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The Medical Power of Hypnosis

sprt — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:21:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220519-does-hypnosis-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679980

Points: 3

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New comment by sprt in "Assorted less(1) tips"

sprt — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:57:47 +0000

I'm so mad that I didn't know the hitting F thing!

New comment by sprt in "Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways"

sprt — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:37:06 +0000

Terribly so. So we need more high-quality research, not to stop researching it. The scientific method can only get better by putting it in practice.

New comment by sprt in "Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways"

sprt — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:18:52 +0000

It seems that the statement "blood flow doesn't tell you anything about neural activity" is definitely not true: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/brain-metrics/what_does...

Also, it seems dangerous to suggest rejecting studying a specific area because the scientific tools and our understanding around it are currently limited - this is what science is for after all. If we thought this way, we wouldn't have nutrition research.

New comment by sprt in "Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways"

sprt — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:02:02 +0000

> It could mean "I'm lonely, so I think unlike everyone else." This doesn't make a lot of sense. Would people do it out of spite?

Makes sense to me actually: I wouldn't say it's even necessarily conscious, but the less you interact with others, the more you can become set in your own ways and create pathways to seeing your beliefs as truths.

New comment by sprt in "Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone"

sprt — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:19:05 +0000

I suspect it's a needed trade-off between security and practicality. I have no idea how "needed" it is though, can someone shed some light on this? Also, couldn't Signal add their own encryption layer?

New comment by sprt in "Non-Blocking Parallelism for Services in Go"

sprt — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:27:55 +0000

Agree, in fact this pattern is found almost verbatim in Go's documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/semaphore#example-packa...

How async should have been

sprt — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://sobolevn.me/2020/06/how-async-should-have-been

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735600

Points: 1

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Docker Container Network Isolation

sprt — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:51:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cb-net.co.uk/devops/docker-container-network-isolation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559581

Points: 2

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HTML Tags Memory Test

sprt — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:37:31 +0000

Article URL: https://codepen.io/plfstr/full/zYqQeRw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25476793

Points: 1

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New comment by sprt in "51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities"

sprt — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:17:06 +0000

Nice. I like the (shortest) output of this one better. And as opposed to trivy, it was able to detect the packages (and 1 vuln) in ghcr.io/linuxserver/swag.

New comment by sprt in "51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities"

sprt — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:25:28 +0000

Was looking into this yesterday as I have a bunch of containers running on my media server. Found this tool: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy which allows you to easily scan your images for vulns. Anyone have other recs?

New comment by sprt in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

sprt — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:05:38 +0000

Yes, can someone clarify this? What the hell is going on here?

New comment by sprt in "A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company"

sprt — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:27:15 +0000

Respectfully disagree. You're essentially arguing that they're not politically motivated in staying at/leaving their job. That's fair. Nevertheless their actions translate either support, inaction, or opposition. The implication which MLK argues is that inaction is harmful to the movement.

New comment by sprt in "A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company"

sprt — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:38:07 +0000

Which, as your parent seems to not realize, is also a political stance. This dichotomy is exactly what MLK refers to in the Letter from a Bermingham Jail (i.e. positive vs negative peace).

New comment by sprt in "Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement"

sprt — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:07:39 +0000

> If so it’d turn around a long held belief that STEM education is biased towards men. At least in grade school.

No, you can't infer this conclusion from that paper.

Yes, the paper claims that there exists some bias towards girls (from teachers' grading). And the sentence you quote claims that without that specific bias, the gender gap would be in favor of boys ("12.5% larger"). However, we do not know if this figure is free of bias (IMO, fair to say probably not). Therefore, there might be other biases in STEM in favor of boys that could explain the gender gap in their favor.

New comment by sprt in "A simple way to get more value from metrics"

sprt — Sat, 30 May 2020 14:30:34 +0000

Interesting, wonder if he's looked at the data from levels.fyi. Although it's surely not representative.

New comment by sprt in "T-Mobile officially completes merger with Sprint, CEO John Legere steps down"

sprt — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:56:23 +0000

Sounds like an application for Multipath TCP: http://www.multipath-tcp.org/

The Psychology of Miles per Gallons

sprt — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:29:31 +0000

Article URL: http://yann.lecun.com/ex/fun/#units

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736559

Points: 2

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New comment by sprt in "Algorithm for Drawing Trees"

sprt — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:26:16 +0000

This is interesting, I was asked this question in an interview for a Microsoft internship, but for a binary tree.