Government Publishing Office and Library of Congress provides XML formatted bills and all their amendments and a feed of all changes to every bill.

Oh and on the topic of party politics, Bill Clinton was the one who had them put things online in the first place with the GPO Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act, and Barack Obama and the Democrats expanded it via American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - not the do-nothing Republicans.

That's not really the right picture.

Congress.gov, originally THOMAS.gov, was a product of the Republican Contract with America take-over of Congress in the mid 1990s. Republicans in Congress, including Rep. Issa for example, were helpful in expanding the information that Congress publishes publicly. In the last 15 years, efforts to make Congress publish more and better-structured information have been relatively bipartisan and, mostly, led by nonpolitical staff. I would not describe Democrats as having been the ones to have exclusively created the access to congressional information that we have today, although Democrats in recent years have led on government transparency and accountability issues generally, beyond the Legislative Branch.

Changes that have required legislation have, as far as I'm aware, not really been influenced by the President, other than being signed into law, since they are Legislative Branch concerns and not Executive Branch concerns.

about what?

They don't share chats with others unless you click the "Share" button to share the chats.

They are private by default. It's basically the same as every other AI chat app.

As if we needed another reason to hate NYT and their paywall...

It was cut because tax preparing companies pay the politicians to cut it.

In my experience the paper forms are so much easier and more reliable than using tax software. A pen and a form just works. No account logins and passwords, no janky UI, no advertisements, no issues saving your progress... The instructions are much better too. Each box is numbered and there's an instruction manual detailing what to put in that box. If you make mistakes the IRS will simply correct you.

The problem I had with the papers is they don't tell you when you need to have another form. Guided question software will ask questions to determine if you need forms.

I think machine code and building something like a Forth is way easier to understand than any contemporary programming language toolchain.

Somewhat related: What is with the rampant cursing nowadays? In the US people are openly saying f-word in professional settings, in public to strangers or acquaintances, in writing and video... seemingly everywhere even in calm normal conversations.

I don't remember it being like this decades ago. Is it just me? I remember people used to curse only in private conversation, when angry, and never at the office in meetings and professional contexts.

Yeah, there's been a pretty big generational shift, I think mostly from GenZ. I'd posit that texting/social media may be a reason.

I first went to grad school ~20 years ago, and no one cursed in class, especially not the professors.

I recently went back to school and got another masters, and nearly all the mid-20-year-olds drop f-bombs in regular classroom talk to the professor constantly, like they don't even hear that they're doing it. Some professors don't mind, and even respond in kind (though much more self-consciously), some are clearly displeased, but the students barely notice.

Yes it's particularly prevalent in the under-30 crowd, and especially people under 25. I don't know about teens, not around them very much these days.

Don't get me wrong, I used that word plenty when I was that age, but only among peers in informal settings. Never at work or when talking to a person in a respected position.

It's not just you, and I would say that there seems to have been a general coarsening of society. The other day I saw someone with a bumper sticker saying "I pooped today", which I did find funny, but I reflected that it never would've been socially acceptable 30 years ago or so. People seem to have rejected the idea that some things are not acceptable to discuss or display openly. See for example "let your freak flag fly" and so on.

There are pros and cons to it, I suppose. I don't think it's bad for gay people to be out of the closet, for example. But I also find stuff like the rampant swearing* or "I pooped today" to be a bit troubling as I get older and think "man I wouldn't want my kids to learn it's ok to talk like that".

* not casting stones, I have a very strong swearing habit myself that I try to curb. It's hard.

Maybe because this is how people communicate?

I am French and when I speak English I use fuck when someone fucked up. I also say sex when people are, well, fucking.

The f*k, g**y, m***ly and others are childish.

But there are appropriate contexts.

I don't know your line of work, but presumably there are contexts where you wouldn't say "fuck," like to your CEO, or your top client, or your kid's teacher, or something, right?

So people just have different opinions on where the line is, and that line has shifted to include more contexts. That's simply what people are noticing.

Recall.ai is exactly this. Using them at my current company and it works well. It even supports live transcription.

Aah nice. I knew about them but did not see they have a desktop sdk

also check out Meeting BaaS (meeting bots as a service), we're an open-source competitor.

We thought long and hard of creating an SDK but did not go that route for now. Our main problem is that if you have to support Windows machines you're putting the finger into something really complicated.

And then depend on the end user's specs, etc.

So I'm really curious, in your case are you planning on deploying to Apple machines (m1+)? Or also set it up on Windows machines?

A mix but primarily apple.

How else are product managers and designers supposed to justify their existence?

Not Congress - Republicans, who have a congressional majority.

... for now, and barely.

What evidence do you have for this? The democrats are showing nothing that suggests they will take either chamber of congress. Even if they got control of the house and actually impeached, the results would be no different than the previous 2 impeachments where the senate took no action. Even if they get control of both chambers, they'd have to have an over whelming victory to reach enough seats to secure a conviction since it needs a 2/3 vote.

The current administration is behaving exactly like they know this. They are also boosted by the fact that SCOTUS told essentially told POTUS that he can do whatevs without repercussions. He's even ignoring their direct orders, and still nothing.

You can call me pessimistic, but these are just the facts of the situation. You're optimism is based on what?

History, particularly in the last 30 years where political polarization has significantly increased:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_midterm_election...

Trump lost 41 seats in the house in his first term and the administration wasn't anywhere near as polarizing. The voting bloc for mid-terms is very different from presidential elections.