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NullCascade··on Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU
the anti-immigration right in Denmark was successful because they were data-driven and could show that unskilled non-Western immigration was a net negative even by 3rd generation.

the American and German far-right by contrast seem to be the polar opposite of data-driven. No the lazy 'IQ by country' maps don't count.

NullCascade··on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
Have you considered making a version that is packaged as a desktop app?
NullCascade··on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs
What is the ROI?

During the summer of 2017 Denmark flew hourly surveillance helicopters and military SIGINT aircrafts over Copenhagen to stop Sweden-like gang shootings. It was expensive but worked.

NullCascade··on CUDA Ontology
What is the cheapest CUDA-enabled VM providers one can use to learn CUDA?
NullCascade··on Gemini 3
I'm not a mathematician but I think we underestimate how useful pure mathematics can be to tell whether we are approaching AGI.

Can the mathematicians here try ask it to invent new novel math related to [Insert your field of specialization] and see if it comes up with something new and useful?

Try lowering the temperature, use SymPy etc.

NullCascade··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
As a happy OpenRouter user I know the vast majority of the industry directly use vendor APIs and that the OpenRouter rankings are useless for those models.
NullCascade··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Denmark's health system is pretty good except adult mental health. SOTA LLMs are definitely approaching a stage where they could help.
NullCascade··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
"Free buses" is not really a thing even in the most left leaning European countries. Most experts recommend very cheap subsidized public transportation but not free.
NullCascade··on Tactility: An ESP32 OS
The Toit language and runtime is also ESP32-focused:

https://github.com/toitlang/toit

NullCascade··on Low Earth Orbit Visualization
It's just because a very significant amount of UK satellites are OneWeb Internet satellites.
NullCascade··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
Elon Musk's takeover of X is already a good example of what happens with unlimited free speech and unlimited reach.

Neo-nazis and white nationalists went from their 3-4 replies per thread forums, 4chan posts, and Telegram channels, to now regularly reaching millions of people and getting tens of thousands of likes.

As a Danish person I remember how American media in the 2010s and early 2020s used to shame Denmark for being very right-wing on immigration. The average US immigration politics thread on X is worse than anything I have ever seen in Danish political discussions.

NullCascade··on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
It is actually illegal for EU companies and organizations to boycott Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_statute

The EU has since the 1990s gone out of its way to support countries like Iran and Cuba against US/Israeli economic sanctions.

NullCascade··on Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
One Swedish-Kurdish man in Iran who is working for the Iranian government is using Telegram/Signal and Monero to intentionally cause carnage in the streets of Sweden and has been attempting to expand to Denmark.

But instead of going directly after this man our tech inept governments are trying to do the mathematically impossible.

NullCascade··on Serverless Horrors
Troy Hunt and HIBP is a good example in the other direction but Hunt has also been burned plenty of times by serverless.

https://www.troyhunt.com/closer-to-the-edge-hyperscaling-hav...

NullCascade··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
What is currently the best model (or multi-model process) to go from text-to-3D-asset?

Ideally based on FOSS models.

NullCascade··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
Maybe private Chinese AI labs consider EU/UK regulators a bigger threat than US anti-China hawks.
NullCascade··on Bear is now source-available
>Use the AGPL for server code, the GPL for tools and the LGPL for libraries.

If we are doing it for ideological reasons why not go all in and use AGPLv3 for everything, including libraries? It also has the added benefit that big corporations will not use your code.

NullCascade··on FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
What is the actual process of identifying hotspots caused suboptimal compiler generated assembly?

Would it ever make sense to write handwritten compiler intermediate representation like LLVM IR instead of architecture-specific assembly?

NullCascade··on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers
Considering most SOTA LLMs are also multimodal/vision models, could they get better results if the LLM gets visual feedback with it?
NullCascade··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
It's funny. Nobody complains that there is a lack of free multi-platform desktop GUI profiling tools for Go, Python, Ruby, Elixir etc. Somehow we just accept those languages are only for web services, web apps, and command-line utilities.

What is the problem with Microsoft keeping "nice to have" desktop GUI stuff for their own proprietary ecosystem when everything else has open sourced? Including the primitives needed for the community to build their own GUI and developer tooling stuff, just like JetBrains did with Rider.

NullCascade··on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
OpenAI is much more aggressively targeted by NYTimes and similar organizations for "copyright violations".
NullCascade··on Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants
How is that going to help?

Germany has an even lower threshold for criticism of Israel and organized Judaism than the US.

Mainland Europe (excluding Germany) is generally way more pro-Palestinian than the US. However that doesn't extend to our institutions. Case in point: Dutch riot police brutally beating up University of Amsterdam students for setting up UCLA/Columbia-style tent blockades.

If you're an American academic or student you can come to Europe and continue both your work and pro-Palestinian activism within the Overton window of mainstream European consensus on the two-state solution. Anything that is more radical than that might get you in the same level of trouble or worse than the US.

Basically Europe is a non-solution for pro-Palestinian American academics and students.

NullCascade··on Study mode
OpenAI, please stop translating your articles into the most sterile and dry Danish I have ever read. English is fine.
NullCascade··on Ruby on Rails: The Open-Source Blueprint
Some companies have strict "call the legal department before using GPL/AGPL software" policies.
NullCascade··on Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
How would you do the opposite of this? Optimize your content to be more likely crawled by AI bots? I know traditional Google-focused SEO is not enough because these AI bots often use other web search/indexing APIs.