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I've recently started using Atuin (https://atuin.sh/), and can't get enough. Now it's one of the first things I install on any new machine/environment I work with, and it's been an absolute game-changer.

Like many of you, I am spending too much time lately applying to jobs and repeatedly typing my resume into job application portals. I figured I could at least speed up a pretty standard part of the process. This AutoHotKey script template can be formatted to enter your employment history and education into job applications that use the Workday portal.

Not sure if I'm missing something, but the article doesn't seem to match the headline?

The only login-relevant information I can find is from a sql connection request which has 1 username and password hardcoded into the command (presumably a employee login to access an internal database). Nowhere in the article do I see anything about user emails and passwords.

This is something I've been looking for ways to do for quite some time, and I haven't find a good option other than PropSwap - would be a really neat feature for Fanduel/Draftkings to add, considering the volume they're getting now.

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

These are both absolutely brilliant and moving; you can't go wrong with either of them.

Appreciate the response and love the product! I've tried multiple alternatives to Goodreads for organizing my books and have resigned myself to spreadsheets; really hoping this turns into something mainstream. Best of luck!

This is really helpful, thank you! It's been mentioned before here, but what are your plans for privacy/monetization? Also (out of curiosity) where are you getting the book data from? It's pretty exhaustive and fast, but the only problem is that it doesn't prioritize the "real" version of the book (ie when I start typing Fahrenheit 451, the actual book is further down and stuff like the cliffnotes version or literary analyses come up first).

Here I thought it was because of Squarespace...

Recently read an article about how the Trevor Project (hotline for LGBT+ youth) was starting to implement GPT-2 "patients" in their training routine for volunteers. While they aren't using it in public-facing contexts (yet), it's pretty scary to imagine the implications of depending on this stuff more and more.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/26/1020010/trevor-p...

Yeah, so Ruqqus does something very similar at the moment - using "guilds" and allowing individuals to maintain their own. The problem is with the people that the platform attracts - basically every guild on Ruqqus is something along the lines of "blackcrimesmatter" or "wakeupwhitepeople" not because the site is explicitly disincentivizing people with other beliefs from joining but because the audience is self-selected (people who think Pepe is a symbol of resistance) and because it's hard to end up with a diverse userbase. Decentralized networks where participants interact are still bound by the laws of human behavior, and people aren't going to frequent a space where they aren't welcome. The reason that Matrix 'works' is because there is no cross-cluster interaction: I have a server set up where I can chat with friends, but have no reason to interact with the pretty horrible use cases. Sites like these, on the other hand, are designed to normalize those use cases and encourage you to join those communities.

This is an interesting project by all means, but I'm curious as to what your goal/vision for this project is. The reason that most online forum-esque services involve some sort of moderation isn't because they give in to the so-called "woke SJW Twitter mob", it's because they want to expand their user bases - a platform cannot host large amounts of sexist content and attract women, it cannot stop taking action against content that is racist and expect a multicultural user base, and so forth.

As for an intial starting point, it makes sense that you are looking to capture users that have been kicked off places like Reddit, FB, or can't participate on Parler any longer and I'm sure you will have success within that target group if you are able to get this off the ground. However, I'm not sure where you're going to get new users from after that - and without a more diverse user base, you are not only limiting the spread of ideas from your platform to elsewhere but are also creating an echo chamber where people who self-select for "my views are not tolerable in the mainstream" are the only ones who are talking. This problem will get worse over time, and make it even harder to attract new users.

Like you say in your blog post, a major source of frustration with existing technology is that "They prefer purity to practicality". It seems an awful lot like you are trying to do the same thing here, and while this project will certainly be entertaining, I'm not sure how viable this will end up being - I'm having a hard time seeing this as anything other than another Voat/Ruqqus.

Particularly noteworthy findings:

HackerRank (the coding challenge/interview platform) allows viewing profiles even without logging in - While it doesn't show things you do for specific employers, still not something I realized the site was doing and could have ramifications if you use it to play around.

7Cups, the online therapy/talkspace site, allows viewing profiles even without logging in. Far more dangerous and worrisome than a lot of the other sites on here because of stigma around mental health; it's easy for me to imagine an employer or insurance salesman running a username through here and finding out that a candidate has been (likely) dealing with MH issues.

Tinder(!) lets allows viewing a user's public pictures despite not being logged in - seems like a not great privacy measure - not sure how resistant this is to crawlers and the like but a tad bit concerning.

Body fat % is more accurate than BMI when it comes to gauging health risk, but it is also a lot harder to estimate/calculate so BMI is generally used to estimate risk factors. This is a problem will all BMI-based metrics, and it's worth noting that BMI is not one-size-fits-all. Different body types (muscular vs lean, for example), different ethnicities/cultures, different genders, all have different definitions of a "healthy" body and BMI isn't able to take all of that into account. That's not to say that it can't be useful, but take it with a grain of salt when it comes to interpreting BMI across different fields.

Check out The StoryGraph (https://app.thestorygraph.com/)! Is not Amazon-owned, and while it's not built to be a Goodreads replacement per se, it's been super helpful for discovering new reads and I like the review/tagging system better than GR.

Sent, thank you!

Hey Stefano! Do you have positions available for summer interns? I'm a CS + Biomedical Engineering student looking to leverage my technical skills to change the healthcare landscape through AI, and Epistemic sounds like a dream job!