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Deputy Labour leader says No 10 must become more meritocratic as party’s female MPs press Burnham on gender balance

Andy Burnham will change a “boys club” culture of factional briefings at No 10 which silenced critics, according to the deputy leader of the Labour party.

Lucy Powell said she had experienced “unpleasant” briefings in Downing Street, which left people afraid to speak out or challenge Downing Street’s position.

Voters disillusioned with Starmer’s Labour were tempted by the Greens – but Polanski’s party fears the affable, left-leaning Burnham could win them back

The shift was notable. A week after Keir Starmer said he would resign, YouGov polling showed Labour up two points and the Greens down by the same amount. Might an Andy Burnham premiership mean a rethink for Zack Polanski’s party?

The short answer is it is too early to know, particularly in an era of unprecedented political volatility and the seesawing poll numbers that come with it. This year alone, a five-point Labour lead over the Greens has become a similar margin in favour of the Greens, and then a seven-point advantage for Labour.

National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as high temperatures have paralyzed the east coast

Organizers of Saturday’s Independence Day parade in Washington DC abruptly canceled the event late on the eve of the event, with sweltering temperatures in the nation’s capital and on the east coast wreaking havoc on celebrations of America’s semiquincentennial.

The event, hosted by the National Park Service (NPS), was scheduled to begin at 10.30am on Saturday. But organizers said they canceled the procession due to an extreme heart warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS).

National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as high temperatures have paralyzed the east coast

Organizers of Saturday’s Independence Day parade in Washington DC abruptly canceled the event late on the eve of the event, with sweltering temperatures in the nation’s capital and on the east coast wreaking havoc on celebrations of America’s semiquincentennial.

The event, hosted by the National Park Service (NPS), was scheduled to begin at 10.30am on Saturday. But organizers said they canceled the procession due to an extreme heart warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS).

Рутина съедает свободное время? Узнайте, как внедрить ИИ для учителей в образовательный процесс. Разбираем лучшие нейросети для проверки работ, генерации тестов и создания поурочных планов.

Статья "LLM free" - все изображения и текст органического происхождения. :)

В январе выкладывал пост, в котором рассказывал о ходе эксперимента с 2 флешками - насколько долго они могут сохранить данные в обычных домашних условиях. На сегодня прошло уже 2 года с момента, когда флешки были заполнены данными и отложены в темное сухое место.

Этот эксперимент не претендует на какую-либо научность и практическую значимость. Всё делается просто ради прикола. Just for fun.

Rotterdam is home to 25,000 Cape Verdeans and 1,600 of them gathered in a beer garden to watch an unforgettable game against Argentina

Rotterdam knows how to script a football fairytale. Six players from the Cape Verde side who have lit up the World Cup were born here, nearly 5,000km from their parents’ islands. Five of them played against Argentina, the defending champions, in a bittersweet 3-2 defeat.

After last Saturday’sdraw with Saudi Arabia took Cape Verde into the last 32, the streets of Rotterdam were full of honking cars, flags streaming from the windows and people dancing. This is the city the locals call the 10th island of Cape Verde. The diasporas from Curaçao and Morocco have also set their own corners of Rotterdam alight during this tournament.

The oil giant’s sponsorship deal with Fifa has featured prominently at matches in Houston. But 100 miles away in another Texas city, residents say the firm’s refinery is exposing them to poisonous gases and long-term health problems

The street is wide, its grass verges thick and scruffy after a week of rainstorms. Jamal Johnson will walk home straight down the middle carrying his plastic shopping bag, a jot of motion through the stillness. He lives in one of the modest wood-panelled houses spaced out on each side, most lovingly kept and passed through at least two generations. There is nobody else in sight, but a freight train breaks the silence, grinding left to right along the line flanking the north-facing gardens. The west side of Port Arthur, Texas, could be any lower-income neighbourhood in the southern states if it were not for the looming menace on the other side of the track.

This is a sad, unsettling place. “I’ve got a load of friends and family who’ve had weird diseases,” says Johnson, his face contorting at the thought. He lists a grandfather and aunt who died of cancer, the latter at a young age after relocating here to care for other relatives. An uncle died with complications from ALS (motor neurone disease). “You know what I’m saying? Man, they’ve let off all these poisonous gases; it’s like that all the time. It’s fucked up.”

