Well, indexing and searching is kind of Google's thing.
It also helps that they're using a unified build system. They can instrument the compiler to get cross references from the build instead of trying to figure out out by parsing the text themselves.
They open sourced the tool to do it- https://kythe.io - but I think it would be a pain to make it work for anything like GitHub that supports arbitrary languages and build systems with untrusted code
One of the rules of Mario Maker is that in order to post a level, the creator has to clear it, to make sure that all posted levels are possible. But the creator of this level admitted recently that their clear of the level was tool-assisted. The team that was working on beating all the levels don't consider such "hacked" levels in scope.
StingRay is a brand name. The generic term is IMSI catcher. Basically a portable fake cell tower law enforcement can carry around that will capture the identities of every phone in the vicinity. They can also pretend to be 2G-only towers to trick phones to use an insecure protocol so more data can be captured.
Since it tracks everyone in the area, there's major privacy concerns about how they're used, and police have been caught repeatedly lying about their use. To the point that if the defense in a case discovered police had used a Stingray to identify their client and challenged it, the police would drop the case rather than letting anything about the Stingray enter the public record. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/fbi-would-rather...
Even beyond ramping up a new project, it can be important for maintaining existing ones. If a service outage costs a company millions of dollars a minute, it can be worth it to keep a team around that can resolve the occasional outage a few minutes faster even if they have almost nothing to do the rest of the year.
There's four ways for code to not be copyrighted (in the US):
1. The author died more than 70 years ago or it was owned by a corporation and it's been 95 years since publication
2. It was written prior to 1989 and did not include a copyright notice.
3. It was written by the government
4. The author explicitly released it into the public domain
1 and 2 probably don't cover much code on the Internet. So unless it's a government repository and/or explicitly marked with a public domain notice, you can probably assume it's copyrighted.
Right but it depends where the device was sold. A Galaxy S22 intended for Europe is built with a vulnerable Exynos SOC but a Galaxy S22 built for the US has a Snapdragon.
You don't want a spam filter in your email? Everything should go straight to inbox? And that's not even mentioning the processing they have to do to figure out whose email it is in the first place.
The 5% = full employment threshold has always been calculated based on U3. That's what they measured to come up with that estimate. If you want to talk about how U6 is better, then you need to compare it to previous U6 measurements, not previous U3 measurements.
If, as you were implying, U3 was hiding extra unemployment right now but U6 was more accurate, then it wouldn't be so closely tracking U3.
The US uses a large-scale survey for unemployment rather than tying it to the unemployment process. The official definition most people quote is based on responses to the survey of "have not worked recently, have looked for work recently" but there are also broader measures of unemployment that count people who want to work even if they haven't looked, as well as people working part time who want to work full time.
Using even the broadest measure of unemployment[1], numbers are back down where they were before Covid. The labor force participation rate is still down though[2] which means that about 2% of US adults aren't looking to go back to work at all- many of them are likely now retired, students, or stay-at-home parents.
U-6's 7.2% is compared to 7.0% in February 2020 and 8.1% in February 2007. So even that is similar to pre-Covid levels and better the the peak before the last recession.
They open sourced the tool to do it- https://kythe.io - but I think it would be a pain to make it work for anything like GitHub that supports arbitrary languages and build systems with untrusted code