skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Applies to:

> Windows 10 for desktop editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education) x64

> Windows 10 for desktop editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education) x86

> Windows 10 Mobile ARM

> Windows 10 Mobile x86

> Windows Server 2016 x64

It's not clear to me that this document has been updated to reflect this release. Windows 10 Mobile is the successor to Windows Phone 8.1, while the article suggests that this product might better described as "Windows 10 for desktop editions ARM".

From The Verge: "HP and Asus' devices will include Windows 10 S, designed to only run apps from the Windows Store, but users will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro free of charge (for now) to get access to the full desktop apps." https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16737288/microsoft-window...
That article doesn't even pass the standards of a college newspaper.

"Windows 10 is no more secure than Windows 7 — which is to say it is a profoundly insecure operating system. "

You are going to back up your statement with some proof, right?

"but just because Microsoft didn’t botch things as badly as Apple did doesn’t get it off the hook. I mean, what do you call it when Microsoft fixes security holes in Windows 10 that it doesn’t patch in Windows 7?"

Ah, so it's more secure than Windows 7, you mean? And maybe, Apple?

"I’m sticking with Windows 7 on my Windows machines, and I recommend you do too"

You still haven't told me why?

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That said, I hate Windows 10 for one thing: its update process. I am one of those people who almost never shut down their machines, they are either on, or sleeping. That means, I leave my apps open, and I expect them open when I come back. If freakin' windows decided to reboot my computer without my permission, it means it will shut down my VMs dirty, and potentially cause me to lose data in some apps. By far, this is my biggest annoyance with Windows 10.
> Both are (in theory) receiving the same benefits from the Federal Government and should pay the same in taxes.

New York gets about $0.80 for every $1 of taxes paid. Texas gets about $1.50. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...
Not really. Trying to make taxes fit some arbitrary definition of fair is most of the problem. We should be looking at macro effects on our whole economy when making decisions on taxes.
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Right, I don't mean that the bridge congestion is somehow the fault of this scheme, just that it looks like the dynamic tolling algorithm is exhibiting pathological behavior due to circumstances beyond its control.
A tax rise to ensure that the poor do not go hungry or that social security and medicare are funded is one thing. A tax rise designed solely to fund a lowering of the corporate tax rate and targeted at blue states? An entirely different thing.

"It only makes sense to me of states with higher taxes use less federal resources." Which is entirely the case.
What kind of argument is this? This won't be part of your bundle — it won't increase the size of your prod build but can save your precious time.
it is not theft to remove a deduction. state and city taxes should never have been deductible before this. That deduction favored those who could itemize, the well off.

People harp all the time on this site about the plight of the poor, the undeserved, and more but damn you guys don't suck. You are damn generous when it comes to some other person's money but have you pay more and it is Armageddon. Quit bemoaning the wealthy and recognize you are one of them. It doesn't take millions to be wealthy in this country and certainly not billions.

As with the city/state tax issue, all deductible taxes favor the wealthy. This takes an otherwise overly progressive tax system to steals it back by slight of hand. Politicians can show the poor who the exploit "see these high rates" and then bury a myriad of breaks in the system to give back to those who provided the funds needed for election.

Hell i am going to get walloped and I will adjust. I qualify for the 7500 EV rebate for my purchase in 17 and I am glad it is going; though for two reasons the first being the rich don't need help buying cars and the second manufactures late to the game should not get the benefit born out by the early adoption manufacturers.

The Joint Committee on Taxation finds no reason to not favor the bill. Deficits we experience don't come because of tax cuts, it comes because baseline budgeting out paces inflation and GDP growth.

Guess what guys, its time we pony up and pay for what we want. We don't get to pontificate on forums all day long. We have to pay the piper just like everyone else and many of us will benefit from the cut as well as suffer some losses but in the end those on the lower brackets will see nearly all their tax burden decreased and isn't that what we all keep saying we want, to help them up?
but thats what subnets are _for_ nobody in thier right mind runs more than a /22 on a VLAN/partition.

In this case I think the traditional model works well, has excellent documentation, and scale much better than the alternatives, especailly in AWS.
If the cost of housing in the bay area goes down due to this, that could be a good outcome depending on your situation.
You can make the same argument about every single deduction. Texas family makes large donations to Christian churches. Why does a secular family in blue state subsidize that deduction ? Texas has higher property taxes ? Why does a California family with low property taxes subsidize that ? Texas did not expand Medicaid. Which means an average citizen can have higher medical spending ? Why does another state with expanded Medicaid subsidize that deduction ? I can keep going on the myriad of all other deductions. Out of all these, there is a reason only SALT was chosen to be eliminated. It is not some equalizer of burden. It is a political deduction.
Found the MBA/project-lead guy. The moment you start working on management, that's the moment you stopped being a "developer".
> Video encoding is 70% of Netflix’s computing needs, running on 300,000 CPUs in over 1000 different autoscaling groups.

