skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is will the cavity system allow water to penetrate to the inner leaf which is bad and will cause internal dampness.

Cavities can be carefully partially filled with some type of insulation which allows the water soaking through the brick to evaporate and drain back out.

The standard technique is to use blown in EPS beads which allow for drainage downwards, reducing the chance that any water loading will make it through the insulation layer and to the inner leaf of the wall.

Problems with cavity insulation are often caused by:

-Treating walls which have a large amount of debris in the cavity, leading to water bridging

-Over-filling cavities which also leads to water bridging

-Treating walls with very large amounts of rain exposure, especially to driving rain for extended periods of time since this will lead to saturation of the cavity insulation system which may be unable to dry for months at a time. These walls should be externally insulated and clad instead.

In the UK context for example, houses in Wales and parts of the English South coast, the whole Southwest, the East of Scotland, and most of NI are in zones 3 and 4 in terms of wind driven rain exposure.

In zone 3 and 4, installers are required to carry out an assessment of site conditions and of cavity thickness as well as exterior wall finish. Older houses might have 50mm cavities, new properties often have 100mm or 150mm cavities. Obviously that reduces the changes of water soaking through.

Approved Document C allows a full fill of insulation for a 75mm cavity on a fully rendered wall and on a 50mm cavity if clad with rain impervious material but requires 150mm for bare masonry.
Instead of doing this madness with complicated queries, I always advise to split complicated queries into many smaller simple queries and then merge the results in the code. This way you don't need to debug the queries as all of them are very simple SELECTs and the code that merges the results is one or two for loops.
Reading that kind of opening statement makes me more become aware of what I do in my life.
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7B in an all-cash deal
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard in a deal said to be $68.7 billion to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device
Daughter and I both had covid last week. Omicron is gonna get everyone. There's no way to flatten this curve. At least it had the decency to hit its peek in January, after full time workers got their sick time replenished for the year.
Well, I can only speculate, not having tried.

It could be that the farmers & handlers already know the main suppliers and they're satisfied with them: low prices, good service, acceptable quality. And they're not looking for even lower prices.

If you have a monopoly and you've ridden the learning curve far enough that you're making a good profit while not pissing off your customers, and the market is pretty static, you're in.

But I could be wrong.
Yeah, if Springer would have won, it could very well have meant that running a anything from Lynx to a screenreader or even a broken (or old) CSS parser would have been illegal. Ridiculous premise.
Additionally, only 23% of TSMCs revenue comes from their most cutting edge 5nm process as of the most recent quarter [0]. Everything else is 7nm or larger, which Intel is capable of doing today. In the scenario where Intel remains a major node behind TSMC, there is still a lot of fab business they could pick up.

[0] https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1481581119740989440/ph...
Discovering Paxlovid
Unpopular opinion: it's not a social safety net if people stay on it as a lifestyle.
> "workers are getting sick" doesn't imply any sort of blame.

Indeed.

Instead the headline is "workers are calling out sick in droves".

[EDIT] gruez noted below that the original post was based on an error, please don't punish their Internet points too much.
Unfortunately, the study didn't even try to answer the titular question. Instead, it looked at how to trick people to think home assistants are trustworthy. They're studying how to fool and convince people, instead of how to regain some semblance of control or trust over our devices.
This is an excessively strong claim, one was started by the grandson of the founder of the other.
That would be short sighted.

Anyone that takes a tax deduction on what they feel is a business expense alerts the IRS to look for a tax payment from the recipient.

So it doesn't matter what medium the payment occurred in. You have no idea what the individual nodes in your professional graph reported for their benefit.

Get a CPA if you want to level up your understanding and advantages in society. A firm, not "your friend that does taxes" or the person with a cardboard e-filing sign on their window above the air conditioner.
In spite of appearances, I'm not sure if they went with existing USPS web resources, at least on the frontend. Looks like custom build using a very typical modern managed AWS services stack. In any case, interesting new state of the art for government, compared, let's say, to the HealthCare.gov launch.

At first I thought it would just be a new SKU in the USPS.com website. But it looks like they rolled something custom, using CloudFront, S3, Route53 (two new domain names, special.usps.com and special-api.usps.com for POSTing the order form JSON to), API Gateway (and probably Lambda and DynamoDB):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQP9G1cWiICGOoBA...
I'm back at work today after being off for a week with COVID-19, and I'm lucky that I got some tests at CVS when I could.
> A million small Etsy shops is a ton of money.

