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Avalanche forecasting and "snow science" is a fairly developed field.

I'm only familiar with avalanche advisories in the continental US, but if you explore this map http://www.fsavalanche.org/ (click a grey area, then the "more information" button in the info box, here's one for the Central Sierra https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/advisory ) it'll give you an idea of the information available to the general public.

During months with an active snowpack (ie, winter) these advisories are updated on a daily basis detailing the different types of avalanche problems by altitude, aspect, likelihood, and size. Courses that teach in-the-field avalanche assessment and snowpack evaluation are widely available. Familiarizing yourself with the changing conditions over time prior to a trip will give you a pretty good idea what to expect.

In more remote parts of the world, the online information is not as available but observations over time can still be made, and I'd expect any climbing party to have the skills and tools needed for making their own assessments.

All of that said, avalanches kill people every year, even in places with resources available. Avalanche forecasts are essentially risk probabilities and how people use them comes down to personal decision making and tolerance for risk.
I see this going in the direction of hiring models to deliver a fully-scripted weather report full of ads and politics and sex appeal with almost zero weather-related content.
Reminds me of George Carlin's euphemisms rant.
If they can get away without packaging the interpreter, there is always an executable zip. There's a pretty handy tool for creating them:

https://github.com/linkedin/shiv
We use IRC as a central way of communication for our LAN parties, starting in 1998 and spanning at least eight directly connected party series/"brands" over all those years.

The number of attendees ranges from about 100 up to 3,500+ (German record, 2005, still holds), including roughly two dozen parties with 1,000 to 2,500 attendees.

On the orga side, we use it daily for internal discussion and notifications. Events from our own LAN party platform's [1] party web sites (accounts, orders, forum posts, etc.), internal forums, GitLab (issues, CI build results), and social media (followers, mentions) are announced there – using a combination of web hooks, RSS, Zapier, and custom tools ([2], [3]).

These days we use IRC in tandem with a self-hosted Mattermost [4] instance, a bot to bridge between both, and the option to connect to Mattermost with an IRC client. A few things like embedded images get lost on the way, though.

On the parties itself, we run a local IRC server. There is a main party channel with auto-join. Organizers are on IRC both for internal collaboration and monitoring (e.g. [5]) as well as user support.

Tournament players are required to be present in the respective IRC channels for the tournaments they participate in.

Events from the local party intranet [1] (news posts, forum posts, tournament updates) are announced on IRC as well.

A modified version of The Lounge [6] is provided as a simple, web-based alternative as part of our intranet for everyone not used to, or too fond of, a "classic" IRC client.

Last but not least, there's #quiz, running the same MoxQuizz [7] version for ages with questions from the mid-2000s.

That said, our guests usually provide multiple locally public TeamSpeak servers for voice communication.

So while we added some more modern tools and services to the mix (for example a Telegram channel for announcements, reminders and other tiny bits of information), and are considering others (for example Discord, but dependence on Internet connectivity and third-party terms are a massive downside for us), both IRC and LAN parties are totally not dead for us.

[1] https://github.com/byceps/byceps
[2] https://github.com/homeworkprod/weitersager
[3] https://github.com/homeworkprod/gewebehaken
[4] https://mattermost.com/
[5] https://github.com/homeworkprod/syslog2irc
[6] https://thelounge.chat/
[7] http://moxquizz.de/
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This article just included Milton Friedman in a collage that seems to imply he was a conspiratorial, racist, misogynist? For those who might not know who he was, here is is Wiki entry. [1] He's a nobel prize winning economist and more or less critical reading to understand the logic behind much of our current economic processes, without casting judgement on the rightness or wrongness of said systems. He died 13 years ago. I am, for once, at a loss for words. That is just so unbelievably idiotic.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
I've forgotten my headphones at home more than three times, clearly enemy action.
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How does Google Maps server authenticate android device?
Recently I have been digging in google maps authentication. When you are generating API keys for using google map for android, you can give `SHA-1` and `package name` of android apk for restricting api calls. Now the question I have is, How does google map server identify the apk, which is making the request to google map server with apiKey?
Thats doesnt like an intelligent piece of equivalence: setting a glue trap is a deliberate action, cattle getting lost -- not so much unless thats deliberate too
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Well yeah, that's why I continue to ask. I guess what I was getting at is that I'm sort of shocked people will still bullshit despite my explicit declaration ahead of time.
That version of retirement is extremely modern (postwar-Great Society ish). A return to working life or poverty for seniors would be a return to form.

Until Social Security and Medicare happened most seniors lived in abject poverty. https://www.nasi.org/discuss/2015/08/social-security%E2%80%9...
Nothing is black/white. Banks which operate like your grade school basic economics classes are providing a healthy/necessary service for the economy.