This feels crazy to me. They'll have to encode all their content into 15-20 different formats for various devices/bitrates, but surely they cache the output for each of those so it'll only have to be done once for each show/movie. Compare that to serving content, which happens thousands or millions of times for each stream. This isn't Youtube, there's not much of a "long tail" of content that's only watched a few times but has to be encoded anyway.
There's a proposal for an express lane on US 101 in California, and when they hit the cap the lane will become "HOV only".

I wonder if congestion will ever get so bad that they'll have to start adding tolls for HOV vehicles too.
Does simulating a gold bar turn the simulation into gold?

I feel im going round in circles here. A description of a system, even if that description is "active" (ie., it evolves over time)... is not the same as the system.

I can take a photograph of a mountain. My hand has no mountain in it, but a photograph.

I can describe any system with mathematics. I can give every atom in your body a number for all of its properties, and a location with respect to the centre of the earth and then append all those numbers together to form a massive number X.

Over time because your position and properties change the number which describes you X2 differs from X.

If I start by writing X down, then X2, then X3, etc. then the ink on the page describes you as a changing system.

The ink isnt you. It isnt alive. It's ink.

That is all a machine is. We have replaced ink with electricity and paper with silicon, but it is only correlated with a changing number.

WE perform the translation from this number to something else in the world. The person who reads the ink on the paper is the person who knows what X becoming X2 means as it pertains to you. The paper and ink do not mean anything alone, they are not you and share none of your properties.

When a chat bot says "hi" it is just a change to an LCD screen caused by an electrical fluctuation caused by a prior electrical fluctuation. It is just a new line of ink on the page.

There is nothing thinking, saying, speaking, understanding, "hi". It is just a change to some liquid crystal which fools you as you read it. YOU impart meaning on it when you look at it. It isnt a person, it's just ink.

The most ambitious we can be about machines is that they fool people into thinking they are having a conversation with someone. Ie., that paper shreds with ink phrases on them tumble out of a folder in just-the-right-order as-if a conversation was happening. But it's a tumbling of electric, there is no conversation.
> The counter argument is, why should the rest of the country and generally lower income tax payers be subsidizing the high State taxes, high property taxes, and higher mortgage deductions on your expensive homes?

They aren't. The high tax states generally are net contributors to the federal treasury, the low tax states are generally net drains.
thank goodness that samsung TV's can play from both sources
What does "a Stripe for content management" mean?
AFAIK that's just another way to switch to Custom Mode.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/28/amazon-silk-web-browser-...
But... this tax bill dramatically _lowers_ taxes on people who make a lot more money or have a lot more assets. So sure, this guy is rich relative to an unemployed coal miner. But you're being a little disingenuous by implying that this guy is remotely close to "the rich" who people commonly think of raising taxes on, and doubly so in implying that people who want higher taxes want them for everyone but themselves. I would gladly pay more in exchange for better services and safety nets.
I'm hoping to be able to do that soon. Right now school keeps me busy 8am-1am so there isn't much free time.
You have a very wrong assumption there. Those blue states were already paying more in federal taxes than they were taking in spending. Families in red states already carried less federal tax burden...

This is all a crazy moot discussion anyway, because it's not even a balanced cut - its a cut that put the whole nation into a huge deficit while increasing taxes on labor-based incomes. So some already very wealthy capital owners are getting a very massive transfer.
Which is a really frustrating thing. I have family members who didn't go to college who could not pursue certain careers (or, struggled to advance their careers) because they don't have piece of paper - even if it had nothing to do with the career itself. In tech it has become less of an issue but I would love to see this go away for everyone.

Being able to get a four year degree does not signal that a potential employee is better than someone that doesn't. Especially the way higher education has gone in my lifetime.
Yet this particular reform _does_ tax the rich more. It's mostly those making >$200k that will be hit, and it removes what were basically subsidies for the richest states in the country.
If owning real estate becomes more expensive, there is a very high likelihood that rents will increase rather than decrease.
I'm a cyclist so the first bit was interesting enough. More interesting in retrospect, from a film nerd perspective, is to watch for the moments where you can tell he changed the entire direction of the film. I think i was about 10 minutes in or so when it occurred to me that things were moving pretty quickly if this was going to be a feature length documentary about self-doping.
There's still a lot of Windows devices that run x86 Windows, and new devices still ship with it, mostly low-memory or low-disk-space devices. Thus apps need to support it.
What issues did you encounter? And how can you call a $35 device "expensive"?
Do you whine about every comment you disagree with as racism. Go look at the maps of other countries, you will see a pattern that coasts are richer than hinterland.

