skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have commented, the long hours essentially have to do with hazing and conformance vs productivity. It is almost impossible to expect "leaders" that have gone through the same grinder to treat new employees differently.

"I have suffered, hence you must suffer"

For those considering a job at GS, or, for that matter, any job, examining the core culture, and asking about it early in the recruitment process, is a must.
Ew. How about we leave people’s heads alone during a video call.

I think I’d much prefer a compressed view of someones actualy head and pose, to the eerie monster that is created by this alghorithm.

Of course it’s research, and not practically in use yet, but...
I always wonder whether they're super bullish on Tesla or just expect high inflation
> Remember when they totally ignored existing peering agreements and tried to force Verizon to pay for upgrades to pipes that were overloaded because of their traffic?

I recall Netflix's ISP offering to pay the entire cost of the upgrades at at least one of the overloaded peering points. And I recall Verizon trying to mislead the public about where the congestion was occurring (it mostly wasn't internal to their networks, but was at the interconnects to Netflix's ISP).

> Peering agreements, which by the way have been around for decades, state clearly that nobody pays as long as the pipe is used equally. Netflix's bandwidth providers sent way more than they received and refused to cough up for upgrades.

Verizon and other residential ISPs built out their networks in such a way that it was not possible for traffic to be at all close to symmetric. If Netflix had added code to their site to generate artificial upload traffic, it wouldn't have been possible for that to match the download traffic. Why should those last-mile residential ISPs get to use traffic asymmetry as an excuse when they're at least as responsible for breaking the traditions that applied to peering between transit providers?
> "Build Consensus" - hah, the words of an org chart climber.

Not necessarily. You want to convince your team or other teams to adopt a new tool or practice? You need to build consensus.

It's a good skill to have if you want to be able to shape your workplace to your liking. It doesn't necessarily have to involve org chart climbing at all.
It would be more than £10 per hour even if you worked 168 hours a week.
Your calculation is way off. The living wage in London (not minimum for the UK) is £10.85 per hour. That's £45136 at 80 hours a week (the cap they're asking for in the article) and £53599 at 95 hours a week (which they are supposedly averaging now). £90k is a long way to go from there.
> a planned economy

Would goverment incentive be classified as planned economy. If yes then we certainly need one if we are going to achieve all the listed point above.
There's been an ongoing effort for a bit over a year now to make sure the torrents from sci-hub's archive are sufficiently well seeded (specifically, the scimag collection from library genesis, available at libgen.rs). It's about 80TB total, so with current hard drive prices you can maintain your own local copy of all 85 million articles for under $2k. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any tools to usefully browse the collection like what you suggested but it would be great to see something like that.

The main library genesis book collection is already available via IPFS (see freeread.org), so I wouldn't be surprised to see all the sci-hub articles available similarly at some point.
Exactly, no one is too big to fail, and the largest recipients of federal bailout and stimulus money, industries like banking and finance, shouldn't just get windfalls whenever they fail to plan ahead.
Literally on another thread someone(American) was trying to tell me that if you don't make at least $150k/year as a dev you should immediately quit and find another job. I was just like.....are you familiar with the pay levels in the UK lol? It's incredibly hard to cross the £100k/year barrier as a dev, with some very rare exceptions, nearly all of them in the financial industry and down in London(and yes, then you're paying £3k/month for a flat, so I'm not sure it's such a lavish salary as people think it is).
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many of their holdings are small and don't have a lot of trading volume, ARK owns a big share of many of these firms. For an ETF (forced selling and buying based on fund flows) the combination of extremely high valuations and low liquidity can become very, very painful.
i had no idea one could write so much about the unambiguous click menu.

that said, i agree -- the Wordpress top nav bar kills me daily. now i'll look for a fix.
Surely a newly built government seat dream city will come with mobile phone coverage.
I think it's often less about productivity than it is about instilling a sense of allegiance. Certain companies like it when their employees have no life outside of work because they are less likely to cause trouble and more likely to do what they're told.

Management in these places wants to own your time and wants you close so they can keep an eye on you.
We would do underwriting of deals. Prepping spreadsheets, decks, etc. It’s a dollar volume game.

I got out after a few years.
If you remove excessive meetings and other unproductive crap I'd be surprised if median meaningful work hours were above 20h for Soft. Eng.
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Being a knowledge worker I’ve noticed the following when I push beyond 8hrs of focused work per day.

