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With polls showing most Americans unhappy with the economy, President Trump is offering a portrait of national prosperity that many voters may not recognize.

Доброго времени суток, дорогие читатели. Этот вопрос мучает меня уже на протяжении двух недель — с того момента, как я вернулся в шахматы и решил заглянуть в топ-100 FIDE. К своему удивлению, я не обнаружил там ни одной женщины. Меня очень заинтересовала эта тема, и я решил начать свой писательский‑научный путь.
В ней я подробно разберу, почему людей с выдающимися достижениями в науке, спорте и искусстве среди мужчин статистически больше, если сравнивать их с общим объемом открытий человечества. В ходе аргументации я буду опираться на сухие научные концепции и факты, которые продемонстрируют ответ на данный вопрос абсолютно без моего вмешательства и оценочного суждения.

Replacing diesel-powered ferries with electric vessels could reduce emissions and improve air quality

Cutting through New York Harbor in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, the small white boat we were riding on caught the attention of passengers aboard a nearby sightseeing ferry.

“It’s quite a curiosity at the moment,” Eric Laakmann, the chief executive and co-founder of Vessev, said.

Climate Central is an independent group of scientists and communicators who research and report the facts about our changing climate and how it affects people’s lives.

Elizabeth Warren and others joined by unions and industry experts in warning against the weakening of regulations

The senator Elizabeth Warren, the congresswoman Ilhan Omar and several other Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) to abandon a rollback of respirator mask regulations, a change the lawmakers say would weaken worker protections against hazardous substances.

Under the proposed rules, employers would face fewer requirements to provide workers with respirators masks when working with substances including “lead, asbestos, formaldehyde and inorganic arsenic, among other chemicals”, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Osha assistant secretary, David Keeling, a former UPS and Amazon executive.

With his poll numbers tanking and his behavior getting odder, the remark seems more appealing to himself than to voters

As he criss-crosses the nation, stumping for Republican candidates, Donald Trump keeps asking voters to use their imaginations.

“In this election, I’m asking you to pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. Just pretend,” he urged at a Kansas rally as he campaigned for the incumbent senator Roger Marshall and gubernatorial challenger Ty Masterson last month.

At Norfolk’s ‘premier scare attraction’ there are ghouls, chainsaws, satanic cults and a haunted hospital. But what goes on behind the scenes?

‘We always say to the scare actors, you’re going to think the boys will be the worst. They are not.” Backstage at PrimEvil, billed as “Norfolk’s premier scare attraction”, park director Ben Francis is sharing the advice he gives each year to his new crop of performers, before they set out to give punters the fright of their lives – or at least their Saturday night. As Francis covers each demographic, he ticks them off on his fingers. Teenage boys “scream like banshees, and run in packs”. Teenage girls tend towards being unimpressed: “Do your scare and move on, because they will get nasty.” And mixed groups? “There will be an alpha and he’ll be wearing a North Face top.” Francis’s advice is to not waste time. “He will not react to anything … Aim for the weaker one at the back.”

This is part of the workplace induction at PrimEvil, one of many immersive “scream parks” that pop up across the UK in the lead up to Halloween. For about £40 a ticket, groups of all ages spend the night roaming themed attractions and being terrorised by actors and special effects. Though the risks are minimal, the spikes in heart rate are very real.

‘It’s the best form of therapy and you get paid to do it’ … park director Ben Francis

The ex-presidential candidate tells Democrats to prosecute corruption and bring real change for the working class

A corporate plutocracy. A broken healthcare system. Massive and widening inequality. Cash-soaked elections. Angry people struggling to pay their bills and disgusted with lawmakers in Washington DC.

Nearly everything that pushed famed consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader to launch the 2000 presidential run that made him a political pariah in Washington is front and center as the US gears up for the 2026 midterm elections. But this time, things are much, much worse.

The far-right candidate was supposed to claim the presidency, but Brazilian voters had other ideas

For Donald Trump, Brazil’s presidential election was meant to represent the crest of the “orange wave” – a three-year surge of rightwing triumphs that has reshaped Latin American politics in the US president’s tangerine-hued image.

The far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, was supposed to claim the presidency on Sunday, bringing the region’s biggest democracy and economy into Trump’s orbit, after similar victories in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Ecuador and Peru – not to mention the capture of Venezuela’s government after the country was invaded in January.

Привет, Хабр!

Кто нибудь уже получал такие письма счастья? Причина - страна, оно и понятно, я вообще почитал что они начали массово банить за подключение через VPN и даже не разбираются что стоит за этим туннелем. Китай много так же банят. Я активно пользовался (около 5 часов в сутки) больше года активно и тут еще сгорела подписка за 100$.

