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This was before the power button function was fulfilled by the OS.

Rather, closing the button circuit (ie, pressing and then releasing) will directly shut off power on the motherboard, the OS cannot prevent this.
I noticed last winter in Seoul. I could barely use my iPhone 6S Plus outside. I had to regularly walk in stores and blow on its back to warm it up. Super annoying when it turned off at the peak of a mountain and I couldn't turn it on until I was half-way down.

It doesn't tell you why it turns off either, I thought the battery was dead when it started regularly turning off around 20-40%
Ask HN: What monitor setup do you prefer for writing code?
Over the past few years I've seen a number of recommendations for multiple monitor setups, and I'm curious if any rough consensus has emerged concerning number of monitors, their arrangement, size(s), and orientation(s).

Also, is a laptop (and/or it's screen) incorporated in this setup when sitting at your desk, or do you use a desktop computer?

UPDATE: How does your use of virtual desktops interact with your monitor setup?
I know right? Back in the day my iPhone 4s would almost always shut down on my way to university in winter. It was a 30 minute walk in cold, windy Quebec weather, but my S7 does not have this problem. Why is this news?
Designed by Apple in California.
How frequent is it? I've seen it happen to a couple of friends this year and the temperature was barely below 0 Celsius. It must be worse up there.
Impressive. I imagine lots effort has been put into making the user interface as clean as possible.
It's a pleasure to fiddle with the parameters and see the impact on the curves.

The only downside (for me at least) is that I live in UK.
And my pension plan is not in $$$.
Straight from the article:

"Jeremy told Who, me? that his mate asked to be relieved, as he was in a bit of pain. Those requests were denied due to the risk of the power going off and also out of a desire to make the poor chap suffer for his error."
(For a mostly-Python shop, I'd consider using [Search domain github.com] https://github.com/waf-project/waf or scons.org)
This is nothing new right? I learned the first day I went snowboarding with my iphone that it was useless to bring with me... at least without some thick rubber case.
Needs (2013) here. Bookofhook is a really good blog though!
iPhone also turns off it gets too hot. I left my black iPhone in my car's cup holder once while the sun roof wasn't being blocked and I picked it up and after it cooled down a bit turned right back on.
This really depends on the location. Many locations that are not generally flat floodplains (or glacial plains? IANAGeologist) don't have enough soil for this purpose.
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Thanks for getting back to me and thanks for your amazing work. Seems POCL doesn't support a few things: http://portablecl.org/docs/html/features.html

I'll need to dig around a bit more. The OpenCL drivers are a rather confusing mess (especially on the open source side of things)
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It does look like a cool service, though!
Holding for 5 secs is an ACPI function, ACPI was first released in 1996, so having systems without it around in 1999 wouldn't be surprising.

I've learned coding on such machines, they're quite fun. Easily recognized by the computer requiring a manual powerdown after the OS has shutdown (Win95 showed a message ala "You can powerdown the machine now")
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You call it suffer, others call it corrective training ;)
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Since the 90s?? That's very impressive if true. I remember reading about a proposition to do this for cars years ago, before any talk of self driving vehicles. A car would lock in behind a professional driver vehicle such as a truck or bus and match the turning and braking. I didn't think the tech existed though
and what if the tape comes loose?
I'm a PostgreSQL newbie [1]. From the discussion below, it seems that most of what's being addressed [2] is only really relevant in cases where there are really long-lived transactions. So a better-behaved system in which the transactions are of fleeting duration wouldn't see as much benefit because they don't suffer much from the problem.

Am I understanding that correctly?

[1] Our DBs are currently all SQL Server, but due to licensing costs, we're going to do all new stuff in pg, and over time, migrate the legacy stuff.

[2] I see there are other across-the-board benefits from e.g., smaller tuple headers; I'm talking about the main thrust.
Indeed. In earlier iOS versions the warning message was 'it's too hot' even when it was too cold. I always thought that might be from developers in California maybe not considering the cold-case.
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Not too surprising. Definitely happened to me on the summit of a 14er in the Colorado Rockies last year. I was glad I had my DSLR as well as my iPhone 7...the Canon had no problems (it was only about 30F).
California has snow.
one of the issues with the info about Steele that has come out is if he had been'employed'or rendered services to the FBI while also doing the same with MI5 then some rather serious laws were broken.

