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abc03 commented on Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M nytimes.com/2026/02/11/wo... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

KellyCriterion · a month ago

Swiss comp advantage started in WWII when they were used to exchange Nazis gold into other currencies - this gave them a topstart for the economic period after the war since they were perfectly connected globally and they understood to scale & keep this advantage for long time. Maybe its fading a little bit nowadays

abc03 · a month ago

This seems a highly biased view. You could also say that because Switzerland wasn’t war raged they had a had start.

abc03 commented on Show HN: I got fired so I built a bank statement converter aussiebankstatements.com... · Posted by u/matherslabs

abc03 · 4 months ago

I appreciate that you described your approach. I don‘t live in Australia but because of this I still looked at it.

abc03 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) · Posted by u/david927

jbarrow · 5 months ago

Training ML models for PDF forms. You can try out what I’ve got so far with this service that automatically detects where fields should go and makes PDFs fillable: https://detect.semanticdocs.org/ Code and models are at: https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms

That’s built on a dataset and paper I wrote called CommonForms, where I scraped CommonCrawl for hundreds of thousands of fillable form pages and used that as a training set:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16506

Next step is training and releasing some DETRs, which I think will drive quality even higher. But the ultimate end goal is working on automatic form accessibility.

abc03 · 5 months ago

Congratulations on being featured in the Superhuman newsletter. Trying it out.

abc03 commented on Ask HN: Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects? · Posted by u/zizee

abc03 · 5 months ago

My two cents, although there are probably some more people qualified to answer this: Avo, Sidekiq, Gorails etc. can make a living. Why couldn’t you?

abc03 commented on Swiss voters back e-ID legislation admin.ch/gov/en/start/doc... · Posted by u/Davidbrcz

abc03 · 5 months ago

For context, this is the second voting. In the first 2021, 64% said no because the e-ID would have been administrated by private companies.

abc03 commented on Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG morphik.ai/blog/stop-pars... · Posted by u/Adityav369

abc03 · 8 months ago

Related question: what is today‘s best solution for invoices?

abc03 commented on AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks accounting.penrose.com/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

abc03 · 8 months ago

A serious problem for many accounting start ups who so far faked it till it will work. In other words, they still need to do more manual labor than they thought. They will never be profitable and it will take years, if ever, until AI will substitute the local accountant.

abc03 commented on G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum tax thehindu.com/news/interna... · Posted by u/Bluestein

abc03 · 8 months ago

There are rules for RoW and there are rules for the USA. Astonishing that the G7 falls in this trap again and again (for example Basel III). The US was a major driver in pillar 2 but won‘t adhere to it. Probably companies will restructure their organization to have two streams and exploit it. Despite GILTI, some US companies have low ETRs.

abc03 commented on The Rise of the Japanese Toilet nytimes.com/2025/05/29/bu... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

keepamovin · 9 months ago

I know the Japanese refined this (as they do so many things such as — no offense to Italians — pizza and pasta; I think the Japanese often do it really well), but I always thought this was a French/European thing and not really what you call a Japanese toilet.

I’m certain the Japanese couldn’t be the first to find ways to heat seats or provide different settings for washing.

abc03 · 9 months ago

Indeed Geberit invented it and Toto marketed it. I have to say quite well.

abc03 commented on Brex Layoffs brex.com/journal/a-messag... · Posted by u/bpc84

atlasunshrugged · 2 years ago

Really? I would have assumed that attorney is one of those jobs that is going to be hugely disrupted by AI. Should people new to the field bother if they aren't going to be top X% (5? 10?)?

abc03 · 2 years ago

For people without the resources, yes. For people that have a problem and resources, no. They pay for the best and want to be sure it‘s watertight.

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