Деньги - это неприятно, конечно... Но для меня более важно: проекты, переписки, решения, объяснения, почему мы выбрали именно такой вариант, где уже обкакались. Конкретный объем контекста меня в широком смысле: и работы, и личных вопросов.

IT драма с элементами комедии

Фриланс манит свободой — к черту офис! Теперь ты сам себе начальник! Однако свобода эта обманчива. Вот вроде сидишь ты, работаешь дома, тебе тепло и сухо, и начальства над тобой нет, и никто не мешает, ты один... совсем один. И отвечаешь за все ты. А время уже далеко за полночь, А код выкидывает исключения, а Django ORM отказывается вывозить нагрузку, а все варианты архитектуры сулят скорее минусы, а таймер биржи неумолимо тикает. Тик‑тик‑тик... И нужно уже что‑то решать, но помочь некому — психов нет.

Привет, Хабр! Хотелось бы начать статью с такого вопроса: кто из нас еще не использовал чат ассистентов в своей работе и повседневной жизни? Вот и мы, команда Джеймикс, постоянно используем ИИ-агентов и ассистентов в своей рутине. Кто с нами не знаком — мы (Джеймикс, Jmix) open-source  платформа с ИИ-инструментами для стандартизации разработки корпоративных приложений на Java. И так уж вышло, что у нас есть потребность в постоянной поддержке нашего сообщества в эксплуатации и разработке на нашей же технологии. На это мы постоянно выделяли одного разработчика-дежурного, который отвечал на все вопросы наших клиентов. Понимаете куда ведет это повествование? Конечно же, как только появились языковые модели, которые научились сносно отвечать на технические темы — сразу же возникла идея о делегировании самых базовых и простых вопросов ИИ. Ну и, конечно же, мы на поезде хайпа еще в конце 2023-го года создали собственного ИИ-ассистента на базе ChatGPT 4, который отвечал на темы, связанные только с платформой Джеймикса.

Время шло, мы вводили небольшие продуктовые изменения и наш ассистент стал что-то вроде системы индексатора и поисковика для мозга-нейросети. Нас устраивала точность ответов нашего ассистента — но был нюанс. Индексатор-поисковик был нужен еще для внешних агентов, которые вызывали его через отдельный MCP — и тут было больше подводных камней.

И вот прошло 3 года, и мы решили задать вопрос с подвохом (ну бывает же такое, когда хочется спросить что-то каверзное у ИИ). Звучал вопрос так: “какое значение repeatCount заставит таймер сработать пять раз”. Ассистент уверенно выдал готовый XML, хотя такого атрибута в Jmix нет. Чтобы ИИ-ассистент отвечал точнее, мы перестроили поиск. 

Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming across the 2026 primaries, and one thing I’m hearing from a voice on the ground. And be sure to check your inboxes this coming Wednesday for a special post-midterms edition! Let’s get into it.

One big idea: Talk of a blue wave makes it less likely 

We’re in the thick of what I’ve come to call the silly season of an election cycle. Just days out from November 3 — but weeks into early voting — this is often the time when predictions, analysis, and expectation setting from both parties gets laundered through the media; and is most disconnected from the data. Why? Reasons vary — but I mostly find it an effort to proactively explain the expected results. 

For example: in expectation of Democratic Party success, we’re seeing a wave of stories that preemptively explain how that support materialized and what implications it carries. Nate Silver declared on Ezra Klein’s podcast that next Tuesday could mark the “end of the Trump era” if Republicans perform as badly as the polls suggest. Democratic factions are already trying to claim credit for populist messages on corruption and affordability or moderation on cultural issues in red states that they expect to deliver big wins.

Surely, our reporting on America, Actually also speaks to the possibility of this result: We’ve tracked President Donald Trump’s unpopularity from the beginning of the year, when MAGA radio host John Fredericks said the administration’s handling of the Epstein files was ruining its credibility. We’ve gone to Trump’s UFC event in Washington, DC, where young men told us they’d turned on the president after the Iran war. We’ve been to a Speedway in a battleground district in Pennsylvania, where Trump’s own voters said the high price of gas felt like a betrayal from a president who promised to do the opposite. 

However, in this post, I wanted to consider one reason why we all could be making a familiar mistake. In the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections there were similar expectations of an anti-Trump wave that never fully materialized, even as he lost that second run. And this isn’t just a criticism of the polls: Some of that overperformance, I suspect, has to do with Republicans’ electoral strategy. 

Let me explain: Fear has become Republicans’ one and only source of voter motivation. GOP candidates are not engaging in debates, virtually hiding from the campaign trail, and not really offering a competing vision against their Democratic opponents. They are simply seeking to scare voters about what a Democratic congressional voters may mean, whether it’s the recent freakout about Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s relatively tame promise about accountability for Trump’s enablers, or the rank Islamophobia we’re seeing deployed against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, or the endless ads warning candidates will pursue some radical LGBTQ agenda.

