Maybe my imagination is limited or our documents aren't complex enough, but are we talking about realistic written documents? I'm sure you can take a screenshot of a very complex spreadsheet and it fails, but in that case you already have the data in structured form anyway, no?
It's not really about SEC filings, though. While we folks on HN would never think of hard copies of invoices, but much of the world still operates this way.
As mentioned above I have about 200 construction invoices. They are all formatted in a way that doesn't make sense. Most fail both OCR and OpenAI
Now if someone mails or faxes you that spreadsheet? You're screwed.
Spreadsheets are not the biggest problem though, as they have a reliable 2-dimensional grid - at worst some cells will be combined. The form layouts and n-dimensional table structures you can find on medical and insurance documents are truly unhinged. I've seen documents that I struggled to interpret.
To be fair, this is problematic for humans too. My old insurer outright rejected things like that stating it's not legible.
(I imagine it also had the benefit of reducing fraud/errors).
In this day and age, it's probably easier/better to change the process around that as there's little excuse for such shit quality input. I understand this isn't always possible though.
Messages are durable (across nodes, not just persisted to the filesystem). Messages are delivered in-order (for a partition). Consumers know all partitions of a topic from startup, it's not eventually consistent.
NSQ has been great honestly, it was just designed with different use cases in mind.
It all started a year ago during a crypto fever run. A bitcoin coin is cool, but you know what's better? A gigantic Bitcoin bronze.
At first with an out-of-scale wooden version, then things started getting serious. 3D printer, silicon, and molten copper. Making such a piece with a mirror finish requires fine art expertise and took several trials.
The sculpture is signed by the foundry and encrusted with the bitcoin payment transaction hash on its side. It is close to impossible to counterfeit such a piece. Each foundry has its own signature based on the shares of each metal composing the bronze. Moreover, being handmade, two sculptures will never look exactly the same.
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