OTOH, it might be debated that banks which take your money leverage it out and get huge returns while giving you a fraction of a percent, banks that charge 2-4% transaction fees for basic transfers for merchants, or fee harvesting people for more than their net worth are more economic parasites than useful service providers.

Much of modern banking in countries like the US are basically shifting wealth from the economic value creators to a few vampires growing their own personal fortunes which dwarf that of the other 99.999% of the population. The idea that they might return some of that to their customers though interest bearing checking accounts, removing low balance fees or any of their other abusive practices never comes up.
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> most appeals are true bad actors

is that really the case?
Regardless of my personal feelings on the matter - you should know that the facial recognition tech you are advocating for increases the chances that you would become wanted by the police, even if you didn't do anything, because the tech has been shown to be horribly inaccurate in actual, real-world policing uses.

There is a huge difference between banning "finding the person they are looking for", and banning the use of bad tech.
As a Chinese, I'm inclined to agree with you. One thing above all is the education level of the population has gone up quite a bit. I personally think that's a cornerstone for any future social reforms.
>How likely is it, that Ivan Golunov was targeted for his latest report, which was published the next day after his arrest[1]?

"June 8, 2019" is the translation date, the original report was published on 17 May (https://meduza.io/feature/2019/05/17/vyselyatory).
> It's all about race and sex and identity issues.

That would merely be response to the current leftist narrative.

Doesn’t that sound like just the debate/discussion you just asked for, in the very same post? Make up your mind.
I'm in a kind of similar situation in that Msft owes me aprox $7k in royalties but they lost track of it internally. I've been pinging them every 6 months about this for the last 4 years, hoping to avoid litigation.

in the usa, you can't expect a lawyer to take a case without paying their fees up front. So $5000+ for any case.

Assuming you win, you are still looking at years before you might actually get paid (if ever).

That, plus a huge time and cognitive investment, means i'ts not surprising he took this route.
Was the jurisdiction of the contract mentioned?
That assumes the more expensive machines provide enough value over their cheaper counterparts for those users to care. Keep in mind that industrial machines tend to be more complicated to use as well.
michaelckelly commented on Dec 7, 2018

@skierpage and @briangordon we appreciate your concerns, which is why our compliance team vets anybody who uses Link. As to malicious knock offs, this is a matter that most successful companies lookout for and deal with -- as we and our security team do.

This person should not be allowed to provide services that use bank APIs. Who should do the preventing? Banks.
> Many countries are vastly reducing carbon while not investing in nuclear at all

In this case we are talking about shutting down a plant that could potentially run for 4-5 more years without decommissioning. I suspect the difference will be made up by coal/gas.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2019/02/01/germany-...
“Coal, the most emissions-intensive fossil fuel, now provides more than 42% of Germany’s power according to the International Energy Agency – a proportion that has been growing since the nuclear decision. The result is that Germany’s carbon emissions have been growing, while their neighbors’ has been declining.”
I would be interested in seeing you make a case for him being literally a white supremacist.

A convincing case would be:

1. a specific, authoritative definition of white supremacy

2. an example of a video demonstrating these specific (not approximate) beliefs

Is downvoting a request for evidence for an extraordinary claim (to be clear: this is not an assertion, so you "downvoting to express disagreement" is not valid) consistent with the HN guidelines?
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It's correct Spanish, it just throws off IT people because we use the term mostly for computer programming.
If you want to accuse someone of not going for nuance, maybe don't start with the words "conservative/right = bad, and liberal/left = good" in your post?
> I have a very hard time believing first graders etc have much use for scores

people all age react to compliment and scoldings, grades are just a synthetic alternative
With all these bones, it's not really the anthopocene, it's the poultrycene!
I'm... not nearly as extreme as the author, but pretty frugal. Not "rent out most of the house" frugal, but "make and stick to shopping lists", "spend a couple of days mulling over a purchase of 0.05% of my income" frugal. My spouse is like you.

Just a word of advice that you may already do. Please have very good communication with your wife about financial matters. This situation is very stressful for the frugal person, and it has caused all of our biggest arguments. The only thing we've found to help is very clear communication.
Equally "bad" you mean (and assuming those are bad)? Cause I don't consider e.g. Jordan Peterson bad, or even really that right. Conservative yes (which is another thing). In terms of classic left/right politics (and not the modern fashion of id politics) I'd say he's more or less a social democrat.

That said, for people on the left I follow, I'd mention Slavoj Zizek, Chomsky, Michea, and others (including authors on Counterpunch, NLR, Mother Jones, etc).

I like my leftists old school, regarding class, colonization, imperialism, and such, and don't care about the US obsession with identity politics (in fact I dislike it). I don't think the US has had many real leftists since like the 60s, and surely none in the mainstream.

