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Exclusive: Record temperatures fuelled by climate crisis left 86% of homes ‘too hot’ and many people feeling unwell

With parts of England once again in the grip of a heatwave, an opinion poll shows the one at the end of June led to “mass sleep deprivation”, with two in three people struggling to sleep during the sweltering nights.

Almost half of people said they had lost at least three hours of sleep each night. The results are consistent with scientific research showing that global heating is damaging sleep across the world.

Мы создаем софт для горно-геологических служб калийных рудников, и после первой статьи про [кригинг на чистом NumPy](https://habr.com/ru/articles/1055612/) самый частый вопрос звучал одинаково: «Хорошо, а какой именно кригинг брать?» Вопрос правильный: под словом «кригинг» живёт целое семейство методов, и выбор между ними влияет на результат сильнее, чем тонкая настройка вариограммы. В плагине Isoliner их пять - простой, ординарный, с полиномиальным трендом, блочный и индикаторный, - и каждый существует не для галочки, а под конкретный класс геологических задач.

Под катом - разбор всех пяти на живых примерах калийного месторождения: когда какой, какие параметры за что отвечают, как это выглядит в коде и на каких ошибках спотыкаются чаще всего.

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## Общая механика: что меняется, а что нет

Напомню каркас из первой статьи: оценка в точке - взвешенная сумма соседних скважин, веса - решение системы уравнений с ковариациями из вариограммы:

```python

s = np.linalg.solve(A, r)   # A - ковариации соседей между собой,

w = s[:na]                  # r - ковариации соседей с точкой оценки

est = float(np.dot(w, vra))

```

Все пять видов кригинга решают эту систему. Различаются они тем, что считается неизвестным про среднее поле и что именно оценивается - точка, блок или вероятность. Это и есть ключ к выбору.

## Простой кригинг (SK): среднее известно

Простой кригинг предполагает, что среднее значение поля вам известно заранее и постоянно по площади. Тогда система решается без дополнительных условий, а недобор веса соседей компенсируется этим средним:

Давайте честно — и да, и нет.
Этот вопрос возникает у каждого Go‑разработчика, который начинает использовать sqlc. Генератор кода создаёт отличные типизированные запросы, но как правильно интегрировать их в архитектуру приложения?

Стоит ли оборачивать сгенерированный Querier в ручной слой репозиториев, чтобы соблюсти «букву» чистой архитектуры, или использовать его напрямую в сервисах (use cases), следуя принципу KISS?

Мы разберём эту дилемму через призму пяти ключевых перспектив: SOLID (все 5 принципов), идиомы Go, DDD, тестирование и скорость разработки.

Пару недель назад я рассказывал здесь, как три ночи чинил рендер, который не был сломан. С тех пор в главном ничего не изменилось: я по-прежнему энтузиаст, а не разработчик; код печатает машина, а что и зачем печатать, решаю я. Правда, машин в этот раз было две: код писала Claude Opus 4.8 в режиме ultracode с рассуждением, выкрученным на максимум (xhigh), а вторая — Fable 5 — атаковала приложение. Об этом ближе к концу. Изменилось всё остальное. Typhoonminigen — бесплатное open-source (MIT) нативное macOS-приложение для локальной генерации FLUX.2 Klein на Apple Silicon, без Python, без ComfyUI, без облака — доросло до версии 2.0: 57 новых функций, 150+ исправлений. Про них и статья. Но начать придётся не с функций, а с признания: самый живучий баг приложения сидел не в коде. Он сидел во мне.

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

Two tests that can dramatically speed up diagnosis of endometriosis are to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales, in a move hailed as a “gamechanger” for millions of women.

One in 10 women of reproductive age are affected by the condition, where tissue similar to that found in the womb lining grows elsewhere, such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes. Symptoms include painful periods, painful bowel movements, pain when urinating and pain during or after sex.

By selling AI glasses as aspirational, cool and fashion-forward, tech elites are trying to pacify their entry into the mainstream world

We have a habit of dismissing social media trends as inane and vapid while ignoring the disturbing undercurrent. A few weeks ago I was reminded of that when I saw an Instagram carousel by British fashion personality Alexa Chung. Shared with her 6 million followers, she showed different outfits through screenshots of herself entering and leaving her home on her security camera. Rita Ora commented, “Good angle keep this series going”. Security system company Ring commented, “Fit checks on Ring cam? Next level.”

The post caught my eye among the feed of curated noise, a counterculture take on the traditional iPhone outfit photo. Its presumed effortlessness felt intimate and off the cuff. Social media loves that sort of thing.

