25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activity of 25 of your friends and the others are relegated to essentially being contacts.
I remember about two years ago Facebook was getting into a lot of trouble due to the amount of negative mental impact it had/has on its users and they did a study which found social media can have a negative impact on its users unless the user only follows a small circle of real-life friends and interacts with those people online. I don't have a source to this; I'm willing to accept there isn't real _evidence_ behind this claim.
Anyway, I'm surprised social media has been around this long, has been the subject of such controversy and there haven't been any or many real, impactful changes to the nature of it. Facebook and Instagram are, in my opinion, trying to be too much. They want to combine personal and public spaces. This, of course, works from a business perspective. But what are the long-term consequences of these products on our mental health and society?
We need a new social media focused on personal, tight-knit groups of people and interests. One that makes this the focus and doesn't stray for the purposes of profits. And, if that's not feasible in an economy that demands growth, we need better legislation demanding certain consumer protections are created for this sphere of products.
Some of those friends didn't realize it was a game.
An ex-Googler (that never played defense![1]) tried that with the social network Path. I think the limit was 50 friends though. It failed.
Edit: [1] Quote attribution: "I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense." - Dave Morin
Group chat: text/Messages/WhatsApp. The fewer frills, the better.
It takes some time to mute everyone I want muted, but it only took a couple days to mute the more post-happy folks. I discovered that most of my network hardly post.
Instagram is so much more enjoyable now. 2 minutes a day, rarely more.
I don't consider myself an extreme socialite, but as someone who has lived in 3 states in the US and whose friends are scattered around the world after getting a degree here, this sounds really, really, really perverse.
That said, most of my use of Facebook is not to keep tabs on the people I care about (a lot of them don't use Facebook much, if at all).
The product that the OP described already exists: it's called a chat room (IRC channel, Skype group chat, Telegram channel, Whatsapp group chat, etc).
Many, many have tried.
One important thing to note is that it will be monetized through a subscription, not by selling consumer data or driving sales of targeted ads.
Check it out @ https://get.thread-app.com/
Almost similar to where each user is a subreddit and you create a multireddit.
This needs to be baked-in to have any real impact.
C.f. https://cocoon.com/
I don't think that Facebook will be replaced with something so similar. I think what we need is an open data-platform that can contain (in a controlled way) social media data along with other kinds of data and then allow building social media apps on top of it. Otherwise we'll always be stuck using whatever the biggest supplier builds for us.
* At the same time:
- A LOT of companies are uncomfortable making some of this data SaaS / external. I'm not saying they're right, but it's there
- A LOT of companies are unique, or strongly believe they're unique, and that they need bespoke / highly customized software. I'm not saying they're right... ;)
- I'm a techie, so it's taken me a decade to realize that implementing a new backoffice suite by a consulting company is one third or less technical / IT project; and two thirds or more business process / transformation project. And the actual success / failure of these projects is almost entirely guided by the business transformation part.
And when a company views ERP as a technical/IT project, it is most likely to not end well (small scale example: Sally in accounting refuses to change and insists that the new fancy software, on-prem or SaaS, do things the way she's done them for 2 decades in Excel, because that's "how their company does it"... no matter how inefficient or outdated they are. If you're seen as an IT project, it's your duty to accommodate Sally and now you're building the same thing over and over, compromising any value in your new ERP, SaaS or otherwise. If you're seen as business transformation project, you have some chance to make a difference and make things better...]
- Therefore SaaS would reduce FAR less effort in ERP than many techies (including myself) feel. Basically, you'd still have a consulting company come in to (try) to do business transformation so your internal processes actually accept and match the SaaS processes; build interfaces; and then maintain and support.
Disclosure/example: I'm in consulting part of IBM, and while I'm currently on a legacy ERP project, my colleagues in "Cloud/SaaS" (i.e. "let somebody else host it for you") side are no less busy than before. Mind you, they are on average providing higher value services, so that's a plus :)
This 1000%. There's so much institutional friction with these projects for so many reasons; some of them political, some of them interpersonal, some of them just because someone doesn't want to. So many of these projects fail because people just don't want to work towards the goal, or simply do as little as possible and things move slower than molasses.