I'm sure with today's state of the rule of law it'll easily be swept aside.
This has been happening already for at least the past 4 winters. This was pretty common knowledge, right?
Regarding Gazelle, yes, the CI would break early if it detected a none porcelain repo after running Gazelle itself. I think others may have configured their editors, but for me the occasional 30+s run time (and as mentioned in some workflows 3-4 mins) on file save - plus the already creaking VSCode plugins was too much to bear.
It seems like truck convoys are a less efficient reinvention of trains. I'm still surprised they didn't take off in the States, though, since our rail infrastructure is pathetic. Maybe it only works now because Uber can burn $1B a quarter.
> There's a reason Meson is winning the latest build-systems war:

What do you mean by winning? I haven't heard of Meson until the last few weeks, and I haven't seen it consumed by any open source projects on GitHub, although my search biases more towards JVM things anyways.

> it only depends on python3 & ninja

I don't see how depending on both Python3 and Ninja is any less dependencies than the JVM. Python3 isn't really available by default on most distributions (maybe that is changing soon), so there is still the overhead of installing it, right? Public CI systems like Travis CI and Circle CI have images that make having a JDK easy.
Probably more a power quality issue. It is amazing how inconsistent the flow of power is in most people's homes. In large because it didn't need to be consistent in the past.
For those concerned with jobs to be eliminated, it might not be as big a problem as we think for the trucking industry.

"Over the next 10 years, he said, we need to attract almost 900,000 new people to the industry.

Demographics is a big part of the problem. ATA’s research arm, the American Transportation Research Institute, recently updated its demographic data on drivers and found some 57% of drivers are 45 or older. Only 4.4% are 20-24 years old, noted Rebecca Brewster, president and COO of ATRI."

http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/drivers/news/story/2017/...

In addition, there will still be much need for humans to take care of the maintenance of the trucks and manipulation of the cargo over the next couple decades. So there will likely be a significant number of truckers still employed, perhaps with increased productivity.

Also, certain other jobs will create large increases in demand for labor over the upcoming decades, in particular home care for the elderly and, if we get politics right, better & more individualized education for the young.

(A reminder) Lump of labor fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

---

Added in response to some comments below:

Yes, there will be challenges particularly regarding the distribution of benefits from increased productivity. The share of wealth garnered to capital holders will likely increase. People in labor force who have the skills to develop and maintain automation systems will certainly benefit. (That is why education and (re)training are crucial.) The rest may enjoy some, but probably not most, of the larger pie created by advanced technology.

However, the economic pie will be enlarged and there will be more to share. How the fruits of technology will be distributed will depend to a large extent on negotiations and politics.
Of Course they do. My iPhoneX dies often these days to NYC weather. Was planning to go the Apple store to find out why.
Nowadays holding it for 5+ seconds still turns the system off, I wonder if this is a BIOS or a hardware configuration. Probably it's the PSU's logic, to power off if the 2 pins are shorted for more than 5 seconds.

On old AT systems (the ones where Windows 9x would show "It is now safe to turn off your computer"), one could actually press and hold the power button and the system would stay running. And when you're bored you can also quickly move your finger off the button and jab it down again (this would flip the switch back to on), and if you're quick enough, the system would not see that there was a power interruption.

Indeed the old AT power button was a mains (120V) switch, with thick cables going from and to the power supply unit.
Truck companies avoid this kind of thing because it's expensive to maintain pools of short-haul drivers at either end of the transport link. If you are willing to assume those costs/risks, you can already send freight by rail, which is an order of magnitude more efficient on fuel, and sometimes even a little faster.

The reason you pay for long-haul trucking is that you want to have the driver _already on hand_ for the two short-haul trips at either end of the journey, navigating complex issues and handling cargo loading. The downside is that you have to pay the driver for the over-the-road portion. The upside is that there's zero chance of a driver not being available, and zero chance of the driver being left idle waiting for the long-haul transport to arrive.

The only novelty here is that Uber is the one paying the pools of short-haul truckers on either end, and assuming the risk that they will sit idle. (They are, of course, not going to tell us if it is unprofitable!)
Yes, pretty much anything that innocently announces your intent to put it in writing somewhere, and gives them an opportunity to back off and pretend the conversation never happened will do.
The instructions on this page offer "Use iOS devices where the ambient temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F)."

Hopefully Apple is just being cautious and giving a range where they're confident no one will have problems. But if not, that's a pretty narrow range. I've had problems with music players and Android phones down at <5F, certainly, but <32F is the one part of this that looks like an Apple-specific issue.
This is probably such an old system that it has a power button that is not connected to the motherboard but is directly between the mains power and the PSU. In that case releasing the button would mean that the server is just depowered just like you hold the button for a few seconds on a modern system.

