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Show HN: Nordic Game Jam 2023
Hi HN :-)

We are hosting our Nordic Game Jam 2023, 13-16 April, at Aalborg University, Copenhagen.

Nordic Game Jam has been running since 2006, it is an annual, 48 hours, game jam with a focus on bringing the games industry together, both veteran and hobbyist, in a playful, experimental and educational form.

We just had our first talk announcement: "Porting your Unity knowledge to Godot Engine", which fits perfectly if you are interested in the new developments of Godot Engine. We will be announcing many more activities throughout this month.

I have been part of the organiser team for 3 years now. It is completely volunteer driven. It was though to get through COVID as we highly appreciate the in-person culture. Incredibly grateful to be back again!

I am merely sharing because we tend to get a bit limited to the nordic countries (no wonder!), but we had quite a few participants from other countries who loved coming and getting a sneak peek into how the Nordic games industry looks.
It could well be, remember the state (police) have the monopoly on the evidence gathering process for criminal prosecutions. I sometimes think the fictional authoring skills of the Police is highly under estimated, certainly their criminal ingenuity and sexual depravity as undercover cops is all state sanctioned.
> There are also technical issues to consider. Clocks run faster on the moon than on Earth, gaining about 56 microseconds each day, the space agency said. Further complicating matters, ticking occurs differently on the lunar surface than in lunar orbit.

As a programmer, I can feel a migraine coming on just thinking about the bugs this is going to cause.
It's like the planet evolved an immune system against asteroids. It even brought autoimmune disease along, aka nuclear MAD.
Which makes the ChatGPT version basically useless. Not because of the racism, I would probably filter that myself if it became an issue but because half the things you ask it to do are, “I’m sorry as an LLM I’m not able to do <thing it can very obviously do>”.
Just rap vocals in this version. We are working on integrating our singing models for a future release.
You only have one brain – dumb trends
Correct. Which means if you’re taking deliveries it’s probably better to have a house number as you get validated more frequently.
6500K is what one should be calibrating for. A TV straight from the shop in some cases is more like 7500 or 8000K or even more (well into the blue range)

Most content is mastered for this 6500K as that is what the D65 standard is and the tv/film standards like Rec709 and Rec2020 use D65.
Using FFMPEG to record a short audio clip, then using the openai CLI this post shows how to transcribe your audio and send it to ChatGPT using a short script.
Agreed. That’s why the before/after is so critical - no one cares about the removal of a stray wisp of hair, but I think people would be interested in digital changes to the “structure” of the person.
Having been privy to a few "studies" like this, I'm imagining the following conversating in my head:

"Hey Brian, how long would you say it takes you deal with a CVE on average?"

'Gee, I don't know, I guess about 20-30 minutes but it can take upwards of an hour depending on the environment'

(Or at least the "answer 5 questions to win an Amazon gift card!" survey equivalent.)
In germany, in my smaller city, there's the usual bigger van handing out parcels but it is complemented by a fleet of smaller vehicles (e-bikes, those super small vans etc.) handing out letters and smaller packages. They probably sort it by size or something locally and distribute it onto the vehicles. The smaller vehicles visit me more often.
Exactly! And now messaging can work exactly like it!
More seriously, just today there has been some suggestion of lowering university debt repayments for people with children. Some Japanese people on twitter are displaying real anger complaining it's discriminatory towards people without children and backward for placing expectations on women to give birth.

What else can you do but divide society along political lines like it is in the US and let the side that wants to die out do as they wish. Why should the people who want to have a sustainable society so their kids aren't forced to flee a collapsing nation have to include those who are aggrieved by that?

To understand the situation you have to come here and see it for yourselves. Meet guys who never outgrew their high school friendship group and are still spending the same amount of time on video games at 30 as when they were 20, while complaining online that the government is to blame for their wages not going up. Listen to the young women blather on about their career aspirations but point-blank say they don't give a shit about other people and that they just want money for luxuries and status. Work next to the 60-year old guy who coasted along in life, never saw the need for kids and doesn't see any irony in being addicted to 18-year old prostitutes. These people beyond the influence of traditional government levers are not fringe groups!

I can only imagine how insane things are in Korea... probably get murdered for suggesting people spend more on family and less on Louis Vuitton.
Wait, so people in the US don't use Whatsapp but iMessage, and using iMessage on Android is possible but costs money?

I had not expected either of those, but I'd imagine if iMessage costs money on Android, that would massively increase the popularity of either Whatsapp or Signal.
Based off the kit SparkFun sells, I don't think it needs an amp: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/21287
(2019)

Priors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25523322 (18 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19528618 (54 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19207373 (0 comments)
Interesting large delivery companies do not use EirCode either. It was not primarily designed for deliveries but taxation. It's still annoys me to this day.

