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re-thcon Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick

> Taiwan solved tax evasion

No. Not even close. It maybe improved it.

These surface level posts that people then run with and it spreads is no good.

1. Yes that transactions have to be recorded 2. No it can't tell what gets recorded 3. Ownership is still based on honesty

E.g. companies ask their staff for these invoice receipts or to quote the business tax id so they can report higher expenses that never occurred.

E.g. this did solve the anonymous case but if both buyer and seller agree you can issue a $1 invoice and then exchange $1000 in cash.

Not to say this isn't good but the idea it solved everything is just wrong.

re-thcon GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

Then they should have just called it Fairytale

re-thcon GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

> OpenAI can also use the naming playbooks of current Intel

Past Intel had way better naming.

It'd just be OpenAI GPT 5.6++++++++++++++

re-thcon Why low-latency Java still requires discipline?

> but I’ve also found that JFR works really well with LLMs

There's also async profiler. LLMs just use whatever. Lots of choices.

re-thcon AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

> I hope Mark Cerny launches his PS6 sooner rather than later

With the current RAM and SSD prices... I rather a bit later.

re-thcon Why low-latency Java still requires discipline?

> If low latency is your goal than you don't want JIT. JIT has two issues in low latency...

There's startup "AOT cache" via Leyden that speeds up startup. Isn't native speed up it's quite a big boost.

Then there's GraalVM that does give you a native image. Real AOT.

re-thcon Why low-latency Java still requires discipline?

> Average go, rust, c++ and c will outperform amazing java programs

Not true. Many benchmarks have shown otherwise. it is at least competitive in many areas.

> and the former will also be way way more easy to run, troubleshoot, interpret logs from

No language will save you from poor logging practices. If you log every debug log it's not Java's problem. No 1 says you have to log the full stack trace if that's your concern. You can configure / strip / do anything. Learn to use the stack.

re-thcon Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

> I don't particularly like eager new colleagues who come up with (hallucinate) wrong answers.

People are most likely to come up with suggestions and ideas earlier rather than later.

Often they’re not learning what is “correct” but just how to “fit in”. A fresh perspective can be good even if flawed. It can help others spark new ideas and think outside the box.

re-thcon GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

> Pretty soon they might just ask people to write code themselves.

GPT-10 Human Ultra

re-thcon Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

> This is an open source project, not a F500 company.

Vercel?

re-thcon Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs

No, quoting the article:

> only really suits prototyping and low-volume runs rather than high-volume production at commercial foundries

re-thcon Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

> why suddenly everyone is rushing to adopt Base UI instead of Radix

MUI (who started Base UI) hired the Radix "original" developers and they were pushing that as it being Radix v2.

re-thcon Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

> There is a scale between prise-sensitivity and risk-averseness, from my point of reference large companies are much more risk-averse than they are price sensitive.

That's not true. It's just the way things work "saving money" isn't part of the KPI. Enterprise teams get a budget. If you "saved" you don't get it back. So unless there's a legit need it's ALWAYS easier increasing than cutting it.

It's not about risk. It's about power. They are price sensitive but in a way that doesn't matter to the bottom line i.e. if I can cut my AWS storage bill by 10% and then spend it on random tokens I'd do it.

re-thcon New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

> At some point it's inevitable to just rubber stamp whatever is coming from AI.

To make it worse? AI and even Fable can make things +50% and then -50% in different places. You can trade 1 bug for another.

So just "rubber stamp" doesn't make it better.

re-thcon Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful

> I agree with the take not to bother with a sophisticated memory system. Anything worth remembering should be in docs, guides, source comments, commit messages or tickets. You don't need another layer

That is a sophisticated memory system though -- maybe not to you experienced humans!

re-thcon Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful

> Something about this idea really resonates with certain personality types.

Like ancient people? Because "new oil" whilst I get what it might imply sounds bad to me. Oil has been superseded in many places so "new oil" is like going backwards still.

Reference: data is the new oil is a term coined in 2006.

We're in 2026. See what I mean.

re-thcon Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

> how can they still use claude?

Workarounds aside, it says Claude Code not Claude.

i.e. they are using the CLI running any model. You can for instance run GLM with it.

re-thcon Vite+ Beta

> I think they should find a better name for this project.

Need another plus? Vite++

re-thcon What if AGI is here, but it just actually sucks?

So just arguing over semantics?

Then you want R (real) AGI?

I mean it was AI before and now AGI...

re-thcon Vite+ Beta

> Surely all the time is taken by the tests, not calling the test functions?

Calling tests has overhead. Also knowing how to schedule and parallelize tests with dependencies is not as "simple".

re-thcon Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity

> It seems like Zuck refused to accept owning a boring ad business

Zuck sees a real problem: not owning the platform.

Hence the VR and other attempts. He sees what he has today as a dead end. The fear grips him.

In theory Google and Apple could ban Meta’s apps and it would be game over.

re-thcon Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity

> xAI has shown this to be quite lucrative

Come back when you have actual numbers on dollars spent, interest rates and the time spent.

re-thcon Qualcomm Linux 2.0

Qualcomm aims to sue and monopolize so no sharing is caring for them. They want control.

re-thcon Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

> who are these people and what makes them more qualified than any of you

Anyone can run something and make a web page. These people just do it instead of questioning. Main difference. If everyone asks "how could you" "are you qualified" then we have nothing but gatekeeping.

re-thcon Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

> It's so good at taking underspecified requirements and filling in the gaps with sensible approaches for your project.

At a high level. It misses low level or other non-functional requirements differently so I wouldn't say Opus is just strictly better.

It's also possible that it's just a harness problem more than model.

re-thcon Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Excess AI Compute

Another one bites the dust?

After SpaceX (xAI), now Meta can't find better ways to make revenue than selling raw inference...

Hardware makers win.

re-thcon Claude Sonnet 5

> And Opus 4.8 is still cheaper for a higher pass rate

Unless it spams as much as Opus, I doubt it. Opus 4.8 literally spams text like puke. On a longer run especially if you get cache misses here and there the bulk of the cost is all the extra context it adds.

re-thcon Will AI keep us stuck in 2020 architectures?

> And how many projects are actually doing this?

How many are following any best practices? Whose problem is that? Not AI.

> And if they are, how many are keeping this up to date?

And how many projects use the latest Spring (mentioned in the article)?

Don't blame AI. Blame the humans.

re-thcon WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense

Just fighting nonsense with nonsense.

Is Mythos / Fable good: yes Is it 10x better: no

So this special "Mythos" class especially in security -- what does it even mean? Is it ChatGPT 10 class?

i.e. it is just marketing.

What does banning a model if it is Mythos class mean? Where's the guideline? Security benchmark XYZ reaching 99/100? No.

So China has matched hype with hype. What's wrong with that? You get what you deserve. People are all playing by those same rules this whole hype started with.

re-thcon Will AI keep us stuck in 2020 architectures?

No.

Just create your own guardrails. Lint rules. Hooks. Whatever. AI also keeps training on newer data. We move on.