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Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by jplayer01 »

gdy wrote: post #84
dTal wrote: post #74

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I can understand the "ick" factor - putting this much of oneself online, without any contextual filter, embodies a level of intimacy unusual with strangers. I don't think it's weird to find it discomfiting seeing notes about machine learning side by side with relationship advice. It feels like a bit much from one guy. But I think it's very unfair to say it paints a very bleak picture of his life. I jumped straight to…

"Maintain eye contact." Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. If you need a manual on maintaining eye contact, you probably just want to have sex with somebody, if not with this woman, than with another one. The creepy part is that this section in wiki teaches you to simulate feelings you don't actually have in order to get laid and this direc…

> Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist.

I'm not sure if you're being serious here. Do you really think there don't exist any shy guys at all anywhere that find it hard to talk to attractive women or look them in the eyes? Seriously?

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by dTal »

gdy wrote: post #84
dTal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can understand the "ick" factor - putting this much of oneself online, without any contextual filter, embodies a level of intimacy unusual with strangers. I don't think it's weird to find it discomfiting seeing notes about machine learning side by side with relationship advice. It feels like a bit much from one guy. But I think it's very unfair to say it paints a very bleak picture of his life. I jumped straight to…

"Maintain eye contact." Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. If you need a manual on maintaining eye contact, you probably just want to have sex with somebody, if not with this woman, than with another one. The creepy part is that this section in wiki teaches you to simulate feelings you don't actually have in order to get laid and this direc…

You need only google the phrase "eye contact hard" to discover that what you say is not universally true.

But I think you're tapping into something deeper, something I was going to respond to in my original comment, but thought better of it because you [edit: they] hadn't actually made the argument at that point. Now you've flirted much more closely with it, so I will say it:

There is a modern suspicion of the entire concept of teaching men how to raise their sexual value. There is a sense that it involves "faking it" somehow, or that it represents an unhealthy obsession, or means the man is only interested in sex. But it's this taboo which permits the distasteful 'PUA' community to flourish - it pushes the practice of self-conscious improvement to the fringes, where taboos are disregarded. It's a dangerous state of affairs when a man's best hope at improving their lot is toxic misogyny. Far better if there's easy access to good, practical advice that works, alongside a healthy worldview.

It's notable that the taboo is only for men - we don't assume a woman "probably just wants to have sex", just because she puts on lipstick (the purpose of which is to simulate attraction!)

(It would be interesting to further explore the sexual politics behind this taboo, and why the corresponding one for women is so much weaker, despite male noises about "preferring girls who don't wear makeup", and in particular how such taboos are powerful weapons in the 'battle of the sexes' that improve the ability to distinguish fitness levels in the opposite sex - but it's a fairly hot can of worms that I'd rather just allude to than attempt to untangle here.)

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by bloopernova »

j7k6 wrote: post #76
bloopernova wrote: post #69

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This is fantastic! I love the live search results feature. I don't suppose you have your source available with a free license? EDIT: wait, I see it: https://github.com/j7k6/docs.j7k6.org

Thanks! I'm actually thinking about releasing it as a standalone Jekyll theme some time.

I'm not familiar with Jekyll. How much work was it to get your site up and running besides the posts' content?

I'd love to be able to run the same kind of site you are - a series of markdown posts with a live search frontend. Did you use a specific tutorial to do that? Is there a Jekyll live-search plugin or whatever it uses?

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by gdy »

dTal wrote: post #102
gdy wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Maintain eye contact." Well, you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist. If you need a manual on maintaining eye contact, you probably just want to have sex with somebody, if not with this woman, than with another one. The creepy part is that this section in wiki teaches you to simulate feelings you don't actually have in order to get laid and this direc…

You need only google the phrase "eye contact hard" to discover that what you say is not universally true. But I think you're tapping into something deeper, something I was going to respond to in my original comment, but thought better of it because you [edit: they] hadn't actually made the argument at that point. Now you've flirted much more closely with it, so I will say it: There is a modern suspicion of the entire…

You are confusing me with another person.