Maligning another person's integrity with ease shows your character, or lack there of.
It’s a matter of perspective.

Freedom from what? In this case it’s freedom from regulation.

It’s like hospitals always wanting to cut costs. But it’s never about the patient saving money.
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If you paid state income tax, you should have been able to deduct that at the very least (probably around 6k, or about the same as the standard deduction).
So if a PR firm is working for Startup A and pitches a list that includes Startup A-E, then you wouldn't write about any of them? Or can you tell in advance who is paying the bill?
Why would anyone buy more new tethers @ $1 when they're selling for less than $1 at Kraken?
And you might not be surprised to learn that many people don't think that's good enough.

This is not a new issue, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)
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Hmm, I just found a comment using my same name (rare, but not unique) but an address for what looks to be an abandoned house in the next town over from where I grew up...
Interesting system. That's effectively a sudden massive increase in price to whatever the fine is for an HOV violation. But the fact that it's a fine rather than a traditional price will change the way people think about it.
The $500 million comes from CVS's belief in the profitability of Aetna and the future returns it sees. Aetna would not be worth as much money as CVS believes it is worth if Aetna did not profit so much. And part of its enormous profit comes from denying care to people.
Just to be clear, the article is talking about HOUSEHOLDS making more than 200k, not individuals.

With a National average salary for software developers of $109k(per Glassdoor), a family of 2 tech professionals across the nation will see their tax liabilities significantly increase
There are legitimate criticisms of the bill (e.g. allowing corporations to deduct state taxes, but not individuals, or individual tax cuts expiring but the business ones are permanent).

But putting those aside, I agree with you in principle. Of course the bill hurts people the most who are in high tax states. They want the high taxes, and they got it. Why should the rest of the country subsidize their federal taxes because they are paying more state income taxes? (Actually, there are some good reasons for this, but they should be debated rather than merely dismissing it as a bias against people in those states).

And while I'm not 100% sure, the majority of the population is getting a tax cut - most people could not itemize with a $12000 deduction, and now they're getting another $3-4K ($12K - minus the personal exemptions they're losing).
Thanks for the explanation, but the book I mentioned explains that in detail, over several hundred pages. I was trying to make 2 points

- By the standards of their time, the Crusaders were particularly barbaric. I'm not judging them by 21st century standards, I'm comparing them to their contemporaries in the 12th century, such as Saladin.

- 'Deus Vult' was their battle cry when they engaged in this barbaric slaughter in their successful bid to recapture the Holy Land. It is also used by members of the far right today. They do so because they advocate a similar stance towards Muslims.

Sadly, this has upset fans of Crusader Kings in this thread. I regret it, but I liken it to the Nazis' appropriation of the swastika, a Hindu religious symbol. It sucks that the far right has appropriated what's yours, but you just gotta accept it and move on.
And so is HN, I dare say.
Can you tell me about all the useful features it has which you use? I am just curious.
Howdy, I'm a progressive!

This is actually the one portion of the tax cut that I'd like to see retained... but I am really struggling as to why they wanted to remove the SALT exemption except to punish blue states. The party of states rights just removed the ability for individual states to try and innovate on budgetary matters and optimize spending into certain sectors of their economy they find particularly relevant - repealing this is a federalist policy which doesn't really meld with their messaging.
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CDNs are definitely still a thing. Not so much because of "chance of reaching", but because you can't change the speed of light, and having the content closer to the clients is both faster and cheaper.
> People have been clamoring for more taxes on the rich. Well, this is what it looks like.

How exactly is this a tax increase on the rich?
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Maybe you can point out flaws with the comment?
How Running May or May Not Help the Heart
It sure looks that way if you follow the news, but my webpack config has barely changed for two years now and I'm still getting work done.
Two separate issues -- State and Local Taxes (SALT) are income, property and other taxes collected at the non-federal level. They have been deductible since the creation of the federal income tax. In part, because the federal government recognizes that resources are more efficiently allocated locally. And that is one reason why higher taxed states pay more into the federal government's budget than they receive in benefits. [1]

The Mortgage Interest Deduction is simply a wealth transfer from people who don't own homes to people who do own homes.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...
Spoiler alert: if you make over $200,000 a year, you are the rich compared to most of the rest of the country.

I love that a factual statement is getting downvoted, btw. Get a grip on your frame of reference, HN.
> If we taxes people based on the benefits they receive from the government, then the homeless would pay a fortune.

This is a comical simplification. The public and legal infrastructure in America overwhelmingly helps companies and investors make money. Where would UPS be without public roads? Where would Warren Buffet be without a stable legal framework for investment? That's not to mention the military spending that secures all of these fortunes against foreign aggression.

