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If someone with mod powers sees this (or OP), the title has a typo in it. It's intended to be "says CEO whose app roiled Iowa", not "rolled Iowa."
Seriously curious, there were only 1,765 precincts.

Couldn't they just create a Google Forms link share it to the field people sending the results back? It would be only 1765 lines in a Google Sheets doc, and would be practically free. (Not to mention more secure than a custom implementation by semi-incapable development contractors like in this case.)
I'm not sure how this is considered On-Topic according to the site guidelines? It's not something "hackers would be interested in", IMO.
I think you're right... We blew through the free tier 50k database reads just on testing, and that's just 3 users!
I really don't see a lot of accountability in any of his statements. It just seems like "well this thing went wrong, somehow, and its nobodies fault and hey nothing was lost". I find that to be absolutely abhorrant. Think about if you're one of their junior developers - you'd probably be blaming yourself for whatever bug that happened to get in. That the CEO wouldn't take any responsibility is a complete lack of leadership.

To those devs, jr or otherwise - every step that was supposed to protect against a failure in the app seems to have failed here, and you should not feel bad. Mistakes happen and should be expected, but the damage that they are allowed to wreck is the blame of poor management, not you.
firefox has autplay off by default.
Where is the fun in that? Gotta throw an elastic kafka beanstalk at it behind a series of microservices that serve the frontend as multiple single page apps composed into one umbrella via iframes.
i love a smug, passive-aggressive apology. just OWN up to it, acknowledge the implications of the issue you caused and provide an actual apology. unreal.

“I’m really disappointed that some of our technology created an issue that made the caucus difficult,” said Gerard Niemira, chief executive of political technology company Shadow Inc., in his first interview after the caucus. “We feel really terrible about that.”
Only mediatek has a smartphone SOC with AV1 available.
In Australia and Aotearoa there seems to be a solid correlation. I've worked with a few mediocre degree holders and possibly one competent non-degree holder. But I've experienced the opposite as a matter of course (not that I assume up front, but that's the way it works out).

(edit) I work in smaller companies, and used to consult into companies who were having performance and especially server threading issues. That biases who I work with.
I would think there’s a lot, especially with molecular biology taking a computational twist.
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I bumped into that at the office - connecting from a linux server to a microsoft sql server. We were able to connect after installing unixodbc and microsoft's odbc driver for sql server on linux. Note that a local mssql account is required, you can't connect with microsoft domain authentication from a linux box. We haven't finished testing and tweaking, but so far it looks like it's working.
To “roll” is to mug or to rob someone. Seems fitting?
Elife did this experiment long ago (one of their many innovations)

https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e9091cea/peer-review-...
This seems like a sound argument for avoiding hiring people who might become parents soon. 30% less output for the same amount of pay seems like a bad deal for an employer.
I feel like if you really wanted to use technology to fix this issue, it's just as easily -- and maybe better? -- done in a more affirmative way. Say you have a repeating calendar invite for your nights out. Everyone agrees that they'll leave the invitation un-responded until they definitively do or do not want to meet up. If, within an hour or so (or whatever) of the meeting time, no one has replied "yes" to the invitation, it's implicitly canceled. If at least one person says "yes", then others who are on the fence can see that someone else really wants to meet up, and possibly decide to join.

Regardless, I agree, as you say, that this problem maybe isn't really one that needs solving. But I also agree that using some sort of no-communication-needed app to solve this particular coordination problem does not present an apocalyptic threat to human social interactions ;)
You can totally visualize them deeply sniffing their own farts between the lines here.
Every single executive in this little software company used to work at Clinton's 2016 campaign [1] so they have political connections.

Not to mention, political parties aren't transparently run in many cases like we've seen in 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak. Most likely, these people are feeding off of their political connections and harvesting donation money from not just the party, but also the candidates [2].

This is also why I'm no longer donating to a political party directly, or a candidate who would in turn would do the same. It seems like the only independent candidate running under democratic party is keeping his campaign money in-house.

[1] https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/applications-os/who-is-shado...

[2] https://twitter.com/BustinTrudeau/status/1224697566182498306
Codecs like AV1 do a LOT of motion and transformation detection. That's generally where a lot of that ram goes, They are storing a metric ton of matrix data from prior (and future? I'm not sure if AV1 does this) frames so that when calculating the current frame stream they can quickly look up that info.