>site doesn't let me reply but I can't believe you're seriously saying Chomsky and Zizek are the left equivalents of Crowder and Prisonpaul, lol

You should be able to reply, I think it just takes a minute for the link to appear or so. Can always click on the parent comment's date though to go to a reply page iirc.

That said, I didn't say "Chomsky and Zizek are the left equivalents of Crowder and Prisonpaul". I said those are some on the left I personally follow. I'm not sure what "equivalent" means here. Equivalent in what?

If it's about having polarizing opinions or away-of-centre opinions on things, well, all those mentioned have those.

>Let's narrow it down to those two. Who's the left Crowder/Prisonpaul if not Hbomb? And if it's Hbomb, how can you deny he's better than those two?

I wasn't sure who Hbomb is, so I paid a visit. Seems like someone making dumb jokes from what (in the US) passes for a leftist view. I haven't seen much Crowder (only heard about him through the recent fuss) but this Hbomb is not in my eyes any better than Prisonpaul. If anything, he's more grating.

(Also, better in what? Better person? Better opinions? More agreeable? More hipster-likable views?)
Surely there are but the span seems to be much smaller (500.000 vs 23andme's 10M)

And it 's not like they lock-in your data, you can export them to contribute to other studies if possible.
can grover please write me a cheesecake recipe writen by woody allen called 'i made this cheesecake, but i only want to have it.'?

:3
Is there a benefit to dry fasting? I’ve never even considered it
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Title is incorrect - this is not a guide to sending emails with SES, but rather with "Send with SES", a "wrapper" service that charges you a fee to manage your AWS emailing.
Coming from a less-than-responsible owner, based on my experience with a well-fed housecat, the cat will definitely make them suffer until they succomb to exhaustion which will take a few minutes. Once playtime is over death is pretty fast, either crushing the windpipe or a canine slipped between the cervical vertebrae. That's still loads better than the glue trap where death is at least hours away after exhaustion sets in.
It doesn't matter what those people you list personally believe; the fact is their speech and behavior is de facto functioning as an entry point funneling[1] people into fascist beliefs. If that isn't their intention, they really need to stop this kind of behavior.

> they do not support white supremacy and think Nazis are racist morons

> NYT still calls them "white supremacist supporting."

These are not in conflict; your actions can still support fascists unintentionally. When people point out your beliefs are supporting white supremacists, it might be a good idea to correct the problem. Continuing to defend the problematic behavior is when what might have been unintentional support begins to look more like intentional participation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw
Could one invent a protocol to eliminate almost all deaths? The article mentions a prudent Sherpa aborting summitting for a client who would be unable to descend. But can anything be done about sudden failures of the body in high altitude?
I don't understand. What's the difference between this and just cloning (not forking) a repo? If it's the same, why not just add a button called "clone" that appears in _all_ repos?
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I don't know why it is assumed that eyballing text generated by a neural net can give an accurate measure of the network's quality. Evaluating this sort of output is difficult and there are no good metrics for it.

Then of course there is the fact that the network can generate text a lot faster than a human can read it. Think for a moment how many distinct passages these systems can generate -possibly even infinite- and how few of them a single person can realistically hope to read. It's very hard to know if the few passages one ends up reading are representative of the output of the network, or not.

It'd be even harder to compare two systems just by eyballing their output side-by-side.
Something about this reminds me of school shooting stories: it’s meamt to discourage Everest trekkers, but it will probably end up encouraging them. Misconceptions abound.

Some argue that people shouldn’t climb Everest because it’s not that impressive anymore. This is irrelevant: people aren’t dumb or arrogant enough to believe they’ll convince their friends they’re great mountaineers. They’re obviously not great mountaineers and they’re at least minimally self-aware.

Some argue that people shouldn’t climb Everest because it’s crowded and not exclusive. But Mecca is crowded and the hajj rolls on. Explain.

Still others argue that people shouldn’t climb Everest because it’s dangerous. This is the worst argument of all! Dangerous things are cool! Half the stories I tell at parties involve me almost dying. Or at least I try to make it sound that way.

There is one single fact that makes people climb Everest: people don’t like to explain their accomplishments. Everyone knows what Mount Everest is. Everyone knows it’s dangerous to climb. What you gain is having done something everyone else can recognize. Stories like this only increase the notoriety of the peak. Nobody’s going to be impressed if you summit Kangchenjunga What’s that? Aconcagua? Never heard of it. Nanda Parbat? I think I had that at an Indian restaurant once. And so on.

Every time someone tweets a news story about deaths on Everest, two more idiots decide to buy a trip. I guarantee it.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait so we don't have to ban you again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's my main beef with Plaid: a lot of times when you use it as an end user you have no idea that you're giving one of Plaid's customers full history on all of your transactions, accounts, credit cards, loans, etc. Plaid presents you with a ToS that you will probably never read.