Sure, but this accepts the premise that a million small Etsy shops are worth the government's time, which protects the 0.1%, which is why this argument exists. To quote one of my favorite blog series:

> When they talk about raising taxes on the rich, why do they pick a "low" point and push it higher? Should the highest rates be at $250k/yr? $300k? Another way of doing it, which is precisely why they cannot do it, is start at the top and move down. "We need $1T. Ok, top five guys pay 90%. Not enough? How about top ten guys pay 90%. Not enough? Top...." I'm not advocating this or any other policy, not my place, I am pointing out that doing it the way it's done protects the 1% by letting [everyone else] act as human shields. They take the bullets, the unknown mega-rich take tinted window rides to the Hamptons. During those tumultuous 80 seconds of OWS [...] the majority of the personal attacks were against people who made <$300k, not >$50M. It's easy to hate, and so the media nudges you in the wrong direction.

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta...
>Saying that TSMC relies on ASML and Zeiss is a bit reductive. If those were the ingredients of semiconductor success

I never said this at all.

All I am saying is that the supply chain is complex and that to say TSMC is the sole monopoly holder of semiconductors is very very inaccurate.
The framing of "calling out sick" instead of "getting sick" is what sort of implies some blame for workers. It isn't a super strong connotation, but it does exist.
Honestly, there are so many games these days, I no longer notice when something goes exclusive.

I hear Horizon: Zero Dawn was great. Didn't play it. Didn't pick it up when it stopped being an exclusive because it was no longer new by the time it hit PC.

My dance card is so full of Steam Early Access that I don't even have time for exclusives these days.
I think what's happening is that initially a node is more expensive, because of consolidation of the market and supply/demand amongst all of the fabless customers until capacity fully comes up. Once we're back into steady state we see the traditional economics of $/transistor falling.

That sort of coincides with TSMC having competitive, close to leading edge nodes (so the 28nm timeframe) which would line up with the rumor. The information simply hasn't been updated over the timeframe of the node. Previous to that the cost of the node was pretty fixed as long as someone like ARM cared about, now there's a lot more economic effects from the increased buyer competition that heavily changes final cost over time.
Theres no speculation on WoW, it has been dying since Cataclysm which was released a decade ago.
> As a thank you to workers who have been putting in their hours and then some, MOM's introduced a $2 per hour bonus for all employees who complete their scheduled shifts within any pay period.
Disallowing corporations from putting their earnings in off shore banks and then taking low interest loans to pay for stuff in the US against their off-shore holdings. As an example.

I.e. close all tax loopholes, and make the tax code more sensible, so that you're not forced to cheat or end up uncompetitive.
You don't need Congressional action - the laws never changed, the definition of the courts did. Biden is appointing federal judges faster than even Trump did, so the opinion of the courts may be shifting very quickly.
There is no "third way". End-to-end encryption means no one other than the sender and the intended receiver(s) can access the decrypted messages; full stop. That includes the social media companies and the government. This obviously also precludes hacks like subverting the client software on either side to report back on the content of the messages (i.e. Apple's implementation)—if the user can't trust their client not to deliberately leak details about the message then they don't have E2EE, since someone else's agent has been placed in the communication path.
It's entirely possible to trust something to work one way (e.g. keep a trivially restorable backup of previous state) when you do one thing with it and not trust it to do the same thing when you do another thing with it (especially if it's something you do infrequently or have never done before). The advantage of cp compared to git is that it only does one thing (more or less), so you don't have the potential for "doing things you're unsure of" in the same way as git.
The rapid tests have a very high false negative rate regardless of variant, but a very low false positive rate. They should not be trusted as proof that you do not have COVID, only as proof that you do have it.
Well there are volunteer groups that add extra packages to these distros and build images for them (mobian -> debian, alarm -> arch, PMOS -> alpine.) I think a lot of it will get upstreamed to Debian (if it hasn't already.)

On mine I run PMOS configured nearly the same way I have my other computers configured (same WM and everything.)
I have been intrigued by the idea of visual coding tools for many years, but these kind of tools have always disappointed me. They remind me of the system used to teach small children to program in the programming language Scratch, see [Scratch].

I prefer to "visualize" my code as manipulating a set of logical assertions that characterize the state of the computation, ultimately reaching the point where the state of the computation's properties satisfy the requirements. Somewhat like that explained in [Gries1987] and [Dijkstra1976]. Visual tools are just too coarse to capture the details necessary to ensure correctness or real-life requirements.

While UML diagrams sometimes help to make sense of a complex set of OO Class relationships, this is far from how I normally work with the meaning of code in my head while programming.

[Scratch] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)

[Gries1987] https://www.amazon.com/Science-Programming-Monographs-Comput...

[Dijkstra1976] https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijks...
These are taxes that are already owed.