This is also why those computers said "It's now safe to disable the power" after shutting down.
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Twitch provides a good solution to this in someways.

It's highly interactive, especially with IRL channels, and the options for interaction are following, subscribing (which is following but with a $$ donation per month + perks), and chat.

Many streamers have links in their chats automatically blocked, and there's a good variety between small streamers with sane chats and streamers with hundreds of thousands of viewers who's chat is much more similar to Twitter's reactionary dynamic.
Since I started Wim Hof method, I'm more immune to cold than my HTCOne. ( I have an old phone, I know )
This is a woefully optimistic viewpoint: when the technology is ready there will be layoffs. IMO.

These companies aren’t slow-playing their hand to avoid layoffs, and it’s a race to see who can perfect the technology first.
Nice! I have used http://calculator.moneyforsomething.com for years, I may have to try yours out the next few "spreadsheet days" I have at home. :)
Makes me realize how much I take quality of life features in modern servers for granted. We don't need to be physically present to reboot servers, eliminating the possibility (well, mostly) we will power down the wrong one like this - even if the OS is completely unresponsive there's lights out management that can be used to remotely manage power to the system. For the times that one needs to do physical maintenance on a server a blinking light can be toggled through the LOM interface to identify the machine, you can have the hostname display on a little LCD on the front panel too.

It's really amazing to see how far computing has come in just the past two decades.
There is a rather similar (maybe same but changed to protect the not-so-innocent?) story on the daily wtf; http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Trauma-Center
My guess is the point of this video is to paint a picture of AI as really pretty boring and nothing that much different for the driver.

This is a tactic to avoid pushback from the public / truck drivers.

This is an attempt to control the narrative on what autonomous shipping is going to look like.
When it's -30, I don't even try to use my phone. I keep it in my pocket close to my body with the hopes that my body heat will keep it warm enough for it to work if I need it.
It depends on the type of work for me.

I am super productive on a Dell 34" widescreen for Xcode work where I have Xcode and the iPhone simulator next to each other. Or when I have to write documents and can have three browsers side by side.

Multiple displays have never worked well for me. Too much to look at. I prefer to work on macOS and use different Spaces for different contexts. I disable the 'smart spaces ordering' and just three-finger swipe between a bunch of fixed spaces I have setup.

On the complete opposite side of this setup .. my most productive Go or C hacking has been on a small laptop with a fullscreen terminal or emacs window with the font size set to 15 or 17 or so. Nothing else on the screen, just code.
I've never had a problem with my phone when it's been below freezing out.
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this looks interesting (although I am not to keen about cryptocurrencies myself) however I navigated your site and eventually I ended up to a link that says "Read More on Medium". I wanted to do so. but it did not send me there.
I live in Canada, and this is not news.
I think some people still need this attitude. For instance if their ethnic culture or heritage is undergoing a process of repression and erasure. Like say the Kurds in Turkey or the Rohingya in Myanmar. And there are still groups who experience this in the west, like black or indigenous people.
Just put your phone in an inside jacket pocket, it'll be fine.
> Even so, there is still "noise" in that you'll see the same article surface multiple times

For a while that was my benchmark for what was worth reading if I saw an article surface more than once it was possible of interest to multiple circles of interests rather than one, and likely worth the time to read. Of course, that was the time before sites like Buzzfeed/Upworthy and the general expansion of a culture of writing articles specifically for reshare virality.
Ask HN: Jobs in 2018 other than A.I, Blockchain or Virtual Reality
Hello HN! I have about 6 years of programming/engineering experience and a CS degree. I'm looking for a career move but the only ones that are attractive ($$$, perks etc.) are if the position is in the fields mentioned in the title above. I'm a strong believer of not following the hype cycle so I don't see myself doing any of the ones mentioned in the long term.

FWIW, I spent >1 year researching and building projects in each of the fields and nothing has particularly stood out for me to work on, day in and day out. I will use an ML/DL algorithm, unity plugin or ethereum in my project someday but I don't see myself working as a niche engineer in these fields.