Привет, Хабр! На связи снова МТС, и сегодня мы хотим поговорить о батарейке — но не простой, а о-о-очень большой. Вы никогда не задумывались, как здорово было бы иметь гигантский аккумулятор, куда можно сохранять энергию, которую электростанции вырабатывают, но не используют? Сейчас они вынуждены рассеивать мегаватты в атмосферу. Отдельная история — возобновляемые природные источники: ветер дует не по расписанию, солнце светит не круглосуточно. Ветрогенераторы и солнечные панели дают энергию, когда природа позволит, а не когда надо потребителям.

В общем, проблема хранения избыточной электроэнергии реальна. И в Швейцарии к ней подошли радикально: строят подземное хранилище размером с два футбольных поля. Это будет самая мощная в мире батарея — способная выдавать 1,2 ГВт с откликом в миллисекунды и хранить до 2,1 ГВт·ч. Стоимость проекта — несколько миллиардов долларов.

Привет, Хабр! Сборка хорошей электрогитары из разрозненных компонентов от разных производителей, особенно если это дешёвые безымянные комплектующие из Поднебесной, требует некоторых знаний, которыми я с вами сейчас поделюсь.

А что касается некрасивого белёсого пятна на деке, то оно вызвано деятельностью насекомых при жизни дерева, практически неустранимо, и будет закрыто декупажем. Не все деревяшки годятся для прозрачной отделки, и к этому тоже надо быть готовыми.

Разберем, чем же отличаются Научная Гипотеза, Научная Теория и Научный Закон и рассмотрим некоторые распространенные заблуждения относительно этих понятий.

England chase down 191 to beat India at Old Trafford
WT20 World Cup final preview | Mail Tim

Sooryavanshi faces his first ball in international cricket… and misses! He flashed outside off at Josh Tongue, whose lift was too much for him.

1st over: India 4-0 (Sharma 4, Sooryavanshi 0) Never mind the prodigy, Abhishek can play a bit too. Archer starts well, beating him with a lifter, but the next ball is swished over slip for four, with one hand off the bat. Archer beats him again, and again, before finishing with a rap on the glove. The wind assisted both the bowler’s movement, away from the left-hander, and the lone scoring shot.

• Australia 31-33 Ireland in rugby international in Sydney

• Ireland hang on as Ben Donaldson misses last-gasp kick

After the Socceroos’ deflating loss to Egypt earlier in the day, Australian sport needed a shot in the arm. And the underdog Wallabies, who had lost seven of their past eight Tests, almost delivered it in style at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, going within a few centimetres of upsetting the world’s third-ranked side. Instead, despite scoring five tries with exhilarating attack, the Wallabies fell to a cruel 33-31 defeat to Ireland right at the death.

Ireland had not played a Test since March and Australia November, but both teams shucked off the rust quickly, trading a flurry of tries in the opening quarter. Australia drew first blood, snaffling a loose lineout and hammering the Ireland line before Carter Gordon speared a long ball to Jock Campbell who caught it on his boot laces and passed to flying Wiradjuri winger Dylan Pietsch who dived into the corner.

Каждый, кто хочет выжить и не сойти с ума в этом безумном, изменчивом и непредсказуемом мире, стремится найти надёжную опору – что-то абсолютное, неизменное, лежащее в основе всего сущего и гарантирующее его стабильность. В наши дни уже мало кто верит в персонифицированного, антропоморфного Бога Ветхого Завета, который топит своих детей, как котят, ревнует избранный им народ к другим богам и приказывает ему истреблять другие народы. Теперь чаще встречается вера в Высший разум, Первопричину, космическую субстанцию, ну и конечно же в абстрактный Абсолют – бесконечно-вечное, совершенное, замечательное всеединство существа. Теологи отождествляют Абсолют с Богом, эзотерики – с неким информационным полем, Вселенской энергией или Душой мира, философы – с Мировым Разумом или сознательной Вселенной. Современные мистики осознаются фрактально-голографической частью Целого, созерцают Абсолют в каждой козявке и достигают Нирваны, не дожидаясь слияния капли с Океаном, а преисполняясь настолько, что сам Океан целиком вливается в каплю. Но всё это не более, чем игры разума красивыми словами или психоделический опыт, полученный в изменённом состоянии сознания.

В этой и следующей статье я приведу вас к такому Абсолюту, на фоне которого все вышеупомянутые откровения покажутся детским лепетом. Не слушайте тех, кто говорит, что Абсолют абсолютно недоступен разуму, недостижим в своём величии, непостижим в своей мудрости, непознаваем в своей силе и необъясним в своём блаженстве. Мой тезис прямо противоположен: Абсолют достижим, и достижим только рациональным способом. Чтобы это аргументировать, нам придётся разобраться, что является причиной всех причин, есть ли у Вселенной достаточное основание быть, могут ли законы физики измениться в любой момент, не является ли вера в их постоянство религиозной верой, ну и конечно же ответить на главный вопрос метафизики: почему существует нечто, а не ничто?

