Hacker News: henryteeare

New comment by henryteeare in "Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo"

henryteeare — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:04:32 +0000

I believe the discussion in #8634 is for a different change, but one of a similar nature.

New comment by henryteeare in "Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo"

henryteeare — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:50:59 +0000

The response was, "needs a discussion," as in a post on `https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions`, rather than directly creating a PR.

There also was feedback saying approximately that they've been burned by security changes in the recent past and don't want to run into similar issues without due consideration.

New comment by henryteeare in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

henryteeare — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:05:00 +0000

One vote isn't enough. Just Obama was insufficient when congress was not sufficiently aligned.

New comment by henryteeare in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

henryteeare — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:34:25 +0000

It might be, though it also sounds like where I work, which is a company that has been mentioned a couple of times on HN (to a mixed reception).

New comment by henryteeare in "We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it"

henryteeare — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 03:00:38 +0000

> And what is it with the trend to end so many words with “-ism” these days?

According to wikipedia[0], "isms" have been derided since the mid-19th century at least.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism

New comment by henryteeare in "A college student made an app to detect AI-written text"

henryteeare — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:03:07 +0000

Really? Perhaps they updated it, because I got "likely human generated" for the parent article.

"Your GPTZero score corresponds to the likelihood of the text being AI generated: 338.59305536714294 Your text is likely human generated!"

New comment by henryteeare in "Global shipping container shortage is now a container surplus"

henryteeare — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:48:36 +0000

Are you of the “if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” persuasion?

New comment by henryteeare in "A biochemist’s view of life’s origin reframes cancer and aging"

henryteeare — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:45:04 +0000

> all it needs is a weak simple catalyst,

Catalysis lowers the activation barrier, sure, but you still have to contend with the thermodynamic equilibrium in the absence of the catalyst, in addition to subsequent degradation by light, etc.

> ocean full or random stuff that we can't actually imagine today

We probably can't ever really know what was in the Earth's ocean before life, but quite a bit of research has been put into figuring out some plausible conditions and then testing the hypothesised pathways put forward by the leading theories under said conditions.

All this is to say, yes, clearly abiogenesis occurred, but there are major gaps in the leading theories that are interesting and testable. I don't think it's very useful to gloss over the details, even if in the end the best we can hope for is a plausible pathway given a specific set of assumed conditions.

New comment by henryteeare in "A biochemist’s view of life’s origin reframes cancer and aging"

henryteeare — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 09:17:17 +0000

(1) is correct, but I believe (2) is no longer assumed to be true (especially the part about random RNA in the ocean).

The major problem is concentration. Even if you invoke geological timescales and a favourable redox environment, concentrations of reactants would be rapidly diluted in the ocean. Since there are quite a few dehydration reactions in the synthesis of oligonucleotides (like RNA) and proteins, when diluted in the ocean, the plentiful water drives the equilibrium back towards the starting materials. Without some mechanism to accumulate the reactants to form the first R/DNA, it remains an open question how the process got started.

There used to be a homeostasis-first theory—to compete with the metabolism-first and oligonucleotide-first theories—but it hasn't gained a lot of traction as an independent theory.

New comment by henryteeare in "Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco"

henryteeare — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:06:39 +0000

> aren't all self-driving vehicles equipped with lidars

I believe Tesla has made a lot of noise about not using lidar.[0]

[0]: https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/03/tesla-ai-chief-explains-w...

New comment by henryteeare in "Myth 16: ‘What comes after Putin must be better than Putin’"

henryteeare — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:00:17 +0000

They list their donors fairly clearly linked from the same page you posted, https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-funding/donors-cha...

Did you find something nefarious?

New comment by henryteeare in "No one cared about my spreadsheets"

henryteeare — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 02:05:59 +0000

I believe the author meant "old.class + old.study = 40" vs "new.class + new.study = 27" (where new.study = 14). It took me a re-read to come to that conclusion.

New comment by henryteeare in "Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers"

henryteeare — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:40:54 +0000

In some countries, e.g. Australia or South Africa, suburb just means "neighbourhood" rather than specifically an outlying one.

New comment by henryteeare in "AirPods Max"

henryteeare — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:35:28 +0000

The new iPhone is the 12, just fyi.

Even though they were not as recent, I believe your argument would be more compelling if you used Apple's more similar products, e.g. AirPods Pro, or perhaps the latest watch.