showed the same roughly 50-50 split found in the actual results?
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-20 16:19:42+00:00
Direct Memory Access (DMA) via PCI-e bypasses anti-cheat in the OS because the OS doesn't see the call to read or write the memory. There's no process to spy on, weird drivers, system calls, etc. You can imagine that maybe the anticheat could detect writes that perform a cheat by this method, but it has zero chance of detecting a wallhack style cheat that just reads memory. This is getting to be less relevant with modern OSs, though. Window 11 has IOMMU which only allows DMA to a given memory region defined per device. I think it should be impossible to do this on win11.
by packetlost | 2026-01-20 16:19:50+00:00
I think you misunderstand who participates in a civil war, at least initially. It's not always the citizens, in this case it's the state militia and the federal government. We are dangerously close to that.

I agree that it's silly to say "we're as close as we ever have...", but the rest of GPs point stands. Things are bad, and just because you're not seeing it and are rich enough to not care doesn't mean it's not happening.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-20 16:20:01+00:00
The US and France are both nuclear armed, including nuclear armed submarines, which are the ultimate defence deterrent.

It's hard to see any country wanting to get into conventional war with China, regardless of size of army and airforce - even the US is not going to do it unless actually attacked. At the end of the day if China seizes Taiwan (something Trump has made more likely by his seizing of Venezuala, now talking about Greenland, Cuba ..), then the US will just complain, create trade sanctions and/or tarrifs etc.
by rjzzleep | 2026-01-20 16:20:02+00:00
The EU threw all its baskets into a war it didn't need to fight, destroyed its energy independence, it's weapons, it's airdefense and huge parts of its air force. I don't think they have a lot of cards to play.

There an interesting analysis on whether the EUs threats on financial markets actually bear any meaning here:

https://x.com/Kathleen_Tyson_/status/2013314168250675456

Edit: March 2022 peace deal that Boris Johnson sabotaged

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/15/world/europe/...
by JamesTRexx | 2026-01-20 16:20:05+00:00
In that regard, I'd say Olancher is more kiss (kisser, kissiest?) with a text-only interface. I like it as much as my featureless openbox desktop.
Used Atom for a decade or longer or so, keeping a copy of the apk safe because it was abandoned, but with the new phone I had to find something to replace it.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-20 16:20:09+00:00
I agree with his statement you quote. I believe that the US still has some growth ahead purely out of existing demographics and population, but that due to go forward geopolitics and global trade reconfigurations, more growth will be had internationally than in the US over the next 5-10 years (and this is the same guidance I share with the HNW individuals I advise from geopolitical safety and portfolio strategy perspectives). Where has most growth been in the US recently? The Mag 7, AI, data centers, etc. Will this growth last? No one knows. What happens when it stops? Sadness.

Global markets outperform the U.S. in 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DERutj8lfY - December 30th, 2025

2026 Outlook: International Stocks and Economy - https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/international-stock-marke... - December 9th, 2025

(not investing advice, I am simply very curious and a degenerate gambler)
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-01-20 16:20:28+00:00
My dream is where the the laptop itself has a similar design. Where when you open the laptop, the screen gets raised by about a foot. I can't really conceive of times when I need the laptop screen low, so one wouldn't need all the extra frame and parts needed in this mod.

I haven't conceived the exact mechanism for it, but it would be fun to try and do it for the Framework laptop.
by moogly | 2026-01-20 16:20:29+00:00
Well then us Europeans are fucked regardless I guess.

> Beijing did not want to see a Russian loss in Ukraine because it feared the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing

How does this statement make sense though? I don't see the A -> B. The US pretty clearly does not want to see a Russian loss either, and seems more fine with Ukraine losing.

It should depends on how much the US wants Europe?

If the US does not want more of Europe, and Russia wins, the US could let Russia take over Europe -> focus shifts to China.

If the US wants more of Europe, and Russia wins -> focus would be off China.

If the US does not want more of Europe, and Russia loses -> it's mostly whatever, but perhaps focus shifts to China.

If the US wants more of Europe, and Russia loses -> focus would be off China.

Perhaps I'm just really daft.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-20 16:20:32+00:00
> If the vast majority of people recognized ads and skipped them as more technically minded people do

People definitely do this. When I worked for a large social media company, we almost always had ads in position 2. People noticeably (in the aggregate data) spent less time with this position in the viewport.

But honestly, most people are just extra impressions/revenue for most advertisers, there's a much smaller number of people who drive ~all of the conversions.
by mindslight | 2026-01-20 16:21:27+00:00
I don't understand how you can reference narratives like this, wear your minority identity on your sleeve like you're still competing in the DEI Olympics, but yet keep failing to see that you're personally responsible for doing exactly as this book bemoans.

