I’m not disagreeing. The report isn’t clear. This is written by people asking Congress for a budget cut.
NSF programs indirectly impact millions of people, reaching PreK-12 students and teachers, the general public, and researchers
The actual impact to the pipeline may be far larger.
For a limited definition of “solved”, sure. I recommend looking at the article for the dates that commonly used systems have solved the problem. Most are very recent, and changes like this take a very long time to adopt.
She’s complaining about the phrase “giving time back”. It’s a phrase used in corporate settings that is often used for small amounts of time. The meaning isn’t really important, but I find it’s used by individuals as a way of “virtue signaling” that everyone in the meeting are busy with other priorities.
Hopefully it’s a phrase that will pass quickly like many other corporate phrases.
2010 and 2014 California AG elections, 2016 California Senate election, and 2024 US presidential election.
The source is worth a quick read. It’s very tongue in cheek.
Merrick Garland is no longer attorney general. What do you expect him to do?
Looking into the sale by James he shared in his form 4 filing that his sale was to cover the transaction cost in exercising his non-qualified stock options (NSO). This sale results in closing part* of his NSO grant and acquisition of 477,011 shares. The net cash value of the sale comes out to $196k. This should result in ordinary income tax of roughly $42M.
* I’m not actually sure how NSOs work here. It’s unclear to me if there are still exercisable options in this grant or any other outstanding grants.
The shares were sold to cover the exercise price relating to the exercise of stock options to purchase 531,787 shares, which are scheduled to expire in 2025.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000177134025000004/xslF345X05/edgardoc.xml
It’s one backed by a lot of data. One example is from the Android project.
The percent of vulnerabilities caused by memory safety issues continues to correlate closely with the development language that’s used for new code. Memory safety issues, which accounted for 76% of Android vulnerabilities in 2019, and are currently 24% in 2024, well below the 70% industry norm, and continuing to drop.
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html
There’s an argument that critical infrastructure software vendors are already meeting standards for basic, non-memory related items. Yes, there are other categories, but memory safety is one that’s harder to verify. Moving to memory safe languages is an ensure a category of correctness. This excludes usage of unsafe escape hatches.
It looks like the challenge was a variation on multi-agent path finding. Neat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent_pathfinding
https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2025heuristic/tasks/awtf2025heuristic_a