The Irish government had a problem administering Property tax and the TV Licence due to data sharing restrictions between departments. Unique Eircodes per property was the solution. This was explicitly stated by the Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte at the time of launch. The proposed Broadcasting Charge to replace TV licenses was not rolled out due to public opposition but EirCodes remain. Due to their random nature they are also less useful to emergency services.

Delivery companies have taken courtcases against the government over the EirCode rollout and there is an ongoing courtcase over allegations of corruption relating to the awarding of the EirCode contract[1].

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/11/28/firm-claims-c...
Reminds me that https://what3words.com/ exists, it's too bad a system like this couldn't be implemented globally. I'd love to write ///rich.soup.noble on an envelope and have it delivered
The really weird part to get your head around here is that in case of relativistic differences, it's actually time that's changing. So cesium still has the same frequency, the same number of events per second, but their second is not the same as ours.

When people talk about clocks running faster or slower, it muddies the topic a little because it makes it sound like a fault of the clock. The clock is accurately measuring the time it experiences.

My favourite trivia on this topic is that this is not hypothetical. If the clocks on GPS satellites kept earth time (eg, without accounting for relativistic drift), the entire GPS system would accumulate 10km of error per day. This is a genuine thing with measurable, real-world effects.
Every time one mentions whataboutism I think of hypocrisy.
Lossy reconstruction of training data is still memorisation.
I did a double-take when the bare-minimum feature of 'rich text' was locked behind a $15/month subscription.
Way easier than changing the rotation speed of mars.
Not to mention all the bureaucracy surrounding Jira, Agile and other items, I may end up on that train too.

Years ago, word of mouth directly from the user was good enough. Now, changes have to go through several levels of bureaucracy before it can even be looked at.
Yeah, I think this probably does what I think ought to happen here, but in the process it probably makes a bunch of reasonable looking C++ not work, and thus would make programmers unhappy which is not a good goal :/
At times, I still fall for buzzwords in the technology space.

Looks shiny and most of the very vocal devs are harping about it - maybe worth a try.

At the end of the day, in the absence of buzzwords and hype, I sit back and come to the conclusion that tried and tested technology will still be able to do the work 99.9999% of the time.

I hold the .00001% for those possibilities where you are doing something breakthrough that in itself merits to be associated as a buzzword.

Until then, always proceed with caution and rationalize whether it is only hype or it is something worth adding to your arsenal.
Just posting this as I think it may be useful to gain some perspective for this type of articles. An article from 2000 indicating soft landing: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB969020894934426807
I did not say or imply anything in that direction.
I have a machine running ubuntu studio. While it is easy to get up and going, the upgrades over the years have not been smooth. I'm thinking about going back to FreeBSD because long term it is easier to upgrade. pkg is an amazing system that beats dpkg or rpm (it took 10-15 years to get ahead though)
In current commercially available cores SVE and SVE2 are comparable to AVX but not AVX512 specifically, because every SVE design out there that isn't in a Fujitsu supercomputer is limited to 256 bits. There might also be differences on scatter/gather that are important in some places.
Alcoholic beverages were used for a long time as a more sanitary alternative to water not as an amusement.
Thank you! And yes that's a pretty good summary.
scrolling is wonky
I volunteer for a dog shelter and have to pick up and clean dog shit. For free. It brings me joy and belonging, not the picking up dog excrements, but the feeling that I can help someone or groups unconditionally, without expecting anything back.
Biden- Harris Administration Announces National Cybersecurity Strategy
Timers sound like they should be using a monotonic timer actually, so they are not affected by the system clock being adjusted.
1) We're talking about teenagers, many or most of whom don't even have cars.

2) There's only one city in the United States with a population of at least 5 million people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
This. I am not enough of an expert to evaluate the flaws, so my safe bet is - avoid flying in them.

I gain nothing by flying in those planes where I can find good alternative flights, so why risk it, even if the risk is very low?
Is it though? The documentation states:

> When Sync downloads a new version of a file, and finds that there are conflicts with the local version, the changes are merged with Google's diff-match-patch algorithm.

Based on the docs it doesn't sound like you can intervene in this process manually. Standard Notes creates a conflicted copy of the note instead, and that's what I'd prefer.

Sad that it seems like every notes app with sync seems to have at least one showstopping issue like this.
Yes, there was some of that, but the overarching issue was NOT that they might trade with China or Russia, but would become effective outposts of them. See Cuba, which was not only literally happy to host Russian nuclear arms, but Castro even said that they should nuke us anyway.

Or, more recently, Venezuela. Hugo Chavez was (ostensibly) democratically elected, as was Maduro. The result is anything but democratic rule or prosperity for its people. Same for Orban in Hungary, or Putin, or literally even Hitler. Democracies often convert to autocracies. There's a well-worn playbook for it.