People don't want or care to change their processes. They do things that way because they've always done things that way. They see tools not as a way to get more done or be efficient, but as something that's "moving their cheese" and they don't like it. It doesn't matter how overworked they are by remedial tasks that could be automated, until you show them everything finished, end-to-end, working flawlessly, they won't be interested in the slightest.
The sad thing is that if there were some strong executive leadership behind these projects and they saw it as a positive thing, there could be better traction and better results. Instead, most execs look at these projects as mundane details and hand them off to whatever sad middle manager is going to take the heat for the project going south. The result is no teeth behind the initiative which even further exacerbates the issue of people not caring or lifting a finger.
SaaS can be on-premises.
> Sally in accounting refuses to change
The tools need to adapt to the user, the user shouldn't need to adapt to the tool. That said, if there are obvious efficiency gains (e.g. you can stop typing "COMPLETED" three hundred times a day and just click a button that fills the field for you; even better, the process marks it 'completed' once all the human verification has taken place) and the user is stubborn, well, maybe the tool should offer the efficient solution, allow the inefficient behavior, and log metrics on the whole thing. Management might take interest.
It's at least 50% sales.
I would love to see the spreadsheet reinvented to be a) collaboration-oriented, and b) a good on-ramp to ever-growing programming skills. So that when Bob in the next department over makes that crucial internal spreadsheet, you can safely and usefully interact with it from your crucial internal spreadsheet. Basically, to make every spreadsheet a potential microservice.
I've spent some years failing to figure out how to make that work. So if anybody manages, please let me know.
Splunk is a good example of this. I've worked at several public and private muti-billion dollar orgs, and they all rant and rave about how good Splunk is over whatever else they were using.
So, build more splunks. Maybe something that aggregates monitoring multiple servers. A plug and play Status Dashboard for a company's internal apps. Like this: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
Which potential security threat do you want to eliminate to reduce the splunk bill?
So for example, if you would pen an email/slack talking about a slide deck from a recent meeting, in the widget the product would have already found the deck ready for you to drag and drop it into the message.
It worked freakishly good, and saved a whole bunch of time trying to find a file in the mess that everyones Google Drive becomes.
The problem they were having was no enterprise wanted to hand over an entire copy of their data for them to index.
The RPC consultants, often titled AI / ML consultants, make money hand over fist traveling from site to site and implementing some automatic procedures.
Same with chat bots. The past 2-3 years there's been an explosion in demand for chat bots, and these often take entire teams to implement and train. Again, lots of bespoke products.
Who gets these gigs largely depends on networking and sales. The big companies (Accenture, etc.) are rolling in this, since they also have a good picture of company software from previous projects.
The accounting industry is also desperate to get in on the ML revolution. I've lost count on how many times I've been contacted by recruiters in that space, who want magic ML pixie dust.
The market is there, but it can be difficult to break into as an outsider, or smaller player - if you're planning in building some one-size fits all product. Best plan, IMO, would be to focus on some niche part of the process, and become the best at just that - and then pitch to the big companies that deal with actual F500 clients.
There are of course exceptions, but a 5 man startup vs Accenture offering the same base product, Accenture is gonna walk away with the gig 99 out of 100 times.
(But with that said, a lot of the startups that focus on these spaces, seem to be ex-consultants from said big consulting firms. Logical enough, as they have both seen the problems first hand, and built networks within the industry.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation
I noticed that since I worked at the RPA team of my current employer. :-)
This is basically asking for a market gap in a potentially very profitable market. That's silly, everybody wants that.
A lot of ERP systems move away from well-trodden programming tools to their own custom stuff. I know of ERP systems have their own source control version control systems. Why? They're often awful to use. The programmers that use them are often business-focused haven't really used stuff outside that ecosystem. So they don't know how bad it is.
Most ERP implementations i've come across make little use of automated testing as well.
There is always this exception that makes a SaaS ERP not fit for a company.
Hoping to get a white paper or at least a one-two pager in the next few weeks.