Why are you in favor of people cheating on their taxes?
Many of them on launch day too, instead of waiting 6-18 months for a sale
I'm having the opposite experience. I dropped probably $400 on games over the holidays and found three games I wanted to play.

I used to make games, so I hated when people used GameStop because it avoided the developers getting any money. But now I'm thinking that GameStop would be great, because most all but three of the games I bought just suck.

These online-purchase-only systems frankly need a one-hour refund policy. So many games where the controls are just jank (like 100% janky). Like everyone looked at Celeste and thought "This game is good because it's hard" instead of "This game is good because it rewards skill". I'd rather play Celeste and Returnal than these other utter wastes of hard drive. I only made it through Unsighted because you can make yourself invulnerable: fun story, fun ideas, fun levels, jank combat.

Bah humbug.
That was by hand but it's a small task.
Pay rises fail to keep up with the cost of living
Those who want to manufacture their chips locally (US or EU).
With this variant, the tests seem mainly about "how much longer should I quarantine?" It's test two or that finally shows positive, after you're pretty sure it's COVID.
That's more custom logic and additional code to maintain though.

In this case we're using the Datadog Agent with its custom_queries directive to automatically create metrics based on periodically evaluated SQL queries.
Proving things to the IRS is hard.

Let's go back to the stone age--the 1980s.

IRS to my mother: You didn't report your income from XXXX on your tax return.

Mother to IRS: I've never even heard of XXXX let alone worked for them. I'm retired.

IRS to mother: If you believe the 1099 is wrong talk to the company to get them to fix it.

Mother to IRS: I have been unable to even locate XXXX, please provide me with contact info.

IRS to mother: We are not allowed to give out such information.

I was off at college at that point and don't know how the situation was finally resolved.

When I got a bad 1099 my former employer even sent out a letter explaining the problem (a bogus entry had made it onto all of our 1099s) and how to dispute it with the IRS but in that case they weren't going to be contesting it--the company had already gone under. I'm pretty sure my mother's case was an illegal with a forged SS card who used my mother's information--the company would contest a dispute over a 1099 because by their records it was correct.
How come the graph edges are "--" and the digraph edges are "->", but not "<-"?

That means it's not possible to flip graph/digraph to see how it looks with/without arrows, but naievely it doesn't seem that the difference makes any difference except making that difficult, if the connections must always be written left to right. (I've not used more advanced features, so it could be that it does more, or could be that it was built expecting people to know what they want first, which would all be fine)
> So you'd mix and match elements from different versions of the schema in the same document?

No, the use-case is having an archive of documents conforming to different schemas. Or another use-case: schema evolves during the system's lifetime and you don't want to / can't upgrade old data to new schemas.

And yes, I even mix and match different schemas in the same document: pre-parsed information is stored in "my" elements, whereas the original data source is stored as extension in the XML, in its own namespace etc. So when the need arises for further processing/parsing, everything's already there in the document, with _the_ definitive source of truth. (Uninterpreted raw data)

> idiomatic versions of your PL constraints in XSD

That way is very easy: no PLs support (the XSD equivalent of) foreign keys, so that's "solved". Structs and inheritance are directly expressible, and even sum types from the languages that support it. Granted, XSD using sum types generates clumsy classes in PLs that don't.
> but nothing of the extreme sort you could easily stumble upon by just being online today, etc).

As an adult I don't "stumble" onto the type of content you're talking about and I browse the web a lot. So if children are "stumbling" onto this content, maybe just maybe, they don't need unfettered Internet access and their own private devices.
Kolmogorov complexity kinda does account for "prior knowledge" (that's why it's not computable). A shakespearian sonnet will have low kolmogorov complexity (there's redundancy).
Why is it bad for Linux users? Does gamepass not work under Proton?
And MS from buying Intuit
If you've had them as a client for more than 12 months, and are only looking to increase as a match to inflation, then I would be shocked if you have any negative feedback at all from your clients, or any of them leaving.

Personally I increase my rates when I notice that my schedule is getting full, and I'm struggling to find space for new work within it - To me pricing your time is just a simple calculation of Supply/Value vs Demand, clients seem to be Ok from my experience.
> if tomorrow morning the world’s great chip companies were to agree to stop advancing the technology, Moore’s Law would be repealed by tomorrow evening, leaving the next few decades with the task of mopping up all of its implications.

On the one hand, if this happened, it could be good for putting an end to the routine obsolescence of electronics. Then maybe we could get to the future that bunnie predicted roughly 10 years ago [1], complete with heirloom laptops.

