In the summer of 2014, I gave birth to a baby boy. He was born with a perfect Apgar score, after a very easy delivery. But my labor had not been smooth—in fact, throughout the day and a half of contractions, I believed there was something decidedly wrong. I also felt that way as I held him for the…

Igor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, so Schwarzmann often finds himself moving between poles of the…

Building hybrid search with Elastisearch requires wrestling with one of the hairiest queries out there - the knn query. Indeed it’s marked as an “expert level” feature, and under active development for good reason. I’ve stubbed my toe a bunch, so let me walk you through how I’ve arrived at effective…

How are we still shocked? China is using the same tools that built America in the first place: state-led investment, industrial policy, and actually planning for the future. What’s shocking isn’t what China has accomplished—it’s how little we’ve done to keep up. This isn’t a partisan issue. Donald…

The idioms of free jazz and fusion are perpetually controversial. The Ken Burns PBS documentary Jazz, which codified a certain narrative of jazz history in the public imagination, did what it could to ignore both. The story Burns tells suggests that jazz was in hibernation between the death of…

Greenberg’s analysis was steeped in the anxious postmortems that the party launched after Reagan’s powerful new coalition made strong inroads among Democrats in the 1980s. But the presuppositions behind his counsel reflected a constrained and fast-obsolescing view of working-class politics and…

David French Feb. 9, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET Credit...Hannah McKay/Reuters Listen to this article · 14:11 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist Steve Bannon made me laugh out loud. I was listening to my colleague Ross Douthat’s excellent, informative interview with President Trump’s former chief…

How do you fit a 250kB dictionary in 64kB of RAM and still perform fast lookups? For reference, even with modern compression techniques like gzip -9, you can't compress this file below 85kB. In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy faced this exact challenge while implementing the spell checker for Unix at…

On a warm Saturday in August of 2024, Raphaël Maillochon was celebrating his son’s first birthday when he got a message from one of his sources. Maillochon, a 34-year-old crime reporter for the French broadcaster TF1, was used to contacts in law enforcement pinging him on the weekend. They liked…

A short, somewhat parochial post today. I’ll return to the big issues tomorrow. But it’s Sunday, so let’s take a break from the big picture and talk about traffic — specifically, New York’s new congestion pricing and the people who want to kill it. A bit over a month has passed since New York City…

Thunderbolt 5 is not supported everywhere yet, but if your computer can handle it, it's much faster and more capable than previous connectivity standards. CalDigit has just released a successor to its great Thunderbolt 4 hub, and the new Thunderbolt 5 version looks just as good. CalDigit has…

I was watching a documentary the other night—I’m not going to say which one here, because it was good and intelligent overall, and the filmmakers might be reading this—and got annoyed immediately because it was steeped in the same storytelling cliches as so many other documentaries made nowadays. It…

Destinations United States Florida Florida's Tallest Lighthouse Is A Giant Beacon Of History Offering The Most Scenic Coastal Views By Feb. 8, 2025 9:00 am EST Michael612/Shutterstock If you like nautical iconography and are fascinated by the maritime marvels that are lighthouses, Florida's…

Thunderbolt 5 is not supported everywhere yet, but if your computer can handle it, it's much faster and more capable than previous connectivity standards. CalDigit has just released a successor to its great Thunderbolt 4 hub, and the new Thunderbolt 5 version looks just as good. CalDigit has…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Court Fight: During internal meetings, a political appointee said Trump could not have a higher tolerance for legal risk. Law-Breaking: Then…

${intro} ${title} ${lead} ${intro} ${title} ${lead} ${content} Contents Hard disk fraud: Increasing evidence of origin in China Recently, many online retailers have sent out Seagate hard disks as new that have already been running somewhere for many, many hours. As yet unknown fraudsters had reset…

In December 2020, Amazon announced with great fanfare that it would use Gaudi chips from the small Israeli startup Habana Labs to train its large language models (LLMs) in the cloud. Although generative AI was not yet a household term at the time, it was a major development in the ecosystem. Intel,…

Last week, I happened on a tweet from Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe and the excellent Stripe Press) reflecting on the ten classic “triple-decker” novels that he’d just finished reading: This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak…

Written By: Ami John 03/02/2025 Anime’s presence is undeniable. From Tokyo to New York to London, the genre has swept across the globe, especially in the wake of the pandemic. Comic Cons around the world are seeing bigger crowds each year, a clear sign of anime’s rising popularity and cultural…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. In 1933, the author Isadore Luce Smith made a bold declaration in The Atlantic: “A new type of parent has evolved.” These parents, Smith…

Back when the EOS R7 was announced in 2022, there were immediate rumors about a Canon EOS R7 C. We’re confident that such a camera was on the roadmap but was cancelled before it ever came to market. Products do get cancelled. We expect to see a Canon EOS R7 Mark II in the second half of 2025. No…

If you’re anything like me, it’s aperture priority, manual mode or the highway. And to that end, I’ve completely ignored Canon's Fv mode, which debuted on the manufacturer’s first full-frame mirrorless camera, the Canon EOS R. But despite being the first creative zone shooting mode in over four…

Remember when we OWNED things? I’m not talking about houses and cars being affordable, I’m talking about a time before the tyranny of subscription fees. You didn’t pay monthly fees for the right to see a movie – you owned a disc with the movie on it and it belonged to you for your entire life. Your…

Careers December 26, 2019 Caspar Benson/Getty Images Summary. Many people with high-pressure jobs find themselves unhappy with their careers, despite working hard their whole lives to get to their current position. Hating your job is one thing – but what happens if you identify so closely with your…

Search Books The X-Man How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain. September 11, 2023 Day by day, Musk’s companies control more of the Internet, the power grid, the transportation system, objects in orbit, the nation’s security infrastructure, and its energy supply.Photograph by Mark…

As we may think Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery. Benj Edwards – Feb 7, 2025 4:10 pm | 14 Credit: Amr Bo Shanab / rudall30 / Benj Edwards Credit: Amr Bo Shanab / rudall30 /…

Composition X, Kandinsky Recently, I’ve come to the realization that much of what we do in modern software development is not true software engineering. We spend the majority of our days trying to configure OpenSprocket 2.3.1 to work with NeoGidgetPro5, both of which were developed by two different…

Ben Stiller took his entire production crew hours out of the way to return to a small, Hudson Valley diner. He says the trip was "totally worth it". Don't feel bad if you haven't been to Ben Stiller's favorite Hudson Valley diner. If you're not a local, it's likely you haven't even heard about it,…

Share Published Feb. 08, 2025 • 8:30am Around 300 people gathered in the pews of the Internet Archive auditorium Friday in San Francisco to witness Pablo Peniche, head of growth for the startup Aqua Voice, unveil a marble bust of Aaron Swartz, the legendary programmer, activist, and open-access…

Last night I noted news which has spread like wildfire through the American scientific and medical research communities. The NIH released a seemingly down-in-the-weeds new directive which has the effect of drastically reducing the federal funds that go to institutions doing basic medical research.…