If you're really concerned about preserving the culture of the US against dilution by other cultures, have you ever thought that maybe it's time for you personally to hold back with the developing-country-style populist strongman boosting? Not some vague "other" that might come here and do even more of the same, but you personally, right here, right now.

If this lauded western European culture is based around consensus, process, and compromise (rough points you've made elsewhere about the importance of culture), surely you can recognize that this culture has something to say about the wisdom of attacking longstanding allies (regardless of any perceived immediate benefit). Essentially, if you see value in the incumbent culture then maybe you should be content deferring to it a bit more while you're still assimilating.

I'm sure you're going to have rationalizations aplenty in response to this comment, so all I can really say is perhaps try some self-reflection.
by odie5533 | 2026-01-20 16:21:50+00:00
I use Development containers (dev-containers) as demonstrated by Claude Code's docs https://code.claude.com/docs/en/devcontainer

It all integrates nicely with VS Code. It has a firewall script and you spin up your database within the docker compose file so it has full access to a postgres instance. I can share my full setup if anyone needs it.
by eggy | 2026-01-20 16:21:53+00:00
It's not like the EU can go to China for the $64 to $94bn in mineral fuels and oils (LNG, crude oil) they import from the U.S. Or the aerospace products and parts $35-46bn they import. Or the $45-$52bn in pharmaceuticals and medicines and advanced biologics (unless they go all in on generics, but this is only part of that sum). The list goes on and on. Germany trying to reboot their nuclear energy infrastructure, but it's a bit too late to help this winter, and they're the third largest consumer in the world after the US and and China. India is 8th.

The US imports a lot from Mexico, 15.5% of the total $3.36 trillion of US import, right here in the Americas. The EU about imports are about 18.5%.

Merz's mother-of-all-deals needs to have India lower its imposed tariffs on Germany of 100-150% on autos, which would cut against India if the new FTA goes through by Q2 2026.

May you live in interesting times is a wish or curse coming to fruition...
by watwut | 2026-01-20 16:22:39+00:00
Republican congressman vote in support of Trump and his agenda with super rare exceptions. Most of the time, they all vote to support him. It is completely fair to say that.

> only that they would rather support him than the Democrats.

This literally counts as "uniformly supporting Trump". Nothing less. They are all in for Trump agenda. It is straightforwardly absurd to claim that this somehow represents someone against that agenda. And no, "I do it only because I prefer this over voting with people who are against it" does not changes anything on it.

If you would rather support Trumps agenda then vote with Democrats, then you are supporting Trump. And no, it is not as if they had to make some ideological or ethical sacrifice by voting with Democrats here. They cant do it simply because they support Trump.
by nicoburns | 2026-01-20 16:22:41+00:00
> If 40+ years of mobile phones have not solved such problems through regulations, I am afraid they won't be solved for EVs either.

I don't think that follows. Nobody has even attempted to solve these problems for mobile phones. And the main reason for that is that it's a pretty new problem. Appliances 40 or 50 years ago were much simpler and typically quite repairable. It's only the recently that a focus on manufacturing efficiency and profitability have led to these kind of problems.
by antonvs | 2026-01-20 16:22:46+00:00
What could easily happen much sooner than 5 years is an incident that gives Trump an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, and send federal troops - not just National Guard - into blue US cities. Things could go a lot of different ways after that, but something resembling civil war - or a smaller-scale guerilla war - is very much in the realm of possibility.

Be wary of normalcy bias, it's a big part of what lets the Trump admin get away with what its doing. People think "oh that can't happen"... until it does.
by GJim | 2026-01-20 16:22:55+00:00
> The US is more stable than the powers of Europe ....... You're confusing Trump's mouth with how the US political system actually functions.

Eh?

If the US political system was stable and fit for purpose, the US would have got rid of the wannabe dictator by now; or at least held his power in check.

EDIT: Amusingly, I'm being downvoted by a class of American who refuses to believe their way might not be the best after all. Even when the facts are staring them in the face.
by ptero | 2026-01-20 16:22:57+00:00
Warnings about the deficit is spot on. It is a safe bet that the country with government that spends 50% more than it takes in as taxes will not give above inflation return on its government debt. As a side note, most of the "Western world" is in the same boat (spending way above the long-term ability to pay, so eventually will have to default-by-inflation on bondholders).

But I am sure the poster you are responding to was criticizing the take about US splintering into parts due to armed unrest within the next 5 years. Which sounds completely nonsensical to me as well.
by nemomarx | 2026-01-20 16:23:03+00:00
Ironically the original intent of the second amendment was closer to "the states should have a lot of people used to using guns so they can raise militias if necessary".