1. Tasks take 50% more time to complete.

2. The probability of screw up increases. And it really shoots up beyond 10hrs or so.

3. Net result, I take more time cleaning up the mess I created than if I had worked on them at a normal pace.

It’s like a over speeding car taking more time to reach the destination because it either took a wrong route or its engine broke down and had to be replaced.
Ah damn, woops. How undo?
good point -- i like way-too-large/unambiguous clickable areas.
Spinning plates.
It’s also really good to have monopolies that can sue to ban municipal broadband.

Like you, I fucking love Comcast and want them to have as much power as possible
It’s getting harder for small studios to compete with big tech (2020)
I'm just constantly curious why the games industry gets so much shit from every possible angle for employing young ambitious people who are willing to put themselves through the grinder to work on something they enjoy, but when the same thing(actually worse, considering most people there actually don't enjoy it and are in it just for the money) happens in finance that doesn't get any coverage whatsoever, it's just "part of the ritual".
> Because the law obviously didn't help stopping companies from doing shady shit

It helped immensely. I work in the financial sector in an EU country, and most institutions in my country are terrified about the GDPR.

The fact that some people will happily operate on the border or even closely beyond the border of law, applies to any other regulation as well.
Cherokee syllabary [1] is interesting itself - it incorporates variety of characters that look like Latin and other Old World scripts letters but obviously have a different meaning.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary
I wasn't talking about how did these two systems come up with their values, but about how similar they are in enforcing them.
They're the junior analyst on a deal rather than a junior analyst, and the client and their boss expect the updates complete by tomorrow's meeting. The banks could certainly afford to train an extra analyst, but a lot of the work is drudgery updating single documents where it's easier to let one half awake person deal with it than divide it between two. Junior analysts don't usually push back on requests, and banks don't ask clients to wait a bit longer whilst they get things ready either.

The salary is high, but not more than two professional jobs for top grads high. They are eligible for bonuses though, and that carrot of six figure salaries is dangled.
I read the full emails. The statements weren't out of context. I don't think it quite rose to the level of 'conspiring to manipulate public opinion' but they were absolutely conspiring to manipulate the data and the conclusions of the "science".

They also lied repeatedly about it, including to Parliament, and generally engaged in all kinds of BS behaviour that would be fatal to people in the private sector - regulators and lawsuits would take down any company that tried those things - but because it's academia and climatology they just ignored the entire scandal and told the world to go fuck itself. And because the media have a massive blind spot for academics, everyone just sort of forgot about it and pretending it never happened.

In other words they were attacked for entirely justifiable reasons, by people who aren't even in politics to begin with.

There's a long retrospective on the Climategate emails here that goes into a lot of background and context, as well as the subsequent fallout. Suffice it to say, when even the Guardian admits the behaviour of these people was bad, it must be really, really bad.

https://www.rossmckitrick.com/uploads/4/8/0/8/4808045/climat...
People have been lying to and manipulating others since the beginning of recorded history. Even mythological figures exhibited deceptive behavior. The Pulitzer prize is named for the creator of "yellow journalism". There's nothing new here.

This reads as "this time is different", an appeal to special circumstances without addressing the crux of the issue, subjectivity & diversity of opinion.

In practical terms this requires "fact checkers" supposedly impartial arbiters of objective truth. We can disagree on philosophy and the nature of man, but this premise is a non-starter for me.
People will die, tesla will bring the full might of their legal team to prove somehow that the driver/injured party is at fault because of some disclaimer. Musk will continue to be heralded as humanity saviour. Kenya will be president.

Innovation is the new Moloch.
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Did lol
> there aren't even any universities in City of London

This is tangential to the main discussion, but London Metropolitan University has a campus in the City, the Guildhall School of Music is there, and there seems to be a campus of Chicago Business School too.
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They said Safari is

> the reason why we can't have nice things like progressive web apps

I.e. implying that progressive web apps are only possible if a specific set of features are supported everywhere. It’s like saying that accessibility is only possible if no users have disabilities.
"we would know which generation we were from." - did you find it useful for that? Or is it just a uniting narrative
I think this is more about the missing possibility to list it in the store
Glassdoor puts Goldman's junior analyst basic salary at just over £50k though, which actually is below minimum wage at the hours quoted in this article...
What exactly are they grinding on? Like, what is the output of their effort?
There was a discussion on fintech and one of the HN users chipped in that he was making 7 figures but at the end of the day he never had time for family/kids and now sitting in huge empty house was reflecting that this was pretty sad way to approach life.
I have a feeling this is the dilemma the article's author found as well. There really aren't many decently paying jobs for someone with an undergraduate biology degree - at least not compared to the number of people with said degrees. So, do you double down and get a graduate degree in hopes of increasing your earning potential?