Management is an option but I'd prefer to stay an engineer. What are some of my other options?
Same here. Depending on the temperature, I have to move it to a more internal pocket to keep the battery warm. Lithium batteries do not like cold.
$100k for a complete end-to-end IPR is at the bottom of the market. You can find it, but $2-300k is more the norm.
Even if uncommon, monitoring for fraud is certainly a good selling point. It gets clients to trust you.
Many other languages offer similar functional APIs for querying collections, here is C#'s 101 LINQ Examples rewritten in different languages:

https://github.com/mythz/swift-linq-examples
https://github.com/mythz/kotlin-linq-examples
https://github.com/mythz/clojure-linq-examples
https://github.com/mythz/java-linq-examples
https://github.com/mythz/dart-linq-examples
https://github.com/omnibs/elixir-linq-examples
http://templates.servicestack.net/linq/

Java 8+ has since improved with their Streams API. The primary benefit that differentiates LINQ apart is that you can easily capture the Expression tree of the LINQ expression and rewrite its intent to apply to other sources, commonly used in LINQ -> SQL to provide a Typed Expression API for generating equivalent SQL to run on an RDBMS.
> Does Trump make America a bad place for tech?

Yes?
> Every time I see "VAT is regressive" nonsense it's always based on misunderstanding. Yes, investments are not taxed but that's ok

There you provide one example yourself. Another is all consumption achieved by moving your consumption to somewhere else with low or no VAT.

I've done the math for my own expenditure from back when I didn't earn much to now, and the difference is stark.
Ask HN: Which Linux distro you use, and why?
This was before the introduction of ACPI, which is what makes that possible. Prior to that, switches in PCs operated more like a latching switch than a momentary switch (regardless of whether it was actually a momentary switch or not), so it was the action of releasing the button that would either send the signal to shutdown, or physically break the circuit supplying power to the computer.

This is where the old "It is now safe to shut down your computer." screens of Windows 9x/NT 3 came from. http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/286/950/e05...
I've seen people with 30, 40% batteries iphones die for no apparent reason. My samsung in the same temperature not shutting down. Theres plenty bad things to say about apple. This one i can confirm
Yeah I went skiing with my new Pixel 2 last Christmas and couldn't get it to stay on long enough to record a video. Doesn't seem very deveice specific. My sister had better luck on her older iPhone, but on the coldest day neither of us could use our phones outside for very long.
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Definitely. Ozone is a significant irritant (although it also has an "air freshening effect", see air ionizers), to produce significant airflow I believe you'd need very large electrodes, which would produce lots of ozone. The electrodes need to be large because the voltage is limited by air's breakdown voltage, so you can't just pump up the voltage like you can (for the most part) just increase a fan's velocity.

For lack of friction/bearings a magnetic bearing fan seems like a much better option. The strength of this technology is the great exhaust velocity, which is great for space applications.
There's something about reading a blog in monospaced font...

Enjoyed the article very much. The macOS / Linux / Windows switcherooney debate has been going on for years with me. The new MBPs make it an easy choice but Linux on the desktop (T470s recently purchased) makes me less productive than macOS on a 2015 MBP.

I've switched away from this MBP no less than 4 times to 4 different Linux laptops and each time have come back after roughly 1 month. It sickens me (I work for Red Hat so FOSS is quite deeply ingrained) to work on a Mac every day instead of respecting freedoms but sometimes you just need to get on with it.
I am not sure how much of that equipment is legislated. The air fittings for example are of a type I have never really seen elsewhere. They have been standard in the trucking industry as long as I have known (Oldest truck I have been around was from the 70's)

While you could develop a way to robotically latch those it seems like it would be easier to redesign the fitting.
I was briefly a PhD student in government at one of the schools mentioned herein, and it made a big splash in the field when Blattman & Dube moved. A few notes.

1) Robinson/the institute using its resources to lure two rising stars rather than established names is par for the course (though giving them named professorships so early in their careers is unusual, I think). I doubt the Pearsons are up on how such things typically operate.

2) The number of people who are both "senior scholars studying conflict resolution" and "researchers doing data-driven, rigorous work" might be in the single digits, or an empty set. The people who come to mind are mostly in their 40s, which is mid-career.

3) I personally hope the Pearsons win their lawsuit. First, giving to a wealthy university is really bad from an effective altruism POV, and if this kind of acrimony discourages such donations, and if subsequent substitute donations create higher utility, then that's great. Second, if universities only accept gifts whose conditions they are capable of fulfilling, I would hope for less administrative bloat. Or, just as possibly, the Pearsons' winning won't have the desired effects at all, who can say.
If you look at the manual the other devices probably have similar specifications.