ICE has recruited a lot of those people - you don't see as many weird paramilitary militia groups as you did back in 2020. So I guess it technically worked as intended here. Unfortunately that means more jackboots with "don't tread on me" flags on their unmarked vans.
by 7speter | 2026-01-20 16:23:09+00:00
> And the US is at a high level of strength, not weakness. Its large corporations hold sway over the globe in a manner the likes of which has never been seen before in modern history. Its military has force projection to nearly every point on the globe, with hundreds of global military bases. Its national wealth is at an all-time high. Its stock markets are at all-time highs. Its median income is at an all-time high. Its median dispoable income is at an all-time high. Its housing wealth is at an all-time high

This is in part because other countries allow American countries to come in and take over markets.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-20 16:23:24+00:00
>. Living in the Netherlands, I drive a 2008 Daihatsu Cuore, bought for 850E over a year ago, I pay 17E /month in mrb (road tax) and 38E/month insurance.

Imagine how many people are reading this and thinking to themselves "government has to do something to drive up those numbers so it's no longer financially sensible for you to drive that car"
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 16:23:33+00:00
What nonsense. We have plenty of cards to play and if 'having cards to play' is what stood between the USA and the relationship we had - or rather that we thought we had - for the last 70 years stood for something then that should not have been a factor in the first place.

This whole thing is due to one country not playing by the rulebook because they think they're big enough to fuck over the world. Guess what? No single country is big enough for that. Trump is way out of his depth when it comes to statesmanship and has replaced it with brinkmanship, that's not a valid substitute unless what you're looking for a a disaster.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-20 16:23:37+00:00
It's funny, because I had been feeling this in my gut - the idea that they do have oversight over flagging and downvoting, and they just pick and choose who they go after based on biases.

To that end, I've actually been avoiding the downvote and flag button entirely. It's handy to close off an avenue of admin retaliation, but on a deeper level I feel like the reflexive race to downvote people you disagree with is the "game" part of gamified engagement.

Besides, if an HN user says something horrendous, I feel like other HN users deserve to know the kind of company they have on this site, instead of tone-policing it under the rug.
by Supermancho | 2026-01-20 16:23:49+00:00
For a time there was a large amount of Chinese money fleeing to Canada and the US, buying up coastland and other high value residential. Circa 2018ish, that reversed due to Xi Ping's mandates. Near Seattle, the Bellevue luxury market bottom fell out over a month long period. AFAIK, it never fully returned to the hey day levels of spending.
by rishi_blockrand | 2026-01-20 16:23:55+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Rishi, the creator of Blockrand.

I built this because I noticed a recurring trust issue in web3 gaming and raffles: users often don't trust the 'house' seed, and developers struggle to implement complex commitment schemes.

How it works: We use a Double-Blind model. The SDK generates a local secret (player_hash) before talking to the server. The server then commits to its own secret and anchors the round to a future Drand beacon. The final result is only revealed once all three pieces of entropy are public.

The Tech:
Go/Firestore backend (handling user-level commitments to prevent race conditions).
Drand (distributed randomness) as the external anchor.
Zero-dependency JS SDK.
It's free for developers (up to 100 active users/month). I’d love to hear your thoughts on the commitment logic and the SDK's verification flow.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-20 16:24:04+00:00
> How does this statement make sense though? I don't see the A -> B. The US pretty clearly does not want to see a Russian loss either, and seems more fine with Ukraine losing.

Despite Trump, the US (and rivals of China like South Korea and Japan) have continued to supply the Ukrainian armed forces and their allies like Poland.

A protracted Russia-Ukraine War with the balance of power in favor of Russia means the US, SK, and JP remain bogged supplying Ukraine and it's allies like Poland and Romania, instead of diverting stock to the Asian front.

China and Russia are increasingly collaborating to respond against Japan should a conflict occur [0]

> It should depends on how much the US wants Europe?

The issue is both the US and China view the EU as a regional power that can be pushed around - not as an entity that can retain strategic autonomy.

This is the crux of the EU's current diplomatic malaise - neither the US nor China view the EU as an equal, but rather, as a junior partner.

> Perhaps I'm just really daft

I won't say daft, but the issue is Europeans view themselves as being deserving of being on the same table as the Americans and Chinese. Neither the Americans or Chinese see it that way now.

In order for the EU to build strategic autonomy, some very painful steps need to be taken which simply aren't being taken (as Draghi pessimistically pointed out a couple months ago) [1].

Additionally, periphery regions of the EU have increasingly started operating independently of the rest of the EU - as with China's CSPs with Spain [2] and Hungary [3] and Israel+India's defense alliances with Greece [4] and Cyprus [5] against Turkiye - so a unified EU response is steadily degrading as members decide to take defense matters into their own hands.