To claim that the poor disproportionately benefit from government spending is missing the forest for the trees.
And those numbers severely understate the difference since, IIRC, a much larger fraction of Apple's SoC transistor budget is devoted to its application processors.

EDIT: Found an image. More a simple understatement than a severe one.

https://wccftech.com/apple-a10-fusion-cores-bigger-than-comp...
Because they are vastly wealthier to afford a house that costs ~3x the median?
I hope and expect Apple to watch this closely. Playing with the iOS 11 on an iPad pro 10.5 suggests a bit what a Macbook Air might look like in 'appliance' mode with one of their customized ARM processors.

The really interesting bit however is whether or not ARM notebook computers can become a 'thing' for real. There have been a couple of runs at it by people without the resources to do something competitive with the thin and light laptops of today, doing it "for real" has always seemed a bit out of reach.

It becomes more and more clear to me that something like a Chromebook type OS and a walled garden app store is a really attractive proposition for people who don't do development on their machines.
The right answer is to get rid of the deduction. It's regressive (as you point out) and reflected in the costs of housing anyway (people choose the monthly payment they can afford not the house they can afford).
Combined with the Continuum thing for Windows Phone (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum) this would be incredible. You could use your phone as a desktop replacement.

Unfortunately, it seems like Microsoft has given up on Windows Phone already.
Government subsidizes a ton of lifestyles. People with children. People who go to church. People with "pass throughs". People with estates. People with businesses. But somehow income tax in blue state is the target.
If the argument is ever "the government could force X to do Y" then you need to finish your thinking.

If the government taxes mixed coins they will extend that tax to coins where it is impossible to detect. "Prove me they weren't mixed" is just as easy for the IRS to say as "prove to me that you bought at $500/BTC".

If anything, Bitcoin's track-ability is likely going to give it some thin veneer of government acceptance, even if I think that people underestimate how careful the truly evil can be.
I like how they say "may add"... haha, they always add it! I assume they're talking about the GDAX order book but if you watch the live coinbase price data on tradingview.com and try to buy bitcoin on casebase at the exact same time, it's always a little higher on coinbase.com (about 0.5% higher from my experience). I wouldn't mind if they weren't also charging an additional ~4% fee on top of that.
Yes and when you want to sell something important like mineral rights you have to line up behind everyone selling CryptoKitties :)
Thank you for your leadership in many areas and especially this one!

on a side note, I live far out east on Long Island and only have one viable option for an ISP that enables me to work, others (like satellite) are not viable for me to vpn to different clients, is there anything I can do to help increase competition out here so myself and neighbors have alternatives to "Optimum online"?

Thank you again I am very happy to see you on this forum!
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But can they patent the instruction set rather than their implementation? Feels like a repeat of the google java lawsuit.

In fact weren’t the IBM compatible PCs in the 80s doing exactly that?
> "Wow what a coincidence — I switched from Gmail to Fastmail exactly 1 year ago today."

Same, in fact I just got my renewal notice over the weekend, which means either yesterday or today was the day I turned Gmail off for good.

> "I couldn't be happier. I mostly use native clients, but the Web client is a joy to use, and everything I've observed about Fastmail gives me confidence in their service."

I vastly prefer Fastmail's web client to any modern native client, though Claws mail comes close if only for its abundantly configurable interface. I really enjoy the extras with Fastmail too; the Notes and Files apps are perfect for quick access from any device. The fact that their iPhone app is a near perfect mirror of the desktop web client helps too.

> "I never used the Gmail-exclusive features like labels, so switching was pretty easy. I highly recommend it to anyone considering it."

Coming from over a decade of IMAP folders, I hated Gmail labels and found them awkward. Fastmail uses folders and I'm in my happy place with them.

I never thought I'd pay for email service beyond hosting my own, but Fastmail is definitely worth it to me.
sorry I meant 60-90. You need savings to sustain you for like 3 decades and those are expensive decades with all health and care costs.
One of the things I like about OSS and things like Stack Overflow is that in the old days, if I solved a hard problem, I solved it for a couple dozen people I worked with and maybe some folks at my next job. In some cases it made it hard to justify the work because I saved everybody 10 minutes a month and spent a week working on it. Which may be bad math for another reason: if I saved you the most aggravating ten minutes of your month, it may be worth many multiples of that ten minutes to you.

If I put the answer on the internet, then thousands of people benefit. If my work only save you five minutes one time, it still may be worth the bother in the grand scheme of things.

Which is a long way around to my point: this group is curating a bunch of build related modules which means I don't have to pay as much attention. That's not automatically a win (especially if they do a poor job of keeping up, which happens a lot in this space), but it has potential at least to be pretty useful.