We should also look at the results. Zero of these tinpot dictators supported by the US were annexed by the US or any of the 'Free World' powers. The people under those regimes inevitably advanced towards self-governance and prosperity.

Would South Koreans really have been better off under the rule of the Un family vs Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan? North Koreans are literally dying in the streets of starvation, while just south of the DMZ, here is plenty.

Were the Iranians, especially women, better off under the Ayotollahs than under the Shah?

Are the Cubans really better off under the Castro regime than before?

Of course we can compare the world to some ideal and say "everything is sh#t". We must compare it to the real alternatives available.

I'm NOT saying everything was good, and some was very bad, but that does not make the US the worst of all possible worlds. That's reserved for the megadeath leaders like Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pot, Un, etc... If they are not fought at every turn, they WILL take over. As we can see in Ukraine, as well as Tibet, the Uhguirs (sp?), and China's explicit claims on Taiwan. They'll always fabricate some excuse for their next claim.
and discord?
Exactly. It's like that quote about being angry: if it's not something you'll be mad about 6 weeks / 6 months / 6 years from now, why be mad?

Unless it's the point of the conversation, like you're discussing dev salaries and you want to pull up levels.fyi or layoffs.fyi to compare, who cares? Will anyone be better off if they knew which actor you were talking about 6 weeks from now? Meanwhile once I heard about levels.fyi I've been checking it compulsively every month since then...
I don't know about trying to fool you, but it's quite a chaotic mess of an article.
People used to drink radium water.
I'm sorry, but I have no interest in playing a game of True Scotsman Chases The Goalpost.

Even if I did, I have no idea what you are trying to say.

edit: sorry that was a bit harsh. Can you try to explain what property is C++ missing exactly to implement the Niche optimization? I suspect you are trying to say that C++ lacks proper sum types (which is true), but that's really orthogonal to the optimization.
> You could maybe talk to them about whether they think it’s having a negative impact on them and what do they think they can to do reduce it. If its not mutually agreed upon it will be difficult to work on it.

Are you sure you're 17 haha? You sound more mature than many adults.
Usually it's considered wasteful to buy a lot of food you have no plans to eat. I think the same can be said about any physical resource.
>Only active cooling can cool anything below the ambient temperature.

Not exactly:

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

Couple of videos explaining the effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3bJnKmeNJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zW9_ztTiw8
The PA market and the recording markets are different, and there is surprisingly little overlap between the people in each.
It’s surprising for me to see how underappreciated the USPS appears in some of these comments. I’ll make the bold claim that the following industries / companies would not exist without the USPS:

The Airline Industry: In the early days of American aviation, air transportation was unproven and not financially viable, until the USPS built the necessary infrastructure and gave contracts to airlines to allow them financial feasibility… starting in 1918! [1]

Machine Learning: In 1989 Yann LeCun wrote his seminal paper “Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten ZIP Code Recognition”, which used the USPS’s data set and has today become the hello world of machine learning tasks. More importantly this is the first commercial or industrial application of machine learning. [2]

Netflix: Before Streaming became a thing, Netflix was shipping DVDs via the USPS. The Postal Service adapted its processes and equipment to make this financially feasible, supporting Netflix through its transition to streaming. [3]

Amazon: Early Amazon was only a book vendor, the USPS offered special rates for books that made it possible for Bezos to be profitable from his garage … in 1994, thus birthing the behemoth it is today. [4]

Chickens: okay, not really. But the USPS ships millions of pounds of live chickens and other animals each year! [5]

[1] https://www.history.com/news/us-aviation-airmail-passenger-f...

[2] http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-89e.pdf

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/u-s-postal-service-to-netflix-...

[4] https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-Media-Mail-Book-Rate

[5] https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
The author called out a person of authority (many read their blog posts, and value that persons opinion) that is using the same rhetoric a decade apart for different platforms. Making promises about what the tech can provide, even though the first technology failed to provide it.

This is exactly what gaslighting is, a trusted person changing your perception.

I'm not sure if you already read all the above in the article, and know it/are willfully setting it aside to create a fake argument against their statements, or you just disagree with their statements, or you don't think the author is genuine.

Did you just want to have a discussion about those terms and made the conversational leap?
Maybe this is a silly question, but how can a mass spectrometer determine the age of water?
For SMS? And people put up with that? Here, SMS is free for the recipient, and quite often also free for the sender.

But even if SMS costs money, why not just use free apps like Whatsapp or Signal?

And if SMS does cost money for the recipient, does that mean it doesn't get used for 2FA? I imagine some people would block it in order to prevent unexpected costs.
I forgot email. Even better, integrate messages with my email client and then they would all be in one place. Can't wait. Don't care how they are sent, just want to know if I write something to someone it gets there. Don't want random strangers to be able to write to me without my consent. That's my spec for the ideal setup.
Findings from Apple Women’s Health Study advance science around menstrual cycles
Is the difference in quality of life so dramatic with a day wrapping on non-integer seconds when both proposals wrap at non-integer minutes and non-integer hours?