Needless to say. figuring out which piece of data should be plucked out and transformed from prior frames is really computationally expensive.

Here's a paper on exactly what sort of tools are available for the codec.
https://jmvalin.ca/papers/AV1_tools.pdf

edit I should note that the data stream for H.264 is FAR simpler. It doesn't support nearly the number of transformations that AV1 does.
Hey, Mike from Mushino here.

You're completely right about the liquidity. We just launched two days ago and haven't brought in any major market makers yet. We're currently in talks with some, so expect to see more liquidity very soon.

And yes, for legal reasons we are not allowed to accept customers located in the US. Neither are most other crypto derivatives exchanges (Bitmex, Deribit, FTX). It really is an unfortunate state of affairs.
"nautical miles from radians" has to be one of the most esoteric functions built into any language.
Looking at the video, I'm honestly surprised there's only one death. The fuselage is completely sheared off. I really hope all those people recovery quickly and fully!
I think the comment is about the parallel between a post Versailles humiliated Germany leading to Hitler.
there should be a public and a private portion
In the sort of seas that produce rogue waves, the direction of the rogue wave is also less predictable.
Sounds like it’s all the interns fault.

Wonder how much tech this person understands
Basically someone didn’t do the load testing before prod release.
Are we getting yelped?
I think something like this would be better as an etherium smart contract using oracles to get the crypto prices. Then you wouldn't have to trust a 3rd party (as long as the oracles work right)
> An explanation of the sort "you have cancer because neurons 10, 18, and 19 fired" is not satisfactory enough to pass the human test.

Sure, but that doesn't mean we should be okay with not understanding why those neurons fired.

That is: if an ANN can reliably figure out if someone has cancer based on various inputs, then it should be possible to isolate the ANN's rationale for that determination. That probably ain't an easy task by any means, but unless ANNs are magic spells not subject to our physical laws, it is possible nonetheless.
> It is only a poisoning if it is not true.

That is literally not the definition of the "poisoning the well" logical fallacy.

And if you actually did publish in Nature, congrats. You still didn't offer an alternative.

Edit: fixed typo
Find the training camp that assembled and delivered the nuke and nuke that (or drone it, if you have the logistics for that, but the point of nuclear deterrence is to assure that if you use nukes you die).

The point of having low-yield nukes is so you can do precision targeting. A 20mt nuke that blows up a whole city cannot be used if there's a danger that fallout might fall on friendly or neutral territory. A 5kt nuke that blows up a roughly 150m radius and causes negligible fallout could be used on a small training camp, or even a warehouse in a lightly-populated suburban area, without causing massive diplomatic problems.
OK but what does the general public do?
I swear if it weren't for the many institutional problems plaguing academia including publish or perish in particular, shoddy bullshit studies like this would never see the light of day.

Even bending over backwards they were barely able to show a tiny correlation from surveys. Meat consumption was the evolutionary step that enabled primates to develop and maintain biologically expensive brains that made them human. There unquestionably had to have been a strong evolutionary pressure to adapt completely to meat eating.

This is just data dredging in pursuit of justification for some kind of weird anti-meat sentiment which has been growing for decades, when the real culprit is already known - it's the sugars that have most likely been killing all of us, although to be honest if the same "gold standard" methods were applied to sugar related studies I'd question those as well. The way the media continues to sensationalize these correlative, broken studies is shameful.
10.97 MacBook Pro charges equals 1 mile driven in an F-150
A "dirty bomb" is nothing but essentially dynamite and radioactive I-131.

That isn't a huge problem. I had my thyroid gland removed 30 years ago.

How? They give you a pill of radioactive iodine 131.

Nothing simple iodine pills won't solve. That's nothing even close to a nuclear weapon.
These developers also developed Buttigieg's campaign software and Buttigieg donated to help develop the caucus app.
They use statistical methods to eliminate the confounding variables. But given that they do not understand the fallibility of doing that on extremely noisy data, the conclusions are telling us nothing.

They cannot control anything and it's all just questionnaires.

It's fine too look at these things but they seem to get blown out of proportion every single time, even when industry funded studies come out saying eggs or bacon is fine.

And yes, 7% increased risk is practically nothing. That's baseline risk multiplied by 1.07. It's noise all the way.
From the article here - https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/02/04/companies-behind-iow...

Shadow Inc. — the tech company behind the app — launched in 2019 with backing from political nonprofit ACRONYM, according to a statement from the nonprofit.

