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In Germany's east, old ties to Moscow fuel AfD rise(ft.com)
6 points by alephnerd 2h ago|0 comments
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Internet shutdown crosses 100 days in Pakistan-administered Kashmir(aljazeera.com)
7 points by alephnerd 16h ago|0 comments
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China tightens travel restrictions for citizens(bbc.com)
3 points by alephnerd 1d ago|0 comments
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Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter(reuters.com)
54 points by alephnerd 2d ago|95 comments
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by alephnerd 3d ago
Primarily researchers directly and actively associated with the Ash Center who are researching institutional reform and stability [0] or those associated with the Carnegie Democracy, Conflict, and Governance program [1]. [0] - https:/
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by alephnerd 3d ago
Barbara Walter's model (which is what Armitage is leveraging) is deeply flawed and not the norm in most studies into autocracies and state instability. And to add on to that, Armitage himself has been a provocateur for "soft seces
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Iran's Internet Blackout Is Almost Impossible to Escape(bloomberg.com)
14 points by alephnerd 4d ago|3 comments
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by alephnerd 5d ago
> Why redacted still Because a number of the people associated with this are still alive on all sides. 1998-2001 was only 25-28 years ago, so a lot of sources are still alive or active sources as we speak, and in a number of cases now de
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by alephnerd 5d ago
Pakistan and Iran fought a skirmish in December 2024 [0] that was quickly deescalated, but Pakistan is increasingly misaligned with the IRGC as it's working closer with Iran's political leadership [1]. I don't expect a war to
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by alephnerd 5d ago
1. Waivers, state owned enterprises, shell corporations, barter trades, and using their own currencies for transactions 2. I agree. I'm just being prosaic as to why European states are in the pickle they are today. 3. They are closel
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by alephnerd 5d ago
The issue was 1990s-2000s Germany argued it was in Europe's best interest to integrate Russia into the European fabric, but 1990s-2000s France+UK+Italy argued it was in Europe's best interest to integrate the Mediterranean into th
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Hamas planned Berlin-Vienna attacks for Oct. 7 anniversary, GBA indictment shows(politico.eu)
4 points by alephnerd 5d ago|0 comments
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by alephnerd 5d ago
> Will this bring oil prices down in Europe ... This will not help Asia This hurts Europe more than Asia. The UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, and others are similarly opposed to the Houthis having conducted airstrikes on the Hou
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by alephnerd 6d ago
I am an AI booster and have visibility into a number of these models, and this is ridiculous. They underestimate AI's existing impact on some job markers and overestimate it's impact in such short a timeframe.
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by alephnerd 6d ago
CAPS LOCK DOES NOTHING TO HELP YOUR ARGUMENT. IT IS THE FORUM EQUIVALENT OF YELLING
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by alephnerd 7d ago
> It's on Paramount+ That's the issue. Paramount+ only has roughly 59 million subscribers in the US. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu/Disney+ remain the big 4 nationally [0]. Additionally, you don't see the sa
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by alephnerd 7d ago
Subsidizing unionized EV and Battery manufacturing jobs in deep red states [0], expanding tax credits and subsidizes for the bottom 50% of Americans [1], expanding Medicaid access [2], and other tangible pocketbook benefits showed that a po
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by alephnerd 7d ago
Much of the culture war crap that helped justify Tea Party and proto-alt right commentary started out from 2000s and early 2010s South Park. The "Bernie bro" to MAGA pipeline is very real, as was the "I wanna make sexist or r
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by alephnerd 9d ago
Most of these jobs are the same jobs that arose thanks to the CHIPS and IRA. Much of the AI boom and trade is building on top of the capex that arose from the semiconductor/hardware portfolio during that era. Many of the current DCs be
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by alephnerd 10d ago
Huh. Like Pomodoro. That makes sense.
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by alephnerd 10d ago
Appreciate the clarification!
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by alephnerd 10d ago
Disagreement does not mean dislike.
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by alephnerd 10d ago
This, and depending on the workflow and usecase, you don't necessarily need the latest and greatest with the right kind of harness engineering . Like everything in engineering, it's about tradeoffs and what works best for your s
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by alephnerd 10d ago
The recipe is also similar to Hamedh [0], a delicacy in Iraqi and Baghdadi Jewish households. The only major difference is the addition of tomatoes thanks to the Columbian Exchange, and rice - which would have not been cultivated or trade
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by alephnerd 10d ago
Most of my and my peers PortCos run their own eval and benchmark sets, simply because they know what they need best. The reality is, capabilities have largely converged across foundation models over the last 18 months, and much of the value
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by alephnerd 10d ago
This isn't Reddit.
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by alephnerd 10d ago
I know both you guys haven't been on HN for that long, but the downvote is not meant to be a dislike button. That is the antithesis of HN's norms around discourse:
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by alephnerd 10d ago
Appreciate it! Are you recording the lectures as well? Would also love some additions resources and recommendations from practitioners only .
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by alephnerd 12d ago
It's not as dramatic as the title makes it out to be. It's a steady transition to EV buses and Grab drivers within D1 (the current CBD and Japanese red light district) and the new CBD called Thu Thiem. The majority of Saigon is ex
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The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here(economist.com)
8 points by alephnerd 12d ago|1 comments

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