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Heat Wave to Hit Two-Thirds of the U.S. Here’s What to Expect
- jaytaylor 7y agoNow NYT disables reading from incognito. Lame. http://archive.is/cF01U http://archive.is/cF01U
- techntoke 7y agoThey've been lame every since implementing article limits. It's the freaking news. Who wants to pay to read the news, especially when the articles are shared all over the web?
- realbarack 7y agoI pay to read the news because I prefer to get information from high-quality organizations that I trust to hire skilled, relatively objective journalists who will work hard to accurately report a story. So much of unpaid journalism is bloggers re-hashing the work of these big(ger)-budget news agencies, often with less clarity and more partisan slant. Not to say NYT, WaPo, WSJ and other high-quality paid sources are perfect but they are far better than the free competition.
- staticautomatic 7y agoThe NY Times doesn't exactly have a consistent record of skilled, relatively objective reporting.
- realbarack 7y agoAre there specific instances you have in mind? I actually think they do pretty good job on the whole.
- staticautomatic 7y agoSure. Two of the most egregious examples are the early coverage of the Vietnam war and basically all of the coverage of the U.S. meddling in Latin American politics. There's also its long track record of uncritical coverage of the so-called "war on terror", especially during Obama's tenure. When not busy toeing the military-industrial line, the Times is happy to report that there's still a genuine debate about whether climate change is real [1] and that people who have flatly been accused of rape are simply having "#metoo problems." [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+"debate+over+climate+change" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+"debate+o...
- anigbrowl 7y agoAll true but most people don't want all their news from one outlet any more.
- realbarack 7y agoYeah. It sucks that there's not a great solution here (at least not one that I know of; I haven't looked to closely at the various buffet-style options). Currently I pay for three subscriptions: one local (Long Beach Press-Telegram) one regional (LA Times) and one national (NY Times).
- danso 7y agoBecause it costs money to pay the professionals who report and write the articles?
- joemaller1 7y agoLogging in sort of defeats the point of private mode.
- gamblor956 7y agoWaPo has been doing that for a few months. LATimes started doing that this week as well. Use Firefox's reader mode. You might need to refresh once or twice to get the full NYT article in reader mode.
- 18pfsmt 7y agoThis is an off-topic comment that is distracting from the topic-at-hand. For a "hacker," one just disables scripts from running from that domain.
- justAnotherNET 7y agoMods please remove this comment as off topic
- sweetcherrypie 7y agoTurn off JS and open in either private/regular window: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/disable-javascript/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/disable-javas...
- mschuster91 7y agoHow do these work anyway? Guess they're running some feature checks as the (probably aged to hell) webview in the HN or reddit app I use always hits that wall.
- kevincrane 7y agoAnecdotally, I've also found this link helpful if you find yourself hitting NYT paywalls in the future: https://www.nytimes.com/subscription https://www.nytimes.com/subscription
- eat-my-shit 7y agoThe New York Times can eat my shit.
- hpoe 7y agoSo I get that the infrastructure isn't as well in place to deal with things like this but where I live 100+ isn't that absurd, and that's nothing to say for places like Arizonia which is two blocks away from the sun and 90 is considered cool, with 100+ being a common occurrence. So what makes this particularly bad?
- Retric 7y agoHeat index is by far more useful than temperature when discussing this. At 90f at 90% humidity is more dangerous and feels hotter than 102 at 50% humidity. 100f at 65% humidity feels like 136f and higher humidity quickly turns deadly. Or as the article puts it, extreme heat killed 108 people last year.
- jointpdf 7y agoYep, and the effects are nonlinear. i.e. increasing marginal danger from every +1F or +5%. Here’s a helpful chart: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bncore/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/heatindexchart-650.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/bncore/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/h...
- bradknowles 7y agoThat's nothing. A few years ago, in France, over 50,000 people died due to heat stroke and other extreme heat factors. In the US, many places have this thing called "air conditioning". In France, and much of continental Europe, that's pretty rare. Heck, in many of the poorer places over there, they don't even have fans.
- slenk 7y agoIt's more like 50k throughout Europe, but that is still awful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
- rubidium 7y ago“infrastructure isn't as well in place to deal with things like this“ and people don’t know how to either. It’s similar to blizzards in Georgia. Minnesota is fine with 6” snow. In Georgia it’s lots more risk because of the lack of experience. It’s bad because people (usually already frail) get heatstroke/overheated and die.
- tomohawk 7y agoWe see a lot more weather hype in the news than we used to. Winter storms have names. We get "arctic vortexes". And normal summer temps are flogged as a massive heat wave. Someone in the biz was telling me that the reason is that many 'news' orgs would rather have an article about the weather than about a lot of other subjects, so they've steadily increased the number of weather related coverage.
- frankbreetz 7y agoAlso extreme weather events are increasing in both quantity and severity. https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/extreme-weather https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/...
- maxander 7y agoIt serves a purpose, though, since weather is more relevant to day-to-day experience than most news stories. E.g., Boston is going to hit just about 100F this Saturday; that’s enough to potentially hurt someone not expecting it, and there’s probably people who wouldn’t hear about a heatwave if it wasn’t in something like the NYT.
- atoav 7y agoWell that and the increase of frequency of once-in-a-century weather extremes. And it will get more. It takes the same amount of energy to melt 1L of ice as it takes to heat 1L of water up to 80 degree celsius. This means currently we have massive amounts of energy beeing absorbed by the melting ice. After that, we will see. Breakdown of the Jetstream? Gulf stream? who knows.
- untog 7y ago...also, climate change is leading to an increase in extreme weather events. Feels a little unfair to blame the media for clickbait hype when this is a heatwave. I'd always heard that news organisations love weather stories because they're cheap to produce and readers want to read them and find them useful. There's a reason the morning news has a weather update every fifteen minutes, after all.
- beezle 7y agoSlow news day? Not like this is the first heat wave to ever hit more than a couple states. Drink lots of water, move slow, go to work early and leave late (its cooler and less people to get edgy with!)
- beezle 7y agoNo clue why the angry downvotes - from the subheadline of the story: "Dangerously hot temperatures are predicted from Oklahoma to New England. Here’s the forecast, with some tips on staying safe." I add to their list of things that can help, get downvoted, but people complaining about blocked incognito mode, all ok?