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robryan··on Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently
Yeah I think most people would agree that a new employees first week would usually be more productive in the office with someone sitting next to them helping.
robryan··on Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently
To look at it another way, if the money saved from commuting is put into home office setup everyone should eventually have something decent.
robryan··on Investors are happy to pay premium for tech, but not for AI
Probably the same with AI, the short term hype cycle being too early for the vast majority of companies.
robryan··on Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
All things that would be more efficient if they just had a proper UI for them.
robryan··on Sourcegraph is no longer open source
It seems great across an org now. I can quickly answer the question of is anyone using something across 1000 repos.
robryan··on Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law
Seems like this will be much worse for the media companies. It isn't like most people who clicked on news while casually scrolling their feed are suddenly going to start going to all these news sites direct.
robryan··on Tell HN: Interview take home assessments without feedback are frustrating
4 year degree unfortunately is basically a neutral signal. Maybe if it is top scores from a top tier CS college it might be enough to be a positive signal in itself.
robryan··on Tell HN: Interview take home assessments without feedback are frustrating
It is also going to be very hard to stand out on them without taking extra time because like it or not for a top company the competition is going to be spending that 2-3x time. At least in a technical interview the problem is time boxed so that the other solutions you are being compared against also only got 45 minutes.
robryan··on John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)
Yep and I am going to get more done in 5 days than 4. Maybe this doesn't play out over a large group but I just find it hard to apply those articles about the 4 day work week actually being more productive to my personal experience.
robryan··on John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)
He is only arguing against the idea that after a certain number of hours productivity becomes negative.
robryan··on Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
Maybe they need better ad tooling and promotion of it. Probably big improvements to be made just in getting enough ad inventory to show something remotely relevant to a user.
robryan··on Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
This seems easy, you have limits per client per user.
robryan··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
The whole thing was just to illustrate the point that he thinks the Apollo API access is worth nowhere near $20 million a year in opportunity cost.
robryan··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
Yeah, I'd expect a lot of power users on the 3rd party clients are generating a lot of the content and doing free moderation that produces the product they can get the masses to use via the website/ official app.
robryan··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
I go into the office once a fortnight and the commute takes 2 hours out of my day. If it was 5 mins away I'd maybe have a preference to up that to once a week, maybe a bit more of it wasnt open plan.

I think there is certainly benefit in being in the same physical space as the rest of the team on occasion. I don't think it has to be often though, even the kind of once every 6 months to a year thing some fully remote companies do might be enough to make a difference with team building.

robryan··on Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets
With Bitcoin you have to think in terms of the exchange rate. To the extent that you can buy things in it most of that would be based off a dollar conversion. I doubt you can buy much denominated in Bitcoins at a stable price.
robryan··on US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance
Those products elsewhere would also be unregistered securities.
robryan··on Japan’s government will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training
Yeah, if the end result is that the majority of Google searches are answered by a llm trained on their index can they really claim that the whole thing is fair use?
robryan··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
There is a middle ground where they only audit the ads on the big clients. If you are say a top 10 Reddit client by usage it is going to be hard to get away with not showing the ads.
robryan··on Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT
Python seems to suffer from this more than other languages. I guess because it is a popular beginner/ teaching language.
robryan··on Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT
It would be fair to say though that there wouldn't be an order of magnitude more data to train a future version with.
robryan··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Still have to be good at hiring those people that are good at hiring. And giving them the funding, culture and vision to succeed.
robryan··on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
There was a time where people questioned if 33 of them packed in like this would work at all. Pretty impressive that it does and survives multiple engine failures.
robryan··on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
Hopefully the data will work that out. Raptor 1 seemed to have quality control issues in that some percentage of engines would fail, hopefully this isn't also the case for Raptor 2 or at least can be worked out.
robryan··on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
I think it is a bit premature to assert that the launch pad caused the engine failures.
robryan··on Substack Notes Launched
Maybe their audiences are smaller. People that depend on their large reach on Twitter are going to be much slower to move on than those without audiences.
robryan··on Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu
A lot of it can be disabled. I am indifferent to it, it is still the best OS overall for games and I just boot it up for games.
robryan··on Former Meta staffer reveals she had to ‘fight for work’
Not everyone wants this though. Many people, especially when first starting out, would prefer some tasks to be assigned to them.
robryan··on Amazon doubling down on return to office
Such a silly policy, if they have a number in mind for acceptable annual leave just make that the policy.
robryan··on FDIC – SVB FAQ
Is it really just panic though? If their assets marked to market were of greater value than their liabilities there would be no reason for a panic in the first place.
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