On the other hand, ongoing advances in semiconductor technology let us solve real problems -- not just in automation that makes the rich richer, enables mass surveillance, and possibly takes away jobs, but in areas that actually make people's lives better, such as accessibility. If Moore's Law had stopped before the SoC in the iPhone 3GS had been introduced, would we have smartphones with built-in screen readers for blind people? If it had stopped before the Apple A12 in 2018, would the iOS VoiceOver screen reader be able to use on-device machine learning to provide access to apps that weren't designed to be accessible? (Edit: A9-based devices could run iOS 14, but not with this feature.) What new problems will be solved by further advances in semiconductors? I don't know, but I know I shouldn't wish for an end to those advances. I just wish we could have them without ever-increasing software bloat that leads to obsolete hardware.

[1]:' https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1927
It probably depends on whether the chip is a commodity chip or something special

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
I think it is the use-case. I'm just working on my property. It's like a big lawn mower and landscaping tool. I am getting the backhoe so that I can do some light trenching work. I can also use it to plow through medium levels of bush in the way. Also good to help with spreading gravel or smoothing out a building pad. It's like - if you have a normal size house with 10k sq ft lot, you own a lawn mower. When you own 10 acres or more, you probably need a tractor of some kind.

edit: Sorry I see you were specifically discussing the FEL that can handle 4k vs 1k. Mostly Gravel is my largest use-case. I won't be able to pallet lift a ton of bricks, that is correct. But for the rest of the tool it's like a swiss army knife in that it has different attachments both on the front, the back (and the bottom).
I sometimes really question if I'm back on reddit while reading some of these replies...

You're in HN, talking about MS and acquisitions, telling them to learn to compete?

Am I on the right website or has my browser been hijacked?
In America today, for many types of businesses, it's still that simple. You can open a sole proprietorship business with zero paperwork and no permission from anyone. You're not required to incorporate. You're not required to have a separate bank account.

Now, if you're selling apples (and other foods), you may have to deal with health code regulations. If you open a dentist office, you'll probably fall under other regulations. You can argue if those regulations are too heavy or not.

But many products/services in do not have many (if any) regulations governing them in most states/municipalities in the US. Just say you're in business and voila, you are.
> six different companies representing 0.0001% of the US workforce.

Just to check the accuracy, how did you arrive at this number? AFAICT, United Airlines has 93k employees, so alone represents approximately 0.028% of the US workforce, roughly 300x your guess, right?
Which is not the argument that you originally posted.

You repeated an old cliche(which is false) and now you moved goalposts.

PS: I've tried to run multiple Windows apps that wouldn't run on Windows 11. I have an older In System Programming software, that I have to run in a virtualized Windows XP. So...
Yes. Features, not bugs.
> Tencent doesn't dictate its studios how to conduct business.

Isn't that exactly what Tencent are well known for doing?[1]

> According to the designer, Riot managers had provided a PowerPoint presentation that she assumed Tencent had made for them, although she didn’t know for sure.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/15/china-video-gam...
Once you have billions and billions in profits to reinvest there's hardly a choice, is there? At some point, the firm has to invest in new product lines to support or supplant its tentpoles, and restricting the space of investment opportunities to those generated internally unnecesarily limits its options (viz. AAPL with more cash that it can spend)
The reduction of recommended quarantine time was clearly an acknowledgement of this. Keeping it at two weeks with no way to significantly reduce infection rates would have led to a month of everything being shut down, and everyone still getting sick anyway. Hell, it may yet lead to a week or three of de facto shutdown, just from actual out-sick time. The folks in charge have given up, without explicitly saying so.

[EDIT] For some evidence that we may get a de facto shutdown anyway: our (large) school district was short three hundred teachers the other day, and only managed to get one hundred subs. The schools are barely hanging on and shutting down or going remote for a week or two to cool things off and/or wait out the peak is a distinct possibility, which will have knock-on effects for the rest of the economy, which is also already dealing with high absence rates due to illness or direct exposure (which, with Omicron, is equivalent to "definitely has it, just waiting for symptoms").
Great analysis, thanks for posting it.

I only got as far as realising the stats were from the US and were probably global.
usually this is called paragraphs
Why would british people be envious of Berlin? London is a better city in almost every way, and that's coming from an outsider to both countries. Berlin isn't even in the top 5 cities in its own country, lol.

Genuinely curious because most Germans I've met don't particularly love Berlin at all, either unless they live there. Maybe you are right, and they are just envious though .
Russian trains transporting military equipment towards the western border
my bad, I didn't realize that "getting sick" wasn't the original wording.
Facebook patents reveal how it intends to cash in on metaverse
I think it's completely relevant, and it should always be pointed out that humans are suffering because of our tax dollars.