ACRONYM founder and CEO Tara McGowan, a Newport, R.I., native, said on Twitter that Shadow is “an independent company ACRONYM invested in.

McGowan, who lists herself as a former journalist, married then-Hillary Clinton campaign staffer and current Buttigeig strategist Michael Halle in 2015, according to a Providence Journal marriage announcement and Halle’s Twitter account.

Not at all suspicious !
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I'm not sure how you can propose legislation without the majority approval.

A functioning democracy legislates according to the will of the people. That means you HAVE to convince the majority first.

In a broken democracy, you still need to convince the powerful (although this might actually be easier). But you still have to convince them to apply the same standard to those without power, which is likely a hard sell.
> The problem was caused by a bug in the code that transmits results data into the state party’s data warehouse.

The amount of data we're talking about here would fit comfortably in an Excel spreadsheet. Why on Earth was there a data warehouse involved at all?
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Nature would not assign the same value to every star. Star from someone who works in a university and has large impact factor in the related field will have much higher value than a star from newly created account without any published work.
> > program correctness

How would this language (or any other) go about verifying the correctness of:

fn subtract(int a,int b) -> int
model return == a + b
{
return a + b;
}
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No I didn’t say I was mad. More and more my friends don’t want to chat on the phone at all, which ironically we’ve talked about on discord or on the phone. It’s not the subject matter (just chatting about their day or what’s new in their life) but the ratchet of the ability to have complete control of our time responding to texts when it is most convenient for us but forgoing some human connection of hearing a voice. And I think it’s that way across society and I think it’s a little bit sad and a little bit scary.

I’m not on Facebook so maybe the portal screens are getting traction and things will tip back toward a human element with video.
Here's a radical idea. Embrace that technology will bring everything to light and essentially destroy privacy. Instead, let's ensure the powerful people in our society also have no privacy. Let's ensure we can watch the watchers with more eyes than they watch us with.
People getting trained on the app last week reported manhy issues with it but the reply was 'don't worry you can always phone in the results too'
CEO claims the "The app was sound and good" but there was a "transmission bug" in the code...

Other way to say it, if you don't count the mistakes - then the app is excellent.
It's not really. That's how most software projects happen. "We need XYZ app/site/solution? Hm...I worked with these guys back in 2016 and they did good work. I'll make an introduction...."
The first sentence in Section 10.2 (Absorption, Distribution and Excretion): "Glutamate is absorbed from the gut by an active transport system specific for amino acids."

I'm not convinced you read what you just cited.
> Unfortunately, I can't find the exact numbers anymore, but it was staggeringly low, something in the vein of 1 word written per hour, 1 note composed per day, and one new joke per week.

This is so ridiculous as to be offensive. Bring the downvotes, I don't care.
They could given restricted access to a shared Google Sheet at this scale.
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wouldn't you just have to use a vpn?
From the perspective of a tech person interested in the long backstory to modern capital management structures (special purpose vehicles, trusts, etc), Pistor's book is outstanding. Exceptionally well written, and exceptionally informative. One of the best books I read in 2019.
If you had to reach into your bag of probability concepts to pick the most closely related one, it would be "Large Deviations", which comes up for engineers in the context of information theory.

Basically, as explained in the article, many kinds of rare events (like, averages attaining values far from the population mean) can be characterized without knowing a lot of problem-specific details.

For instance, if the typical value for an average of 1000 positive numbers is 10, and you want to know the chance of an outcome greater than 100 (a "large deviation"), you can pretty much just calculate the chance of the outcomes very near 100, without caring about 120 or greater. That is, it turns out that the larger outliers carry very little probability, although that's not obvious.

This phenomenon comes up a lot and goes by several names. It was known to Laplace and there's an approximation used commonly in that area bearing his name. It's also related to the notion in information theory of the "typical set".

Similarly, you can, in some ways, characterize the realizations that cause these extreme values. (As opposed to just computing their probabilities.)

For instance, if I remember right, the typical realization that gives rise to a large average has just a few larger-than-expected values and a vast majority of about-average values, rather than every value being slightly too large. This is a highly general property.
> the app was sound and good, the problem was a transmission code ...