I found myself in that same situation, with the same degree, and decided it wasnt worth taking on debt for a graduate degree (nor spending the 2-3 years it would have taken). Problem is, while the potential jobs for someone with an advanced degree are better, there are even less of them, and the competition is tough.
I can confirm this running my own company, I work less (albeit, with very high concentration) to achieve more.

When I bring up my concentration, my brain is much faster and I'm more impatient. So I had to buy a very fast computer
What do you mean by the buy-side exactly? Investment funds?
It will never be possible to completely stem the flow of profits from crime to clean money, or from clean money to terrorist groups. But I think the best metric of how well the efforts are working is to listen to the market and look at how much it costs to launder money. IIRC the book Lying for Money by Dan Davies had the figure as high as 50%, which is a pretty darn high transaction cost; if AML efforts didn’t work nobody would be paying it.
And it's questionable if it even proofs the concept.
By removing the line or putting a dash at the beginning of the line. I strongly advise you to do this, so you can cut yourself out of science, which is obviously the right thing to do.
90,000 / 46.4 (52 - minimum statutory holiday) / 80 = £24 / hour.

Minimum wage is £8.72 / hour.

So at a bare minimum (before perks / generous pension / very generous bonus) they are getting three times the minimum wage.

That's still not great, but they are suffering far less than millions of cleaners and other essential workers, not to mention the millions of people on zero hour contracts who are unable to get minimum wage and the thousands of people in forced labour conditions aka slavery (ie migrant Labour).

Which is mostly to say that the condition of most people is a lot lot worse than most of us stop to think about most of the time.
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"Russia-based website"

It's based in Kazakhstan. The US and the UK establishment have so internalized their hatred of the Russian people it's apparently now spilling over onto the Kazakhs. It's ignorance all the way down.

And the BBC doesn't correct this obvious lie. They quote it to absolve themselves of blame, but they don't correct it.
If that's true then why do they have safari? What's the difference in this regard between safari and other browsers?
Money, presumably.
You don’t criminalize behavior because it will happen, but because it could. Net neutrality prevents companies from doing harmful things, like installing data caps and providing preferential treatment to certain data. Those things don’t have to happen, and maybe aren’t happening because the companies think they’d get bad PR. But they could happen, and that’s why you regulate to prevent them.

Perhaps the big kerfuffle was overblown, or perhaps it instead slowed down the plans that companies had (since it was now a provable PR nightmare post-kerfuffle). We don’t have enough data to decide that. We do know that companies are currently allowed to act in anti-consumer fashion.
> In fact, this is the EFF's prime argument for Net Neutrality. [1]

As far as I can see, your link does not support your assertion. I think you're completely mischaracterizing the primary argument for Net Neutrality.

I have never seen anyone assert that without Net Neutrality, speeds would go down or stagnate in general. I have only seen proponents claim that without Net Neutrality, speeds would be selectively reduced or left stagnant.

And the burden of proof is very much on you to demonstrate that lifting Net Neutrality regulations is responsible for speeds increasing, and not other factors such as pressure from Google Fiber and declining costs for DOCSIS 3.0 equipment and advances in WiFi that made it possible for most consumers to actually use download speeds in excess of 100Mbps.

(Also, we should assess the health of the ISP market a bit more carefully. Increasing download speeds don't tell the whole story. How have the major incumbent ISPs done at increasing upload speeds in recent years. How prevalent are data caps, and are they increasing from year to year?)
All I see is a black screen.
yeah, they won't be able to sell when they need to... they act like a small-time investor.
As I understand it PECR does require affirmative consent to use cookies specifically. Often same mechanism is used for data processing bases for GDPR as for PECR consent.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...
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That's a good point. I have no idea what their actual salaries are. I was responding to the suggestion that £90k a year is just above minimum wage when you adjust for the hours worked (which is false).
City of London is kinda weird as its the only place in the UK that companies can vote (as far as I'm aware). its got like 10k actual humans voting there and like 24k votes from companies.
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That's so dumb. You are taking a very complex phenomenon with billions of variables and simulating it with 34 variable MCMC model to justify what seems like overestimation either way. Where's the risks chapter? How have they factored in the black swan events, such as stock market crash? Or just general bubble bursting regarding such highly valued stock as Tesla?
Speculation here, but informed speculation:

I highly doubt you as a non shady actor will be punished because of your server logs as such.