Boy who was allegedly thrown into the area at a Cambridgeshire zoo has undergone five surgeries

A three-year-old boy left seriously injured after being allegedly thrown into a crocodile enclosure has undergone five surgeries and faces a long “rehabilitation journey”.

His family, who provided the update, also thanked donors who had raised more than £25,000. His parents said they had been “living at the hospital” since the incident at Johnsons of Old Hurst farm and zoo, in Cambridgeshire, on 18 June.

Egypt and Morocco are in the last 16 after shootouts, but the continent’s pyramid appears to be getting broader rather than much higher

For Africa, this World Cup feels like one of those classic memes from the early days of social media. Is it a gold and white dress or a black and blue dress? Is it a duck or a rabbit? Has this been a good World Cup for Africa or one that underlines the problems of football on the continent? It probably depends where you’re standing.

For years, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) had been arguing that five places were not enough for its 54 members: 9% of African sides were represented at a World Cup, while 50% of South America’s members were. The response to that was South American countries had won the World Cup 10 times, whereas Africa had not had a semi-finalist until Morocco reached the last four in Qatar in 2022.

Boy who was allegedly thrown into the area at a Cambridgeshire zoo has undergone five surgeries

A three-year-old boy left seriously injured after being allegedly thrown into a crocodile enclosure has undergone five surgeries and faces a long “rehabilitation journey”.

His family, who provided the update, also thanked donors who had raised more than £25,000. His parents said they had been “living at the hospital” since the incident at Johnsons of Old Hurst farm and zoo, in Cambridgeshire, on 18 June.

America is a uniquely sick, unhealthy country — just ask Americans. We’re addicted to ultraprocessed food and succumb to deaths of despair. The current US health secretary, who insists we’ve been raising the “sickest generation” ever, has built an entire political movement around the idea that there is something uniquely unwell about America as a country. 

So it might surprise you to learn that the US actually just set a new record low in its death rate, the average American’s odds of dying in a given year. According to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) this week, the US registered 689.2 deaths per 100,000 people in 2025. That is the lowest level on record. Not the lowest level since the Covid pandemic. The lowest level since the US started keeping organized data more than 125 years ago, and given the obvious public health advances in the 20th century, it is almost certainly America’s lowest death rate through the entire 250 years of its existence.

The new age-adjusted rate is down 4.6 percent from the year before, and about 4 percent below where it was in 2019 before the pandemic. Translate that dropping death rate into years of life gained, and it’s likely US life expectancy will come in at another record high in 2025, after reaching 79 years for the first time in 2024. 

In fairness, it’s reasonable to be surprised. The US may not be the toxic hellhole some MAHA adherents think, but for most of the past decade plus, the country experienced something that’s not supposed to happen to a rich nation: life expectancy stalled and dropped, going from 78.9 years in 2014 all the way down to 76.4 percent in 2021. Covid was obviously the major factor, killing more than a million Americans, but even before the pandemic, death rates were rising thanks to drug overdoses, gun homicides, alcohol, and metabolic disease.  

But the latest data shows the US has resumed its long-term trend of ever-falling death rates and rising life expectancy. This is how we got back on track.

The drugs that killed

The single biggest factor is the dramatic decline in drug overdoses that have killed tens of thousands of young Americans over the past few decades.

In 2013, just 3,105 Americans died from an overdose of synthetic opioids — which basically meant fentanyl. In the decade that followed, deaths from synthetic opioids went up 23-fold to 72,776 in 2023, the major factor in an overdose spike that hit 114,000 in the 12 months ending in late 2023. The problem seemed unsolvable.

And yet, by 2025, overdose deaths had fallen to roughly 70,000, a drop of nearly 40 percent in two years. It is one of the fastest declines for any major cause of death on record. We don’t really know why. Researchers credit some mix of wider naloxone distribution, a shift in the illicit fentanyl supply, and some grim but simple math:  the population of drug users has already lost many of its most vulnerable members.

All this matters for the top line number because overdoses move life expectancy more than almost anything else, precisely because of who they kill. A death at 29 subtracts far more years from the national average than a death at 89. “As we see a dramatic decline in drug overdose among younger adults, that will have a more measurable impact on the overall life expectancy of the population,” Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau told CNN. The numbers bear him out: the overall death rate for Americans ages 25 to 34 fell about 16 percent in 2024 alone, and kept falling in 2025.

