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Relevant post from a few days ago: Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32345670 I’m curious if anyone kno…

FYI I’m seeing a 404 from that last link. Is this the intended link? https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/2019-10-17-you-want-tor-browse...

In the spirit of curiosity and playfulness I would like to respond with a bold claim: The distinction between self and other is simply a concept. Certainly useful in many situation…

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” - Alan Watts

I’ll bite. The data/graphs look suspicious and convincing enough, so WTF did happen? I was hoping for an answer but alas there was none. Anyone have plausible theories? Is this an …

> to produce one litre of petrol it takes 1.29 kg of oil, of which 85% (1.1 kg) is carbon. And as only 1/10,750 of the carbon remains from the plants that were buried millions of y…

Thanks! I was going to make a similar comment myself but HN isn’t too keen on these ideas yet. Glad to see other like-minded folks here. The Wikipedia page for plasma cosmology is …

This is a thoughtful comment but IMO your phrasing is too strong and potentially misleading. As far as science is concerned, the jury is still out on stellar nucleosynthesis. The l…

JS engines have had many serious vulnerabilities in their JIT optimizers, it’s not myopic at all and is a well known technique in the industry. I agree that some folks aren’t execu…

Adding to this great comment with my own experience at work where we extensively use signal processing and time series compression algorithms to visualize large amounts of biologic…

This is known as a digital watermark, which falls within the domain of adversarial machine learning. https://www.sec.cs.tu-bs.de/pubs/2018-eurosp.pdf

Interesting! Now what is the correct pronunciation… Day-muhn? My colleagues all seem to say it differently, and I’ve always been curious which one of us sounds the most foolish.

> we develop the notion of representation group flow (RG flow) to characterize the propagation of signals through the network. By tuning networks to criticality, we give a practica…

It’s a valid concern and many folks have raised it here on threads concerning this topic. The short answer is yes: beyond mannitol, niacin, and even bespoke substances designed to …

Listen, your comments on all these threads make it clear you’re seriously pessimistic about psychedelic medicine, and that’s perfectly ok. What bothers me is the incessant pushing …

I'm afraid you're misrepresenting this important area of research. > Psilocybin is being studied in conjunction with 10-20 therapy sessions For a quick reality check, you could tak…

I know you comment on a wide range of topics here, and perhaps you’re jaded by some personal experiences with local ketamine clinics - but IMO your tone comes across as unnecessari…

This is satire right? You might be getting downvotes because it’s not clear if you’re serious, and those claims seem quite ridiculous at face value.

While the benefits of ivermectin in a single-drug regime are heavily contested, a lot of folks here seem to be unaware that certain multi-drug regimes have shown promising results.…

> Our trees accumulate metals from the soil, making their wood less digestible to fungi Given that fungi play a crucial role in decomposition and also water/nutrient exchange betwe…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30517519

Worth highlighting that they describe it as coordinated activity, ie not random. > studying electrical activity in certain arbitrary frequency bands doesn't tell us a lot about the…