Compare that to something like "Sign-in with Google" or "Sign in with Github". They put it in plain english exactly what the website you are signing into is asking permission for and you explicitly say I'm ok with that.
What 10 kg of heroin are you talking about?! Initially they said they found 5g of mephedrone, then cocaine (probably after they realized no successful man would be able to abuse mephedrone and still be successful).

They even posted 9 (IIRC) photos on an official, government site for ministry of internal affairs that they claimed were taken in Ivan's apartment. Only I've of them was taken there.
Later they acknowledged this as an error. And then these guys want us to oblige fake news laws? This IS fake news. On an official site.

Not to mention an awful lot of procedural blunders in his case.

So, what 10 kg (!) of heroin (!!)? Source or GTFO.
Not Kanchenjunga, definitely. :)

I don't think I have the will to attempt any eight thousander right now. I will see if I can transition to 7k first.
According to the article, experts in nuclear engineering (working for the company) have modeled the state of the reactor and determined it is safe to restart.

The anti-nuclear quotes in the article don’t appear to be from people qualified to judge the analysis of the cracks, which is why I mentioned it. Can’t they find an independent expert like a professor who specializes in nuclear reactor design, rather than someone who studies “energy policy”?
I’m not sure, but does it matter?

I take issue with a product that markets to consumers as an easy way to authenticate for the purpose of pulling or pushing funds, but is actually authorizing developers to scrape years of transaction history in 20 minutes, my real time balance, my phone/email/address etc. without another level of permission. It’s disgusting.

I just wanted an alternative to microdeposits to prove to an app that I own a bank account, not give the app free range to steal all my bank data in the process of doing so.
I’m no mountaineer, but I’ll guess the misunderstanding here stems from where one draws the baseline. If you’re someone who spent years climbing in the Alps or in Colorado, then I assume that Everest simply may not be an upgrade. It’s like doing an easy climb in the Alps at half the oxygen and more severe weather—in terms of athleticism, there’s no extra achievement. The sherpa in the article probably talks about very fit “urban” people, which is still very different different from an experienced mountaineer. I may still be off though.
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Thanks, I will read up more on this.
I've been a "maker" since I was a kid. Same Ham radio, dad tinkered with stuff, best friends family ran a lawn mower repair business that others have chronicled.

Now most of the things I make are electronics with mostly a CPU, and some way to talk to the remote device but 90% is code. Woodworking is via either my own tools, or a friend's shop.

I'm on the board of a Maker group and our two big things is rental (pontifier's comment) and our insurance. It's sad to see people pay $400 for an Apple Watch and then whine about a $10 a month shop fee.

Interesting thing is Public Libraries are becoming Maker Spaces (not a TM) with printers, laser cutters, sewing machines, etc. Our county built a new library with an "innovation center" in it with all this stuff.

A local museum runs a "Fair for Makers" (again not a TM) that this year had 22 exhibitors in their main building and about 40 outside. Also had craft brew and food trucks, all for $5 a person. No fee to present so it was a nice day for everyone.

Sorry to see them go out of business, I think they started something very cool.
As with anything, people get into trouble when they fixate on goals rather than the process.

If your objective is simply to become a better mountaineer rather than tick off a list of summits, that'll naturally lead you in a sensible direction. You'll get the right training, you'll work on your skills and fitness, you'll look for routes that offer the greatest technical challenge at the lowest risk. The inverse attitude is what gets most people into trouble on Everest - they push far beyond the limit of their abilities, they ignore clear warning signs that their body is failing, all because they're preoccupied with the summit.
You can fund a traditional IRA and 401k up to a certain MAGI.[2] If your spouse doesn't work, or their work doesn't offer a 401k, you can fund a traditional IRA for them as well. Roth IRA is $5.5k/year.[0] If your 401k plan allows in-plan conversions you can also do mega backdoor Roth IRA contributions up to something like $37k. [1]

0. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/roth-ira-contribut...

1. https://thecollegeinvestor.com/17561/understanding-the-mega-...

2. https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/money-finance/retirement/c...
The app probably doesn't talk to the API server directly, but to a Google service running on the device, which has access to that information.
Oh man, I really like this but I can definitely imagine a whole lot of people who would hate this.
You can generate your own examples with the "Generate" button. It will fill in that field based on generated text using the other fields as input.

For example, you could clear all the fields, enter a headline, and generate an article for that headline.
>It doesn't matter what those people you list personally believe; the fact is their speech and behavior is de facto functioning as an entry point funneling[1] people into fascist beliefs.

Sounds like "better not let anybody be right-wingers or they may someday turn to fascism!"