The real question is why stop at miliseconds - it seems inconsequential. Go all the way down and assume that as the hour/minute/second granularity all proved insufficient in the past, the same way milliseconds would become insufficient one day. Make the period parameterizable (i.e. not a constant), with only the current value at 24 hours 39 minutes 35 seconds 244 milliseconds.
Apple has plenty of competition for their product that includes an App Store. If you don’t like their product, you’re free to get an Android device like 85% of the rest of the world and 2/3rd of the EU.
Might be using a digital mode designed for weak signal communications. I'm not familiar with what might be used commercially but in amateur radio FT8 is popular and amazing. I live in a neighborhood with ~900 homes, restrictions on antennas, and quite a high noise floor. On 20m wavelength (granted, quite different from the 2m λ of this modem) with a center fed dipole antenna (SWR 1.5) that is 2m off the ground (not good for long distance because the ground reflects most of the radiated energy is up rather than out) and transmitting at 100 watts, I can send and receive messages 17700km (11000 miles). Using regular analog voice instead of FT8, I get about 3200km (2000 miles) with the same setup. Those distances are on the surface of the earth. The actual radio signal is traveling a bit further because it bounces between Earth and ionosphere as it travels. For this modem, the signal would be traveling line-of-sight and probably less than 1000km?
> missed out on something important for the last ten years

* If you write down what happened ("events"), and don't throw away said events, then you can always compare the current state of the system to how you think it should be (according to the events).

> I had problems optimizing a certain SQL query

* If you don't mutate your events, you are allowed to share them. Perhaps the DB you were working with had an unsuitable structure, making it hard to write fast SQL. No worries! Create a second service/DB with a structure designed for fast querying. Slurp the events which you did not throw away into your new database, and enjoy fast queries (without needing to break or cause regressions in the first service/db).
First time I traveled from US to Europe was Spain in 1988, and I was interested to see Burger King and McDonalds there. A decade later, visiting the UK, I was 'surprised' a bit to see so many 'US' brands there. Mid 2000s - visited Shanghai - so many Western/US brands, didn't feel much different than being in NYC. 2010s - visited Russia and Romania - again, many US brands there (or other European/UK brands I knew). I got Sbarro pizza in Moscow - cost about $45 for one large pizza, but still tasted the same.

Lately, I've started noticing 'UK' brand products coming to the US (Persil detergent, for example). Maybe many of these are Unilever brands being exported to more countries?

When people talking about "multinational corporations", this is what they mean. As a US person who's never traveled abroad, it might be jarring (or 'funny') at first to see familiar brands in a 'foreign' country. But we're ... a pretty global society now.
> >rise of smartphones was also the rise of “phubbing”, i.e. when people go on their phones instead of paying attention to the people around them

I remember when there werent just a few dominant phone manufacturers, so down the pub people used to show off their phone simply by placing it on the bar or table bench in the beer garden. As there were so many different phone's it was harder to steal because you might have been one of only a few in your town with the same type of phone.

Today, nearly other person has an iphone so there's nothing to show off about, and because there are so many, stealing them to order and then reverse engineering and hacking them has got cheaper, in order to get people's data for further criminal exploits.
Hey, my neighborhood also has a sign like that!
The WhatsApp dominance is the network effect in full force.
I have WhatsApp, SMS, Signal, Telegram, Element/Matrix. Telegram is used just for some nerdy international group and the API from my smart oower meter, the rest is WhatsApp only.
It's described as financial wizardry, but isn't it the same thing we've had for decades? Mortgage/discount points? Pay a little extra in exchange for a lower interest rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_points
I’m particularly interested in what they mean with these:

> Promoting privacy and the security of personal data;

> Shifting liability for software products and services to promote secure development practices; and,
With your skillset, I’d highly recommend starting your own consultancy. There’s likely an incredible demand for you can offer.

I’m also interested in connecting to see if there’s any opportunity with the projects that come my way. I’d love to keep in touch. Cheers!
Probably also from an increase in car dependency

It means kids cannot play outside or go to a friends house etc

Adults don't typically suffer the same restrictions so at least have an alternative to their phones
The ebikes aren't dangerous, the cars that hit them are. I think that's an important distinction.
I'm genuinely curious, how common were lifelong injuries from unsafe playgrounds? I'm 32, and even the structures I had as a kid are now gone. And those were tame compared to what my parents had. Yet I can't think of anyone that had serious injuries from them. In comparison, I know multiple people that have lifelong injuries they will never fully recover from drunk driving.
Left the "industry" early for similar reasons. It used to be fun when it was looser, more bottom up. I was spoiled perhaps — but I can tell you the job ain't what it used to be.
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