Progress used to be glamorous. For the first two thirds of the twentieth-century, the terms modern, future, and world of tomorrow shimmered with promise. Glamour is more than a synonym for fashion or
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever prog
The saga of the UnitedHealth Care CEO assassination has, as could be expected, now turned into a discussion of our health care system. Elizabeth Warren, for instance, is making the obvious point that
Search 2024 in Review Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit. December 12, 2024 Illustration by Sean Dong In 2010,
Computer science staff writer Ben Brubaker unpacks what computer science is all about and discusses highlights from his reporting over the past year. Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View th
Published by Lars Kappert on June 28, 2024 This is a story in 3 parts about OSS and me: how it started, how we got here, and how it’s going. Soon after the first “View Source” in Internet Explorer 5.0
More aspirants of high status than society can sustain A university graduation ceremony in Ottawa, Canada (2016) Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the conditi
In a startup that sells software, what is the “business” side of the company? When I worked in retail, developing software for internal use, there was a clear division between the engineering teams in
For new folk here, hi, I’m Alex Mackenzie, a partner at Tapestry. I’d love to hear from any of you reading along: alex@tapestry.vc A special thanks to Simon and the cool folk at turbopuffer for the pl
Pew Research Center has gathered data around some of this year’s most pivotal news stories, from the U.S. presidential election and international conflicts to debates over immigration and the role of
Say what you will about Amazon Web Services, but the cloud giant has been able to scale its systems and services for more than two decades now, continually introducing new features while keeping the u
Google’s Pixel earbuds have always felt like a work in progress. The first-gen Pixel Buds was too futuristic for its time, the 2020 edition wasn’t reliable or comfortable, and the 2022 Pixel Buds Pro
for programmers, and people who like to know things Author: Kevin Bourrillion Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. —Ray Cummings It’s hard to write much code without encountering the
In the early 1990s, there was a lull in the lucrative tradition of college comedies. Sensing an opportunity, 20th Century Fox greenlit PCU, a low-budget film that featured a cast of largely unknown ac
Subscribe Wherever You Get Your Podcasts Catch this episode and the full season of College Matters on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. In This Episode In 1994, a movie called PCU opened in theaters to lit
When you get started with finetuning AI models, you typically pull the datasets and models from somewhere like the Hugging Face Hub. This is generally fine, but as your usecase grows and gets more com
Shivika Sabharwal’s nerves kicked in the second she spotted the size of the crowd. It was mid-September, and Sabharwal was standing center stage inside a massive event space at Mumbai’s extravagant Ji
Because as technological advancements push the internet to grow and morph into something ever more Byzantine, there are so many more opportunities to be annoying By • - There are so many ways to be on
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images OpenAI is finishing out the year with a spectacle: the “12 Days of Openai” — a.k.a. “Shipmas,” as in shipping products — began last week, promisi
2024-12-10 • 2523 words • 14 minutes • #parsing • #formats Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? JSON is extremely popular but deeply flawed. This article discusses the details of
As I write this, thinking about how much branding has changed in ten years, a couple of developments seem worth mentioning off the top. Absolut Vodka has recently launched a limited-edition line calle
“Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny,” the great marine biologist
Reviews By 2024-12-10T17:00:00+00:00 Timothee Chalamet captures the enigmatic spirit of Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s riveting biopic Source: Searchlight Pictures ‘A Complete Unknown’ Dir: James Mangol
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last month a major shareholder of a publicly traded company t
Performance measurement is one of the most important parts of software development. In academic research a thorough performance evaluation is considered essential for many publications to prove the va
despicable UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. Beth Mole – Nov 16, 2023
The Cold War has been followed by the class war. A transatlantic class war has broken out simultaneously in many countries between elites based in the corporate, financial, and professional sectors an
Feature | December 2, 2024 Blu-ray DVD Share this Article: Between the late 90s and mid-2000s, home releases were often imaginatively packaged and stuffed with extras. We take a look back at the DVD b
For thousands of years, humans sought to subjugate their enemies by inflicting pain, misery, and terror. They did this because these were the most paralyzing emotions they could consistently evoke; al
Medicare Advantage – the commercial alternative to traditional Medicare – is drawing down federal health care funds, costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of US$83 billion a year. Me
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As photographers, one of the first things we learn is that we should always shoot in raw. This gives us the most flexibility and data to work with in editing, with the drawback being large file sizes
Summary Misinformation remains a major concern, especially on social media. Across ten studies analyzing more than a million social-media posts, Kellogg’s William Brady and colleagues find that misinf
A Python script is a file intended for standalone execution, e.g., with python .py. Using uv to execute scripts ensures that script dependencies are managed without manually managing environme
Researchers have developed a web plug-in to help those looking to protect their mental health make more informed decisions. Jarret Bencks | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Press Contact: Ja
Mac OS X is only partially related to its predecessors - large parts of OS X were imported from Apple’s acquisition of NeXTSTEP, which had a different kernel and design from Mac OS 9. This is signific
Here’s a little secret: I’m terrible at swimming. As a kid, I took swimming lessons up to AquaQuest 3 (which seems to be equivalent to Red Cross 1), but I stopped because I was never comfortable with
Recently, I took David Beazley’s Rafting trip, an intensive course on distributed systems. It was a surprisingly wonderful time, and I want to organize my thoughts about it on paper since it might cha
decoupling yourself building a resilient identity system Here’s my theory. Hobbies are microservices for people. Without a hobby, you could become too dependent on your job. Without a hobby, your self
Jeff Bezos is tired of people judging him solely by his ranking among the world's billionaires. The Amazon founder argues there’s an “overfocus” in American society on where he sits in relation to oth
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