Putting on makeup doesn't create an illusion of having emotions one doesn't really feel.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by doomjunky »

opan wrote: post #96
fartcannon wrote: post #57

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Aren't you worried that google or Microsoft will deprecate your personal library? Google isn't exactly good at keeping non-gmail programs in good shape and my original MS One note files simply do not open anymore. Do you at least keep a plain text file somewhere? It just seems like such a delicate choice of software to use for something like your personal knowledge. Certainly a wiki of some kind would be better?

I had a similar thought to this. I was shocked that he was willingly and publicly making proprietary software such a part of his life, and I thought of emacs org-mode, but maybe he doesn't like that sort of workflow. I've only barely used org myself, but I've seen a lot of thoughtbot talks and such that make me feel like bringing it up in case someone goes farther with it than I did.

Thanks to GDPR now everyone can export all their data.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by 0815test »

gdy wrote: post #104
dTal wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need only google the phrase "eye contact hard" to discover that what you say is not universally true. But I think you're tapping into something deeper, something I was going to respond to in my original comment, but thought better of it because you [edit: they] hadn't actually made the argument at that point. Now you've flirted much more closely with it, so I will say it: There is a modern suspicion of the entire…

You are confusing me with another person. Putting on makeup doesn't create an illusion of having emotions one doesn't really feel.

"Faking emotions one doesn't really feel" is not why calibrating one's approach to eye-contact can be beneficial - in fact, these two things have basically nothing to do with one another! If anything, it's helpful to be able to conceal one's emotions before mutual attraction has been clearly established, lest an excessively overt emotional state be reinterpreted as aggression. (You know how people tell you not to make eye contact towards an aggressive dog, because the dog would see that as a challenge for dominance? Well, the relevant social instincts are still fairly active, even in humans. And yes, they can lead to unwanted screwups when you're meeting someone, e.g. for dating!)

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by dTal »

gdy wrote: post #104
dTal wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need only google the phrase "eye contact hard" to discover that what you say is not universally true. But I think you're tapping into something deeper, something I was going to respond to in my original comment, but thought better of it because you [edit: they] hadn't actually made the argument at that point. Now you've flirted much more closely with it, so I will say it: There is a modern suspicion of the entire…

You are confusing me with another person. Putting on makeup doesn't create an illusion of having emotions one doesn't really feel.

I'm sorry, I had noticed you weren't the same person, but must have somehow forgot it while composing my comment.

Anyway. The precise function of makeup varies, but the specific case of lipstick is, as I already alluded to, designed to subconsciously simulate attraction through the mimicking of flushed lips. That's pretty much exactly the "illusion of having emotions one doesn't really feel" - and far more directly sexual than merely holding eye contact.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by xtracerx »

This is a great project. I've been attempting to achieve a similar goal but just by writing articles on topics I'm interested in. Even if its a synthesis of other things I'm reading or studying. Essentially trying to boil a subject down and re-explain it in a compelling way to help cement the knowledge.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by bcaa7f3a8bbc »

petra wrote: post #99
bcaa7f3a8bbc wrote: post #97

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It reminds me of Shii's wiki, too. Shii's wiki is not only a personal knowledge base, but also a piece of important documentation of Internet cultural history. Unlike the pre-2000 Usenet era, Internet culture today (e.g. those on 4chan) is no longer systematic documented, and for better or worse, it has a significant influence to the "cyberspace" as a whole. But when people started to realize the existence of somethi…

Fascinating. How does on go on to finding the next shii , telling us what will happen next with such accuracy and insight ?

I think you've missed my point. I'm not saying that Shii was a wizard, oracle or prophet, and we should find the next one to predict the future for us. When looking back, things are often pretty straightforward and clear, hindsight is always 20/20.

Instead, what I'm saying is that, he preserved an important segment of the history for us by creating his personal knowledge base, especially that, it was written by someone who was an Internet-native, worked extensively on Wikipedia at its early time, and credited as one influential figure who shaped early 4chan. So we can use the material from his knowledge base to gain some insights about some parts of the undocumented history.

And I think it's another advantage of an knowledge base - it can provide a good record of history from a personal perspective, more comprehensive than a blog or diary.

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