Start selling or otherwise sharing them with ad companies, directly or indirectly and you deserve and should expect a GDPR fine as soon as they can if you are in a jurisdiction where GDPR applies.

Same if you involuntary leak data because of gross negligence: passwords in cleartext, unnecessary data collected and stored and later leaked etc etc

In many cases I understand authorities will even contact companies first and try to guide them toward a compliant solution first instead of fining tjem right away.

That said I wish there were some clarifications given wrt to server logs and IP addresses; running without is in many cases gross negligence in itself.

Basic logging is first year defense against black arts curriculum.
To weed out the non-psychopaths
More hours at work means more deals then the other guy who went home at 5pm.
I guess in finance it's cultural knowledge that this sort of thing goes on, there are not many surprises. The work-life balance of the games industry is not so embedded in our collective consciousness.
> These are typically junior bankers working on M&A/IPO deals.

M&A has always been notorious for the insane hours it pushes on interns and junior employees and most of them use it signalling to land much more balanced job in management consulting or other parts of finance (unless they really want the money because there definitely is money to be made there). The royal track of an internship in audit/large finance department followed by one in M&A then a job at Mckinsey was very much still in the head of some when I was business school student.

Also finance is known to have a peculiar culture and use gruelling first years has a filter. Some consulting companies do it too. I personally find it stupid and therefore elected to work for a more sensible place but it is real however. Still contrary to what another commenter implied this is not a grind. Things become more normal after the first hurdle and these companies reward in a way which is not particularly dissimilar to any other big companies (a mix of making yourself visible and intelligently playing the political game).
I wonder if Goldman Sachs sells tiny violin futures? They sound like a good investment right about now.
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Yeah, we have 40 hours of maximum "standard" work hours in Japan. Additionally, there's some limits for overtime, such as max. 15 hours overtime per week, and 45 hours per month. At my workplace, these are strictly enforced, but I've heard that there's some culture of not reporting one's actual work hours in some companies.
> in London(and yes, then you're paying £3k/month for a flat, so I'm not sure it's such a lavish salary as people think it is).

A £3k/month flat is certainly lavish. Or at least sized for two incomes.

(And even then, probably a nice a place in zone 1. Did that figure come from actually looking for places, or just exaggeration to make a point? I mean, of course you can spend that much and far more, but it's by no means the entry point is all I'm saying.)
Those are definitely different things. Owning a GameStop stock gives you a small ownership and right to their profits (in form of dividends) in real money.

Owning a cryptocurrency means nothing if you can't actually use it as a currency in real world.
> What exactly are they grinding on? Like, what is the output of their effort?

There is a sharp divide between those who bring in revenue and everyone else.

Analysts and associates do not bring revenue. Their work is to idle until a deal is imminent. At that moment, being the team that can immediately whip together materials for a client, that can immediately generate closing documents, that can be the difference between winning and losing the deal. Between tens or hundreds millions of dollars in fees for the firm or zero. Between those intense bursts it's mostly farting around.

At the higher level, more work means more selling. Unless you're in a real bum corner of the market, there is always another deal you could pick up. If you start reaching diminishing returns, empire build--branch out.

One of the biggest breaks I had in my career was moving from a finance culture to an engineering-led one. The finance culture works. But it optimises for short-term results and it optimises for the partners, those at the top.
Gulag? Forced psychiatric internment?
Yeah, by all means, make you employees put in those extra hours, but please pay them additionally for their extra hours fairly. The moral hazard (for abuse) is squarely in the employer's camp if the financial consequence of allowing a culture of 80-100 hours per week does not dent the payroll budget.
Yes but apple users casually happen to ignore that fact when it comes up
The long hours also serves as a sort of hazing ritual that can increase bonding to a particular world-view. If you are a company like GS you know you can pull in the cream of the crop by dangling huge payouts at the end of the apprenticeship period. The apprentices will eat entire pies filled with shit day in and day out until they can't take it anymore and quit. Those who survive are now much more closely bonded to both their peers and upper-management (who endured the same thing in the past) and are more likely to take the company world-view as axiomatic from that point onward. You see this in finance, medicine, elite military units, and more close to home you see it all over the startup world.