Our new PM will be hit by multiple crises when he enters No 10. Success or failure will depend on the decisions he makes in first 100 days

On the day the new prime minister steps into No 10, the heap on his doormat will be ceiling-high with missives imploring, advising, warning and counselling. No doubt there will be many pearls of wisdom and some bad ideas too. Each one will involve getting or spending money, decisions for his first totemic 100 days.

It so happens that his first day, 20 July, is the first week of school summer holidays in England and Wales. As he walks into Downing Street, millions of children will leave the school gates “walking into nothing”, as one child told the Children’s Society. Lonely, isolated, caring for siblings, many hungry, some at risk – for those children, six weeks will loom ahead with Covid-like emptiness, home alone as parents work, no splashing in the sunlit waves of the holiday ads.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

I joined Marilyn Monroe, Walter White, Ozzy Osbourne and other tribute artists on a cruise where imitation is its own art form

INT. DECK 7, LE CABARET ROUGE, 11.37pm

Frank Sinatra, palming a can of Sprite in one hand and the fist of his beautiful red-headed wife in the other, sat in a dark corner across from Jeff Bezos, who looked like he was waiting for him to say something. But Sinatra said nothing. He’d been mostly quiet all evening, and now in this cabaret he seemed even more distant, staring out past fog and strobe and Bezos’s strong bald head and into the large room where at least half a dozen men had basically shattered a bistro table trying to get a better look at Marilyn Monroe. Sinatra’s wife knew, as did Roy Orbison and Austin Powers, who stood nearby, that it was only minutes before he was supposed to go onstage, and that forcing any sort of conversation on him in this mood of focus would be extremely stupid.

Collector of dream stories from across continent finds ‘surprising consistency’ in the way they are structured

A young woman discovers in a dream that she is responsible for the Holocaust and tries to come up with schemes to make amends – and then gets distracted by a business meeting. Another woman dreams she is being chased by murderers – and ends up chilling in front of the TV with them. A man gets to advise Emmanuel Macron on social policy – and talks to him about haircuts and dog training instead.

Dreams can turn our innermost fears and darkest fantasies into miniature dramas. But an anthology of recollected dreams harvested from online forums across Europe shows how the story arc of the subconscious often bends towards anticlimaxes.

The formidable actor talks about the challenge of finding meaty characters, tough times in the US – and co-starring with her dad’s hero Kenneth Branagh in The Cherry Orchard

It’s lunchtime in Stratford-upon-Avon and Helen Hunt has 30 minutes to spare. She’s preparing for her Royal Shakespeare Company debut and is taking time out to speak to me via Zoom, just her head and shoulders, with what looks like a sleek-surfaced kitchen in the backdrop. Hunt is all sleek surfaces herself: polite smiles, even tones and an inscrutability so strained it makes me wonder what might be bubbling underneath.

Hunt is starring alongside Kenneth Branagh and Bill Pullman in a new version of The Cherry Orchard. She plays Madame Ranevskaya, the Russian aristocrat and matriarch who returns home to find her family estate in jeopardy. The play, like so many of Chekhov’s, is about the apathy of the elite class in the dying days of the Russian empire. So why this play, for her, and why now?

The collision was catastrophic. Jane Ouartsi suffered a fractured collarbone, two spinal fractures, a broken femur that took three operations to fix, and she had to learn to walk again like a baby. Why has no one taken responsibility for her life-changing injuries?

As Jane Ouartsi walked across a pedestrianised square in central London, on a Friday evening in early August three years ago, she linked arms with her partner, Dave Mathias, and told him how much she had enjoyed the afternoon they had spent together, eating pizza in Soho and visiting an art installation. It was the last time she can remember feeling properly happy and relaxed.

“We were walking quite slowly, talking about the art. It’s hard to remember exactly, but I think I was saying what a lovely lunch, and then all of a sudden there was a horrific impact,” she says. “I felt my spine and body split and I thought my life was over.”

Wars in Iran and Ukraine have expended stockpiles of sought-after missiles, leaving gap in military resources

There are growing concerns in Europe that the US defence industrial base is no longer providing the weapons pledged to Nato allies with US stockpiles depleted owing to the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, leaving allies to consider new avenues to arm and defend themselves.

As Nato leaders including the US president, Donald Trump, convene in Ankara, Turkey, the US plans to address European defence spending and concerns over the Trump administration’s future commitment to the military alliance.

