Antonio Reche

Computer vision + Solar Physics researcher. Indie hacker in my free time.

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[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

Hi there! I'm Antonio, a PhD student with a side project: Paper Pivot. I'm building a universal translator for academic publishing: it's an AI system that automatically reformats your paper to any journal in minutes. #academia #research #phd #buildinpublic

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A call to all entrepreneurs, founders, small business owners in Europe and anyone else who aspires to star a company at some point. This is the moment to act and let your voice be heard on EU Inc.

EU Inc is the proposed legislation to make it easier to start and grow a company across Europe. It is now in front of the European Parliament and also being negotiated by governments.

The objective should be very clear: you should be able to start and grow your company in Europe as your home market.

What this should mean is, I think, at a minimum this:
1, You should be able to start a company online and cheaply.
2. You should be able to have a simple registration that you can fill out by yourself, with secure identity checks built in. You should not be forced to hire and pay a notary for this process.
3. The basic rules should be the same across Europe and should be common. There should be one registry with common rules and you shouldn't have to go to the lawyers of each country to set up different subsidiaries.
4. There should be a simple way to give employees a share in what they are helping you build, through stock options. They should only pay the tax when they sell those shares and when they receive the money.
5. The paperwork should be much simplified. There should be one channel for doing the VAT across borders and use the time saved to do your job and not to do paperwork.
6. The rules should support the entire life of the business; raising money, growing, going public, and also liquidating a failed business should all be done under the European common rules. Opening a bank account in another country, hiring across borders should be seemless.

The European Commission made an initial proposal that was not sufficiently ambitious in my view but that was a useful start: it had online registration in 48 hours for less than €100 and measures to facilitate the taxation of employee stock options. It had some rules on common liquidation of the companies.

In my view it was not ambitious enough because it allowed national authorities to impose further requirements, such as notaries. It was already falling short on tax and employment, but the reforms that the other institutions are introducing are making it even less ambitious.

The draft that is being discussed by the governments eliminates the European company register and replaces it with a website that is just a portal to underlying national systems. This does not improve the creation of companies in any way. They're also eliminating the common procedures to liquidate failed companies, which was very useful because it facilitates the financing of these companies.

The danger in the legislation is that it will require so many national exceptions that the founders will, in fact, end up facing still all the different regimes and it will make absolutely no difference.

What I suggest here is that you write to your member of the European Parliament this week. Tell them about the obstacles your business is facing: the paperwork, the difficulty of giving shares, of raising money across borders. Explain what it costs and why it makes it difficult to create employment. Ask them what they will do to help you to make this legislation useful.
Your MEPs work for you. Here are their contact details: https://t.co/ZKGDwD795c

The MEP leading Parliament’s work is René Repasi. The other political-group negotiators are Axel Voss, Pascale Piera, Mario Mantovani, Pascal Canfin, Sergey Lagodinsky, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Arash Saeidi and Marcin Sypniewski.

Share this with other entrepreneurs. Help make sure that the people writing the law hear from the people that the law is meant to help.

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@GalileoAlmeria, creo que esta noticia te puede interesar!
https://t.co/p5SuIuePOK

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@MaxRovensky Yes, totally agree

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@lateinteraction So true

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@levelsio My father, a very very non technical person, 60+ years old, called me the other day asking which AI is better to organize his job stuff. He told me he had tested Claude and was quite good, but wanted to know if there might be others better. He just prompted "do this x thing".

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@MrHydeDev Ahorrarás tiempo, pero dinero me parece que no 🫣🤣

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@omarsar0 Absolutely true. How you use the model is the true sauce and changes A LOT the end result. Evals should be presented with the harness they were produced. Or, perhaps, use a generic "evaluator harness" than can accept any model and evaluate all of them with that.

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@yyyiiillluuu Oh, this seems cool. I'd have to check it. Thanks for sharing it! Best of luck with this project, seems promising :D

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@jackfriks @Zai_org I mean, I was using Claude Code before, then tested GLM 5.3 and made the change. For me, it gets better or equal results as Fable 5. And much cheaper. No complains with it yet.

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@jackfriks You should try GLM 5.3 (normal and flash). They're awesome models, almost on par with Fable 5, very cheap and they can be used in Claude Code, it's officially implemented by @Zai_org, so you can keep using your workflow with no problem!

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

GLM 5.3: apart from excellence in coding, does it have excellence in humor? omg, it even allows itself to joke around while coding! Kudos for @Zai_org team, great model :) #buildinpublic

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

GLM 5.3 is the first model I encounter that argues with me and never says right away: You're right, I should change... Instead it explains its idea and tries to make its point, defending its reasons and giving away when new ideas are better or preferable. It's awesome :D

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@abacaj Yes! Agree. I've been testing it in my repos for over a week, along with other models, and it's the best performing one! I can't run it locally, so I subscribed to @Zai_org coding plans. Huge thanks to them :) It's a great model!

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@kimmonismus What if NVIDIA is the one behind Ox Alpha? Could it be?

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@sudoingX A tool for researchers: they can automatically format their papers to submit into any journal!

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@kimmonismus Can you imagine if this turns out to be an European model? hahaha that would be truly awesome to say the least 🤣

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@levelsio I've always been an advocate for Linux. Even my brother, who was a closed-minded Windows-guy, zero technical dev knowledge, now it's full on Linux, he's a pro Linux-er, he programs in terminal. He's even installing it for others and asks me tech stuff I don't know. I'm proud :D

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@kimmonismus @synthwavedd You all are wrong. It's a flash European model...

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@omarsar0 It's European... right?

[Antonio Reche @MrReche]

@zephyr_z9 I'll only lose my mind if it ends up being an European model. That'll be a true mind-blowing thing haha 😂