This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about is he? Is this same person who wondered why he could copy the google frontend and it would look literally the same? What use is a browser with faulty internet ‘transmission code’
So says you. Like I said, I know people like this, and I am not willing to label them as people who have poor social skills or other disparaging things. I don't consider this category of dishonesty to be one that a person necessarily needs to correct, if there are approaches to the scenario where the conflict between honesty and empathy that conflict for them could allow the person to live more according to their values by preventing the need to make the trade-off altogether.
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Wasn’t even a prod release. They used a Test Flight like distribution platform to bypass the app stores because the app wasn’t ready in time to go through App Store approval processes.
Not likely to be a practical problem given the tiny amount that's going to be in one of these chips. Unless you get a whole bunch of them together and open them all at once.

To me the bigger environment question is how the tritium is produced and what impacts that might have.
It's fighting our nature as social animals and base entropy, the pair of pernicious problems all intelligent creatures in the universe have to deal with. It's a hard freaking problem.
Oops. Using "Alt" for a key isn't good here, as on Firefox it pops open the top menu bar (eg File, Edit, ...), changing the window height too.
Most of them are, as you can easily find out by putting SAP in their careers search, e.g., https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?company=Google&comp...
So I think this is basically saying they used http instead of https?
Agreed, I thought it was an intentional backhanded comment to the CEO.
I'm waiting for blancolirio, vasaviation and mentourpilot, but the big takeaway:

the NG fuselage broke up, caught on fire and killed a passenger.

A contributing factor is the widely-unknown substandard quality of the critical structural elements made by Boeing's best-buddies at Ducommun that Boeing management ordered installed even though they were grossly out of spec by being crudely hand-made instead of CNCed. This goes all the way back to before 2010. 737 classic was a much stronger aircraft because it was designed, manufactured and maintained correctly. This isn't an isolated instance of an NG breaking up on hard landings and runway overruns.

- Turkish Airlines 1951

- AIRES 8250

- Air Niugini 73

- Caribbean Airlines 523

- American Airlines 331

This is what happens with "self-regulation," unchecked greed and corruption, and prevalence of faulty beliefs like "all gubberment bad."
I use Namecheap for names and the Linode nameservers for DNS. I have a few nanodes (Linode's lowest VPS tier), so it makes sense to use their servers.
This is not a battery per se, it's really a generator. Over 20 years this thing is worth something like 20 watt-hours, but is far smaller than the equivalent primary cell (because it doesn't store energy, at least not chemically) and doesn't have issues with current leakage. It's meant for powering super long-lived low-power devices, one example that comes to mind that could benefit would be the container monitors used by the IAEA for monitoring nuclear material.
You are saying that most people doesn’t? Any polls or data supporting that assertion? Bring data to the discussion.

Here’s some: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/27/americans-c...

91% of Americans feel that they have lost control of their personal data and privacy. The logical conclusion is that at least that many understand what they have gotten themselves into. That would indicate that a majority of people are exercising informed consent, despite the vast majority of Americans feeling that way, they continue to use the gamut of products and services.
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Well, take a look at whose campaign they worked for prior to this.
That's not what the OP said though. I am in academia and most of my colleagues would agree with you about publishers. That's why most of us publish pre-prints on our websites, so that everyone can access our work. We can debate the business model but the OP is saying it produces inept research without really supporting that statement.
>Even more fun? You know who owns that yacht now? DJT.

Any reference on that?
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I mean, what is software without a product?
Jesus. If you're having to split your application across multiple machines at just 1,000 users you are poked by the time you have to properly scale.
If you don’t at least have a kubernetes cluster, you’re doing it wrong.
They legitimately wanted more security than that, with two-factor and other similar systems to prevent hostile actors inserting bad data.
That’s what I thought originally, but there really shouldn’t have been much load (ignoring the load of downloading the app to begin with). There were fewer than 2000 precincts, and each precinct had to upload around 100 bytes of data. That shouldn’t have been hard.

One news story I read quoted an error message about a “missing protocol.” I believe that the “coding error” was really a configuration error: somebody forgot to include https:// in the web service URL. The app recorded the data, but couldn’t upload it.

Load testing would have found this, but so would a single integration test/smoke test.
Made by shadow, inc. No joke
I feel like it being implicitly cancelled would be a bug, not a feature, but maybe that's because my scenario is, generally speaking, a positive thing that most people want to attend, and increasing friction is just not something anyone wants.

We're mostly just agreeing about the idea and nitpicking about the particulars, though.
Well you did see people just Tweeting the results from their precinct in all of this which managed to produce a good picture of what was going on. So you don't even need a collaborative document!