As overdoses dropped, so did homicides, another direct threat to the young. The national murder rate fell about 13 percent in 2023 and roughly 15 percent in 2024 — at the time, the largest one-year drop on record. It’s now on track to fall another 20-plus percent in 2025, which would set a new record for the largest single-year decline ever. Covid deaths have also fallen off, declining 37 percent in 2024, when the virus dropped from the 10th leading cause of death to the 15th. 

While the deaths from Covid were the negative image of overdose deaths — primarily the old rather than the young — they were part of a broad decline in deaths from all sorts of causes. In 2024, age-adjusted death rates fell for all ten of the leading causes of death, heart disease and cancer included. That’s the most encouraging sign here: all around, America is becoming a less deadly place to live.

The longest winning streak

If you really want to see an unhealthy country, go back to shortly after the 100th anniversary of the United States’ founding, when American life expectancy was less than 40 years. An American born now can expect roughly four additional decades of life compared with one born around the time of the centennial — a sustained gain in the length of human life that is essentially unprecedented in the history of the species.

And while doctors deserve some credit, most of the improvement came from the less glamorous work of plumbers, sanitary engineers, and vaccine makers. The CDC credited the control of infectious disease alone with much of a 29-year jump in life expectancy over the 20th century, the product of clean water, sewage systems, food safety, childhood immunization, and antibiotics. In 1900, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrheal disease caused a third of all deaths, 40 percent of them in children under 5. As late as a century ago, in 1926, the US had a life expectancy slightly below that of contemporary Somalia. But by the end of the 20th century, those ancient diseases were a rounding error in the US. 

The killers that remain today are primarily the slow diseases of old age — but there, too, progress is continuing. Cancer death rates are down 34 percent since 1991, which means an estimated 4.8 million deaths were averted — roughly the population of Louisiana — thanks to less smoking, earlier detection, and better drugs. Deaths from heart attacks, once a near-certain death sentence, have fallen for decades. 

Now, a class of drugs that barely existed a decade ago is rewriting what’s possible. GLP-1s like Ozempic have already pushed adult obesity down from a record 39.9 percent in 2022 to 37 percent in 2025, the first sustained decline in a generation. That matters for life expectancy because obesity feeds four of the ten leading causes of death: heart disease, several cancers, diabetes, and kidney disease. And the benefit may extend beyond weight loss: in a 17,000-person trial, semaglutide cut the risk of heart attack, stroke, and cardiovascular death by 20 percent. 

No one knows what happens when tens of millions take such a drug for decades rather than thousands for a few years. But if even a fraction of that effect holds at scale, the GLP-1 era could extend Americans’ lives the way statins and the war on smoking once did.

Behind the record

To keep things in perspective, US life expectancy is a bit like US men’s soccer — pretty good and better than it used to be, but still not top class. 

At 79 years, American life expectancy trails the average of comparable wealthy nations — Japan, Switzerland, Australia, France — by 3.7 years. For all the recent progress in fatal overdoses and homicides, that gap is still primarily driven by Americans dying young: the US death rate under age 70 is nearly double the average in our peer countries. To top it all off, we spend far more on health care than any of them, and still get shorter lives in return.

That national average also hides staggering gaps within the US. Life expectancy in Hawaii runs about eight years longer than in West Virginia; being born in the wrong state can cost more years than a lifetime of smoking. The richest 1 percent of American men live about 15 years longer than the poorest 1 percent. The gap between Americans with a college degree and those without has widened to 8.5 years, up from about 2.5 in the early 1990s. (Though as my former colleague Dylan Matthews once wrote, the expansion of college means that non-grads tend to be poorer and less healthy than they were 30-plus years ago, intensifying the difference.) 

While the nation as a whole has recovered, the primary forces behind the lost decade of life — guns, alcohol, metabolic disease — “have not been resolved, and they’re continuing to claim lives,” as Steven Woolf, a mortality researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University, told CNN

But countries like Japan and Switzerland aren’t inherently healthier than the US — instead, they’re proof that several more years of American life are sitting on the table, reachable with tools that already exist. Though the nascent (and very American) field of longevity medicine might be overhyped, there is real promise in new approaches that could extend not just the sheer number of years we live, but what really matters — the years we spend in good health. 

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, in which you’ll find the iconic phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” (along with a long list of more petty grievances). When it comes to pursuing happiness, well, let’s just say we haven’t quite caught it yet, and liberty hasn’t been looking all that great lately. 