Ukraine’s drone and missile campaign on oil infrastructure has brought impact of war to citizens of Moscow and elsewhere

Five hours into the queue, tempers were already fraying at the gas station. Then a black Audi Q7 swept past dozens of waiting cars and pulled straight up to the pumps. Within minutes, motorists were shouting, mobile phones were recording and a police officer had drawn his pistol to calm the crowds.

The confrontation, filmed on Saturday night at a filling station in the Siberian town of Ust-Ordynsky, captured the growing frustration over Russia’s worsening fuel shortages, which have spread across a country that remains one of the world’s largest oil producers.

Thousands of women are killed in dowry disputes each year, despite the practice being banned in 1961

Dowry deaths in India no longer provoke the public anger they once did, despite thousands of women’s lives still being lost every year, according to new research.

The killings – women who are murdered or driven to suicide following dowry disputes between families – have also faded from political debate, despite an increase in cases.

Leader of France’s far-right National Rally and a contender for the presidency set to hear appeal decision on Tuesday

Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right figurehead and a leading contender for its presidency, will learn on Tuesday whether she can run in next year’s election when a Paris appeals court rules on her attempt to overturn a ban on holding elected office.

The ruling will determine whether the far-right National Rally (RN) candidate to succeed the outgoing president, Emmanuel Macron, will be the veteran Le Pen, 57, or her youthful protege, Jordan Bardella, 30.

Meeting of 32 member states comes at crucial time for alliance after tensions with US over Iran and Greenland

Nato leaders will gather in Ankara on Tuesday after a turbulent six months, hoping – in the case of the other 31 members of the alliance – to mollify an unpredictable Donald Trump, as Washington continues to pressure its allies to increase defence spending.

On Monday, Mark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, called for the allies to present “clear, concrete and credible plans” to reach the organisation’s spending targets. “President Trump fully expects that all allies will step up immediately and get on the path to 5% and do it with urgency,” he said.

Pinterest давно стал одним из самых популярных сервисов для поиска фотографий, иллюстраций, дизайнов, мемов и видеороликов. Именно поэтому у предпринимателей, блогеров и экспертов регулярно возникает вопрос: можно ли скачать понравившееся изображение или видео и использовать его в своем Telegram-канале, социальных сетях, на сайте или в рекламе?

Однозначно ответить на этот вопрос нельзя. Само по себе размещение изображения или видеоролика в Pinterest не означает, что такой контент можно свободно использовать. Вместе с тем существуют ситуации, когда использование допустимо, а также случаи, когда риск нарушения авторских прав существенно возрастает.

Treasury select committee also says ministers have moral obligation to reverse last year’s repayment threshold freeze

Slideshows that compared student loan repayments with the cost of a mobile phone contract, and YouTube videos that did not mention the fact that loan terms could change amounted to mis-selling by the government, MPs have said.

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, caused a furore last year when she announced that the repayment threshold on plan 2 student loans would be frozen at £29,385 for three years from April 2027.

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

Two tests that can dramatically speed up diagnosis of endometriosis are to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales, in a move hailed as a “gamechanger” for millions of women.

One in 10 women of reproductive age are affected by the condition, where tissue similar to that found in the womb lining grows elsewhere, such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes. Symptoms include painful periods, painful bowel movements, pain when urinating and pain during or after sex.

Thousands of women are killed in dowry disputes each year, despite the practice being banned in 1961

Dowry deaths in India no longer provoke the public anger they once did, despite thousands of women’s lives still being lost every year, according to new research.

The killings – women who are murdered or driven to suicide following dowry disputes between families – have also faded from political debate, despite an increase in cases.

Leader of France’s far-right National Rally and a contender for the presidency set to hear appeal decision on Tuesday

Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right figurehead and a leading contender for its presidency, will learn on Tuesday whether she can run in next year’s election when a Paris appeals court rules on her attempt to overturn a ban on holding elected office.

The ruling will determine whether the far-right National Rally (RN) candidate to succeed the outgoing president, Emmanuel Macron, will be the veteran Le Pen, 57, or her youthful protege, Jordan Bardella, 30.

Wars in Iran and Ukraine have expended stockpiles of sought-after missiles, leaving gap in military resources

There are growing concerns in Europe that the US defence industrial base is no longer providing the weapons pledged to Nato allies with US stockpiles depleted owing to the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, leaving allies to consider new avenues to arm and defend themselves.

As Nato leaders including the US president, Donald Trump, convene in Ankara, Turkey, the US plans to address European defence spending and concerns over the Trump administration’s future commitment to the military alliance.