Basically, if a naval standoff between Greece and Turkiye was to arise in the next 6 months in the Aegean Sea, would the rest of the EU sanction Turkiye (and thus lose a major defense partner in Ukraine [6][7][8]) or ignore Turkiye (and thus destroy the EU and NATO defense commitment).

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-russia-discuss-ukr...

[1] - https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250916-mario...

[2] - http://en.cppcc.gov.cn/2025-11/13/c_1140641.htm

[3] - https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202405/10/content_WS663d3b83...

[4] - https://geetha.mil.gr/kyklos-synomilion-staff-talks-kai-ypog...

[5] - https://www.bankingnews.gr/amyna-diplomatia/articles/851003/...

[6] - https://ukrainesarmsmonitor.substack.com/p/ukraine-turkiye-s...

[7] - https://www.cats-network.eu/publication/ukraine-turkey-strat...

[8] - https://www.rnbo.gov.ua/en/Diialnist/3345.html
by lovich | 2026-01-20 16:24:06+00:00
There was no reason to negotiate with the confederacy because these were US states.

Them leaving was a non starter. You claiming he refused to negotiate with them is just saying "Lincoln didnt capitulate to the Confederacy on the _one_ thing that was non negotiable".

> If Lincoln hadn't refused to negotiate with the confederacy as a whole likely the war would be much less bloody or maybe even fully avoided.

Confederates shot first at Fort Sumter. If they hadn't started a war over their desire to own people, it would have been avoided. You can sign up for your local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy here[1] if you want to keep peddling these revisionist views.

[1]https://hqudc.org/
by adventured | 2026-01-20 16:24:19+00:00
You're assuming NATO is somehow critical for the US. It is not.

NATO is critical for the European powers (those not named Russia). The US doesn't require it. The US doesn't need to defend Europe any longer. And it's clear the Europeans don't want the US there, so it works out great. Europe can boost its defense spending by ~$300 billion to make up the difference, or not, whatever they choose to do is up to them.

The US had the world's largest economy six decades before NATO existed. China is growing into a superpower entirely without a NATO-like participation. NATO is primarily beneficial to European stability. The US doesn't need NATO to defend itself at all.
by linguae | 2026-01-20 16:24:19+00:00
To add, this 56% is not evenly distributed politically. Protests in California, Minnesota, and New York (all blue states) are not likely to get red state representatives and senators to threaten Trump with removal. Blue state congresspeople are already on board with removing Trump, but removal can’t happen without 2/3rds of the Senate getting on board, which means this can’t happen today without some Republican support.

I’m a Californian. It’s one thing for me to write Alex Padilla or Adam Schiff; they’d vote to convict if they have the chance. But they won’t get a chance unless people like Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham say “enough is enough,” but I don’t live in those states.
by StephenSmith | 2026-01-20 16:24:40+00:00
If the goal is to make US goods attractive to other countries and to decrease our trade deficit (not saying I agree with this goal), either the dollar has to become fundamentally weaker or the goods have to become more valuable. The latter feels more difficult than the former at this point. However, the side effects of a weaker dollar may not be worth weakening it.
by diego_moita | 2026-01-20 16:25:09+00:00
The biggest problem of all social sciences is that they measure only what can be measured or is easier to measure. Sorry for the redundancy, but they don't see what is hard to see and, therefore, think it doesn't exist.

I suspect there might be a lot of "de-dollarization" going on in realms that might not be easy to measure. To be specific: it is interesting that crypto-currencies have emerged as the currency of choice for illegal activities.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-20 16:25:53+00:00
> Protest every weekend?

Have protests ever stopped the creation of a dictatorship, in history?

> build momentum until this can't be ignored?

Your answer to "how do we stop this" is "do something until it stops."

> perhaps write to congressmen?

"Dear official who actively supports subverting our democracy: Please don't."

> attend townhall meetings and ask questions to your representatives?

Filed under "Rearrange the desk chairs."

> try to raise awareness to your friends who don't vote?

This (alone) would have the ability to change things... but at this point, they are hiding that shameful fact. Non-voters and supporters of third parties in the US are effectively supporting the status quo.

You didn't suggest this, but I already employee a spicy bumpersticker that complains about Trump, and give stern looks to the screen when the news reports on abuses of law.
by mmaunder | 2026-01-20 16:25:55+00:00
The dollar has lost 13% vs the South African Rand in the past year. Thats an interesting metric for me given how South Africa has decoupled from the US in favor of China and Russia, with a strong anti-Israel stance. And also taking into consideration how the country is still struggling with crime, corruption and uncertainty.

It’s doing to be interesting to see how this plays out as the producers and makers of the world unite, and the EU turns away from the US.