But when it comes to the promise of life, at least, America is once again a success story.

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Эта статья прежде всего будет полезна студентам и начинающим специалистам.

В отрасли разработки программного обеспечения под системным дизайном (System Design) понимают процесс проектирования архитектуры, компонентов, баз данных и связей информационной системы. Цель системного дизайна - обеспечить масштабируемость, отказоустойчивость и высокую производительность системы, в том числе при росте нагрузки. В этой статье я затрону базовые задачи системного дизайна - как спроектировать и разработать систему так, чтобы она обладала архитектурой, чтобы развитие и поддержка системы не приносила много страданий, чтобы доработки не ломали действующий функционал.

• Mercedes driver passes Ferrari rival on lap eight of 17

• Norris takes third, edging out Russell and Verstappen

Lewis Hamilton gave his all to the roars of the home crowd at Silverstone but the valiant and determined British driver could not defy the laws of physics as the superior pace of Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes secured victory for the Italian teenager in the British Grand Prix sprint race.

Hamilton had not expected to be even in the chase this weekend given Ferrari’s power deficit to Mercedes but their performance has surpassed expectations and Hamilton was back at the sharp end at his home race. He had claimed pole for the sprint and then held his lead for half of the 17-lap dash before Antonelli broke home fans’ hearts when he powered past for the lead on Hangar Straight.

Thousands of police deployed to Erfurt in central Germany as party holds conference on key Nazi date

Riot police have clashed with opponents of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on the streets of Erfurt in Germany, where thousands met to block roads and prevent AfD delegates from attending the party’s biennial national conference to elect its leadership.

Police reported 20,000 protesters were demonstrating in the eastern city, where Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla are expected to be re-elected as the party’s co-leaders in the run-up to crucial regional elections in which AfD could win power at state-level for the first time.

Thousands of police deployed to Erfurt in central Germany as party holds conference on key Nazi date

Riot police have clashed with opponents of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on the streets of Erfurt in Germany, where thousands met to block roads and prevent AfD delegates from attending the party’s biennial national conference to elect its leadership.

Police reported 20,000 protesters were demonstrating in the eastern city, where Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla are expected to be re-elected as the party’s co-leaders in the run-up to crucial regional elections in which AfD could win power at state-level for the first time.

«Ты представляешь, сколько жизней мы должны прожить, прежде чем у нас появится смутная догадка, что жизнь не исчерпывается едой, борьбой и властью в Стае?»  (с) Ричард Бах: «Чайка по имени Джонатан Ливингстон» 

В прошлой части мы описали эволюционный гормональный механизм, побуждающий человека прилагать усилия к социальной реализации по одной их двух биопрограмм:

дофаминовой – путь создания нового и ценного для других для получения дофамина через механизм социального одобрения

серотониновой – путь укрепления личного статуса и власти для получения серотонина через механизм социального доминирования

В рамках основного паттерна эволюции ЭПЭР он образовывает Биопрограмму №2 - биопрограмму развития популяции, создавая напряжение и конфликт внутри самой популяции, в горниле которого дофаминщики постоянно соревнуются с серотонинщиками, обеспечивая механизм эволюционного отбора в области идей и идеологий.

И всё же этот двухконтурный двигатель пока не объясняет самую странную и, на первый взгляд, невыгодную для индивида вещь: самопожертвование. Почему человек отказывается не только от комфорта и семьи, но и от статуса, денег, славы — то есть от “пряников” второй биопрограммы — и при этом достигает субъективного счастья и внутренней устойчивости? Если мозг — машина дофамина и серотонина, что заставляет добровольно отказываться от этих наркотиков ради Истины, Смысла или Духа? Ответ кроется в биопрограмме третьего уровня.

Всем привет! Если вы хоть раз искали работу в IT за последний год, то знаете, что рынок беспощаден к новичкам. Нужно откликнуться на сотни вакансий, а в итоге получаешь отказы от роботов. Чтобы пробиться через фильтры HR, нужно под каждую вакансию писать уникальное сопроводительное письмо.

В этой статье я сделаю полный разбор того, как я написал собственного автономного ИИ-агента, который ищет вакансии, фильтрует мусор с помощью локальной нейросети, пишет персонализированные сопроводительные письма и отчитывается мне в Telegram, пока я спокойно занимаюсь своими делами.

Я хотел, чтобы скрипт был бесплатным, автономным и не требовал танцев с бубном вокруг платных API.