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A normal distribution is infinite so there is always a (small) nonzero expected value for any real number, so technically, even for "mean" much larger than zero. However, GP is accidentally reversing the causality, which is incorrect: We say that something follows a normal distribution if the samples we observe fit, e.g. shoe sizes or height, which are clearly non-negative. It doesn't mean that any possible distribution value must occur in the original samples for the population to be normally distributed.

Please link or provide a product name, I've been looking for something like that!

Your post is one big "citation needed". You come across as quite bitter.

Sorry for my low-value comment, but I think it is appropriate here. Doing a psychoanalysis of OP does not really add to the discussion meaningfully. Same applies to parent comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names

> you might end up earning less after tax as a manager than you did as an engineer as your salary increase puts you in a new tax bracket.

This is impossible, even with the very high German taxes :-)

You will keep less of each (EDIT: additional) Euro you earn, but the tax progression is not that broken that getting paid more results in less money for you. There are diminishing returns on hours worked, if that is what you meant, but otherwise it's untrue.

The title is misleading because it says Germany is exploring - suggesting there is anything like a cultural shift/push on a society-wide scale to explore. That unfortunately is not the case.

German work culture as a whole is very much still "butts in seats", working for the predefined number of hours per week with a fixed quota each day, and the Stempeluhr [1] is very much alive even in white collar jobs.

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stempeluhr

Can someone change the misleading title to part of the subtitle? It is "Less work, same money, more happiness and productivity. As of February 1, 45 companies in Germany are testing a 4-day workweek.", which is much more meaningful.

Title makes it sound like there is anything like a concerted effort, whereas these are just 45 random companies. No details on size of those companies, no data on number of employees or fields. I would expect that in particular the traditonal German "backbone" of the economy is not the kind of company amenable to this work week model or even participating in such a study. Example, classic automative supplier with more "blue collar" style work.

The source seems to be https://www.intraprenoer.de/4tagewoche but this is equally opaque.

Overall a weird article with not a lot of original research.

To not have this comment only be a rant, here is some data [1]: There are 3.4 Million companies (definition at link, they need to have employees and taxable turnover) in Germany, with 35 Million employees. That includes small 1-person shops as well as Fortune 500 companies.

Anyone seems to be able to sign up for that study, and without any further details this seems hardly representative. I am very much interested in the outcome of these studies and would probably for myself assume that I can be productive in 4 days as well, but I'm not sure how this gives us usable data.

1: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...

See my sibling comment - you can also click the left button ("Akzeptieren und weiter"), which just is your consent to see advertisement, it's a soft paywall (paying makes ads go away).

Yeah @dang maybe possible to replace the submission link with the original article passed through translate, e.g. https://www-pcgameshardware-de.translate.goog/Internet-Thema... ?

Bosch segments its own market into the "green" and "blue" parts, the latter being for professional use. They're very well-made and costly, on-par and competitive with the other brands you mentioned. But of course they are not in this Power4All alliance thing and are incompatible with the "green" consumer stuff.

Not OP, but the premise is just too naive. He's coming from a compsci deep learning angle and thus arrives at a completely flawed model for how neurons interact and "compute". Not that we have a model that even explains this theoretically yet, but it makes no real sense to talk of Brain FLOPs in the way he does. It's borderline cringeworthy that this is upvoted so high.

The article was really interesting for my developing work, but at the final conclusion I felt as if he oversold it as a tool to diagnose system problems: The issue was that he did not restart the database after tuning readahead, right?

So instead of the "have you tried turning it off-and-on-again", which takes next to no time, we venture off into tracing kernel code?

Just as an aside on one of the points they try to make (not about residential internet access):

"Imagine the Director of Public Works using her smart phone to reschedule all the sprinklers in the city with just a few clicks."

This makes me really uncomfortable. I think infrastructure needs to be physically separated from the public networks. Everything else just asks for somebody to cause mayhem, un- or intentionally.

It should read the other way round - Julia, Numpy, especially Matlab have array operations like Fortran 90, since they are designed by people from that background.

The problem with Fortran is interoperabality with other libraries; if you leave scientific computing, you're basically out of luck. Writing a GUI is just not going to happen. It is really fast, but it is also not as easy for prototyping since it is also compiled like C. Finally, Fortran does have the kind of stigma coming from older versions like 77 - and it's still really easy to write REALLY bad and unmaintainable code with it if you're not minding the newer language features. Especially OOP (since Fortran 2003) feels a bit tacked on.