Still, just because something is unseemly (or bigoted) doesn’t mean it’s not an effective electoral strategy, and it should be noted that conjuring up fears about women and minority candidates may be the oldest (and most successful) electioneering tactic in the book. And a big part of these attacks is an explicit or implied argument that, whatever you might think of the Republican or Democrat in an individual race, a big Democratic majority would have the power — and feel emboldened by their success — to go way further than you should be comfortable with for years to come.

Here’s what I’m saying: Over the years, I’ve found the No. 1 motivator of Republican voters on Election Day to be the expectation of a Democratic wave. That is, after months of coverage that focuses on Democrats leading the polls and issues with Republican unity and enthusiasm, the exact focus causes Republicans to, eventually, come out on Election Day. It’s not that the polls missed white working-class voters (though they sometimes do) or even that Republican signs of base dissatisfaction were wrong (plenty of them really were unhappy with Trump in 2016). It’s more that, for many GOP voters, dissatisfaction with their own party will usually be overcome by their disdain for their liberal opponents and a nervousness that they might change the country in ways that can’t be reversed later on. The Democratic base is often seeking inspiration; the GOP base is largely motivated by fear.

Here’s what John Fredericks, the radio host, told me for our upcoming episode about the GOP’s “final argument”: 

“These fake polls came out over the summer. Democrats are going to win. Democrats are going to win. Trump is down… It was like a fake news, fake poll, full court press that went on for months, that has now motivated MAGA voters out of fear to turn out.”

And to some degree — I believe him. To me, this is a clear reason why Republicans often outperform their low expectations. But it’s also a reason to step away from the takes of electoral silly season, especially with Election Day just around the corner. Voters can consider the issues themselves; there’s no need for constant speculation about the results that overly raises expectations for one side or panics the other.

We already have the scope of information we’ll get: Democrats are well-positioned to take back the House. They’ve expanded the map in the Senate elections and in governor’s races across the country. They’ve done so with a relentless focus on affordability and lowering prices, eschewing the talk of climate change and social issues for priorities that are more tangible to their base. 

But that doesn’t mean there’s a cakewalk to a blue wave. And if anything, the expectation of its arrival may make it more hard to accomplish.  

What I’m hearing

This week, we spoke with Mikella Schuettler, a Report for America corps member with the Associated Press in Arizona. She’s been covering how federal policy changes to benefits affect different communities, including refugees and other legal immigrants. 

You reported on refugees and other legal immigrants losing Medicaid coverage. Who is affected, and what have you heard from families about what losing that coverage means for them? 

My reporting focused on people including refugees, victims of human trafficking, and others who were granted legal asylum, pushed from Medicaid as a result of last year’s tax and spending reductions bill that Republicans often refer to as the One Big Beautiful Bill. Coverage has generally not been available to undocumented immigrants, but it’s been standard to offer legal immigrants, including those who are fleeing wars or genocide, healthcare coverage in order to support their entry into the country. 

I spoke to a family who entered the US on a T-visa, which is a special visa for victims of human trafficking. Their 17-year-old son got into a car accident five years ago and requires various machines and medications in order to survive, but without Medicaid coverage they won’t be able to pay for almost any of his care. When I spoke to them, they were unsure of how long he would be able to live. His mother told me she believed the Trump administration was attempting to make it so difficult for immigrants, even legal ones, to live in the US that people will self-deport. Though she understands this, she knows her son won’t survive traveling back to Mexico either. 

How are people finding out about these changes, and what options do they have when their coverage ends? 

In Arizona, people received letters in the mail anywhere from about two months to just days before their coverage was cut. Additionally, if people have somehow missed these letters (perhaps they haven’t updated their addresses), it’s possible they’ll only discover they’ve been cut when they go to receive care. If the state has accurately assessed a person’s immigration status, there is no opportunity to appeal the decision once cut. 

In Arizona, unlike many other states, the cuts also impacted some lawfully present children. 

I spoke to a single mother whose son has autism and was frustrated because she felt abandoned by the system with no way to appeal. Medicaid pays for a speech pathologist and some additional support after school, which allows her to work in a long-term care home. She received the notification that her son’s coverage was ending in the mail about a week before the deadline. At first, she told me she felt relieved because she knows all her immigration papers are in order. She was shocked to find even though she’s working, paying taxes, and legally entered the country, there was no way to appeal this decision.

In your reporting, are people connecting these changes to decisions in Washington? How, if at all, is that showing up in conversations about the midterms? 

None of the people I spoke to can vote in the federal election. However, I’ve spent the last week speaking to voters across Phoenix, and healthcare is a galvanizing topic for both Republicans and Democrats. Over the past few years, federal prosecutors in Arizona have found countless instances of people defrauding the Medicaid system, raking in millions of dollars to run addiction rehabilitation centers that either don’t exist or don’t provide the care they allege. This has really angered a lot of people and soured attitude towards the Medicaid system in general. 

