Hacker News: othello

Could a human enter a black hole to study it?

othello — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:10:04 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/could-a-human-enter-a-black-hole-to-study-it-153364

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44680844

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by othello in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

othello — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:01:49 +0000

Would you have specific recommendations of such vendors?

New comment by othello in "Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1"

othello — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:37:12 +0000

Just a decade and a half as it turns out! (though things definitely felt dizzyingly fast back then - think Google was launched just 5 years after HTML)

- HTML first released in 1993

- AJAX in 1999

- Websocket first proposed in 2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket

New comment by othello in "Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments"

othello — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:39:26 +0000

Barcelona has a 16,000 people per square km density - that’s already one of the highest in Europe.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/barcelona-pop....

New comment by othello in "Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing"

othello — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:23:34 +0000

We are already the densest OECD city by quite a margin! (22,000 per sqkm in the inner 20 district, twice that of Manhanttan and 3 times that of Tokyo - and still 8,600 in the Petite Couronne, which includes 8 million people)

Deposit of natural hydrogen gas detected deep in Albanian mine

othello — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:13:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2416060-huge-deposit-of-natural-hydrogen-gas-detected-deep-in-albanian-mine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39355029

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by othello in "Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper"

othello — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 15:58:45 +0000

That's incorrect, the Top 5 in econ are (in no particular order):

- Econometrica

- American Economic Review

- Quarterly Journal of Economics

- Journal of Political Economy

- Review of Economic Studies

New comment by othello in "Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 476,000 years old"

othello — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:12:54 +0000

https://archive.ph/8kuGI

Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 476,000 years old

othello — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:11:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2392894-earliest-evidence-of-buildings-made-from-wood-is-476000-years-old/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585213

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

This AI Boom Will Bust - The Slope of Enlightenment is Coming

othello — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:33:56 +0000

Article URL: https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/this-ai-boom-will-bust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36329434

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by othello in "Show HN: Do androids dream of climate change? A visual experiment"

othello — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:33:04 +0000

Here’s a clickable link:

https://aureliensaussay.github.io/nightmares/climate_nightma...

Show HN: Do androids dream of climate change? A visual experiment

othello — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:29:48 +0000

Hi HN! I'm an environmental economist specializing on climate change and I've run a little visualization experiment using Midjourney (v5) this weekend on the latest IPCC report:

https://aureliensaussay.github.io/nightmares/climate_nightmares.html

Essentially, I have gone through very single headline statement of the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report (SYR) released last week, and used each sentence as a prompt to MJ - tangentially getting to it to illustrate what it "thinks" of climate change if you will.

I've found the results quite fascinating - hope it'll provide a more attractive format for people to actually read the Synthesis Report's headline findings!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35435851

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Do androids dream of climate change? A visual experiment

othello — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:42:57 +0000

Article URL: https://aureliensaussay.github.io/nightmares/climate_nightmares.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35422519

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by othello in "France's baby bust"

othello — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:33:01 +0000

It did not - the population inhabiting the current French territory had represented 20% of Europe's population quite consistently since medieval times. E.g. France numbered 19.7 million inhabitants as early as 1457 [1]

The population explosion that's discussed in the article (the population dividend of the demographic transition) just never happened in France - which is the whole point of why its relative standing dropped so much over the past two centuries compared to other hitherto much smaller countries such as England and Germany.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France

New comment by othello in "I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)"

othello — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 05:43:19 +0000

Absolutely! Also “town” seems rather uncharitable as Marseille has been a city without interruption for the past 2600 years since it’s founding as Massalia by Greek colonists - making it almost as old as Rome. It’s home to 1.8 million today, and a beautiful place to visit!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Marseille

Rising sea levels: House worth 381k collapsing in the ocean in Rodanthe, NC

othello — Thu, 12 May 2022 10:28:11 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/tollytaylor/status/1524128479394029571

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31351848

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

Eat the rich Why millennials and gen Z have turned their backs on capitalism

othello — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:27:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/20/eat-the-rich-why-millennials-and-generation-z-have-turned-their-backs-on-capitalism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593065

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Say Goodbye to Your Manager

othello — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/manager-work-life-changes/620096/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28576107

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by othello in "Empty storefronts are killing neighbourhoods"

othello — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 16:28:14 +0000

To enjoy modern standards of living, medium to high density urban arrangements are much less resource intensive than suburban sprawl, which the relevant comparison point.

The figure you quote, aggregated at the global level, entirely results from a comparison of city lifestyle with pre-industrial countryside lifestyles in developing countries. By contrast, living in the countryside or in suburbia in rich nations is much more environmentally damaging than in dense urban areas, which is what gp was referring to.

Elon Musk Is Maybe, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing

othello — Sun, 09 May 2021 22:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/elon-musk-spacex-starship-launch/618781/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100372

Points: 4

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