At the same time, the stories I’ve heard from people who rely on coverage are indicative of what future cuts could look like. In January, states will implement various work requirements that are projected to force millions of US citizens off Medicaid, requiring them to prove employment before getting coverage again. These cuts coming down the pipeline after the midterms are also a major concern for voters in Arizona, who worry emergency rooms will be overrun by people who aren’t insured.  

Я замерила 170 IT-каналов с вакансиями в Telegram по открытым данным. В каналах больше 50 тысяч подписчиков пост видит каждый двадцатый, в нишевых до 5 тысяч каждый шестой. Внутри: как проверить канал за 10 секунд, таблица по 15 стекам, 20 самых живых каналов и признаки мошенников

From a young chef and a single father to business owners and a pensioner, Guardian readers reveal how John Healey’s measures will affect them

• What the budget means for you

Louie, 24, a chef living in London, says a lot of people have “written off the idea of even considering getting a property” in their 20s.

Агент уже пишет код за нас, но с автоматизацией для бизнеса всё иначе: он косячит на каждом шаге, в JSON-трейсе тысячи вызовов, а переписанный промпт вы даже не заметите. Я перестал перепроверять агента вручную — загнал его в жёсткие рамки: wrapper над Pydantic AI, MCP-инструменты, скиллы и Studio с отладчиком. Рассказываю, почему иначе нельзя, и показываю код.

Видеоигры для ребенка могут быть дорогим хобби – нужно купить приставку или мощный компьютер, тратить деньги и время на походы в клуб, покупать внутриигровую валюту и предметы. 

Но для единиц такое хобби может превратиться в работу, приносящую существенный доход. Это касается побед на киберспортивных турнирах (у кого-то они исчисляются миллионами долларов), разработки собственных игр и стриминга. 

Собрал несколько примеров школьников, которые добились успеха на этом поприще. 

Дисклеймер – статья сделана точно не для того, чтобы кто-то бросил учебу!

Привет, Хабр!

Каждый, кто работает с удаленными машинами, знает эту боль. Ты подключаешься к серверу, у которого три монитора, а AnyDesk или TeamViewer показывают тебе один общий экран. Или того хуже — заставляют переключаться между ними. Работать с базами данных или версткой в таких условиях — это пытка.

Так родилась идея написать свою программу для удаленного доступа. Без тяжелых Electron.js оберток, весом в 200 МБ, а нативное приложение на Win32 API, которое весит меньше мегабайта и показывает каждый монитор в отдельном окне.

В этой статье я расскажу, как мы (я и нейросети) строили OmniDesk с нуля, какие костыли пришлось изобретать для буфера обмена и почему TCP_NODELAY — это спасение.

Современная ИТ‑индустрия уперлась в итерационный тупик. Мы сжигаем гигаватты энергии на серверных фермах, забиваем ядра процессоров тяжелыми legacy‑алгоритмами сложности O(N²) и бесконечно плодим прослойки абстрактного софта. Как результат — интерфейсы и игры умудряются тормозить даже на мощном флагманском железе. Но что, если поток данных — это не просто мертвый набор байт, а физическое поле векторов давления среды?

В этой статье представлен полный разбор неделимого 4-элементного вычислительного конвейера, работающего по принципу децентрализованного сжатия хаоса на базе фрактальной формулы 2N+1. Весь контур — от считывания контекста до финального действия — спроектирован, оптимизирован и протестирован в консоли Termux на обычном Android‑смартфоне, доказывая: для реализации автономных сверхбыстрых систем безопасности и обработки медиапотоков больше не нужны датацентры.

На одном из 22 архивных дисков видеосервера посыпались ошибки SMART. На диске — 760 ГБ записей за полтора месяца, а штатный путь Macroscop «перестань писать на диск и дождись, пока архив устареет» занимает 90 дней.

Рассказываю, как мы перенесли архив в виртуальный диск, остановив Macroscop всего на несколько минут. Что нашлось в архиве по дороге: камеры, которые занимают лицензии и ничего не пишут, гигабайты забытых копий конфигурации, старый PostgreSQL. И почему из этого получилась открытая утилита для администраторов Macroscop — с отчётами, очисткой и мониторингом в Zabbix.

Исходный код: github.com/D3vil787/MacroscopArchiveTool

Как поддерживать PostgreSQL и MSSQL в одном приложении, сохраняя единую кодовую базу?

На примере iLocks Online разбираем выбор провайдера в EF Core, отдельные наборы миграций, различия в последовательностях, типах данных и именовании объектов. Рассказываем, что необходимо проверять на обеих СУБД и почему подключения двух провайдеров недостаточно для полноценной совместимости.