Shameless plug, follow here for updates if this sort of stuff interests you: https://hipspec.com/
Just curious if the OP wants this so he can build a product FROM this data, or if he just wants this data as a product, alone.
Why would a Fortune 500 give up such information, which is pretty much how they make money.
Also, if they did map out any tasks that could be automated, they would automate them themselves.
Good idea, but not a product.
That this is not only a market, but a "wish" which seems to get traction even here on HN confirms to me that the old joke "1984 is not a manual" is more relevant than ever, and scarily not only in regards to the usual suspects, corporate and nation states, but people themselves.
Can anyone explain to me why anyone would advocate a profit-driven, systematic eradication of soul and character around each and every human residence?
Why would you trade the vibrancy of your young urban block or the sense of trust and community in your suburb against prevention of low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs?
Why would you surrender your home, not only your safe haven in life but also your gateway to low effort exploration of your surroundings to wide-spanning AI surveillance and automated purge of any nuisance?
Maybe I am just weird or out of touch but I can absolutely not get in my head how people surrender to such a dull dystopia based on an apparent fetish for weaponized gossip and abnormal levels of fear of petty crimes...
> low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs?
I live in Seattle. Package theft is a white swan event here. Everyone I know has had packages stolen. Most people are forced to come up with some strategy to deal with it: get things shipped to work, use Amazon lockers, get a camera on your porch and make sure to bring the package inside as soon as it shows up, etc.
You are right that materially it is a low-impact event. However, psychologically it isn't. It sucks having shit stolen from in front of your own home. It immediately undermines that "sense of trust and community" you mention. My home no longer feels like a sanctuary, and random people ambling down my street no longer feel like friendly neighbors. Any of them could be a thief scoping out porches and the evidence is clear that at least some of them are.
It is a maddeningly disempowering feeling to know that I am unable to prevent someone from stealing shit from my own property. Worse, I know the police won't do a thing about it either. I literally have video of the dude grabbing shit off my porch, but can do nothing about it.
I think it is that feeling of helplnessness that leads people to buy security systems.
Why would the “soul” and “vibrancy” of a neighborhood die with some kind of digital neighborhood watch? Seems like a flawed premise.
There’s also something to be said about the hypocrisy of accusing others of having abnormal levels of fear of crimes that occur every day, while assuming that your neighbors installing a security camera on their porch will inevitably lead to a surveillance state dystopia on par with 1984.
The whole time I was reading that section all I heard was, "Let's move from individual neighbor racism tools to group chat!"
Not many packages get taken on my block, though they seem to on others. I'm not saying it's because of us, but I assume being outside and neighborly helps. It seems we've collectively lost that sense somehow.
While some users were interested in deterring crime, others just like to watch webcams. Sometimes weird and noteworthy stuff happens, though I found not nearly often enough. Also low-cost application specific cameras like wyze emerged that were easier to setup than old phones.
Anyhow, Petty crimes are currently very interesting to people to catch in this sort of age of online shaming. This is evidenced by the stolen package bomb videos.
Importantly, adding more surveillance does not mean you can go out now and not assume you're being recorded or that your actions in public might turn up on a social network. We passed this as an assumption years ago.
However, it is still possible to do terrible things in broad daylight and get away with it. We had, I believe two unsolved daytime pedestrian hit and runs in inner Portland in December! Hard to imagine but there is still relatively low or even no useful video coverage in some areas. And it isn't always a great thing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/e5kr7q/woman_and_...
For example: I considered writing an app that verified that a caller did indeed work for the company they claimed (have a facial recognition digest, send to company, get a thumb up/down, then discard the local data on thumb up).
There’s nothing to stop me from remembering the faces of people I’ve met; what’s creepy is that the machines know essentially everybody’s face. But the opposite can be true to: we could make machines that discard everything inessential. There’s just no customer demand for that yet.
People live their lives very differently from the universe you're talking about. They enforce things through trust networks. My friends and I have Find my Friends access to each other. That's right. If I wanted I could sit there and spy on one of them. But she knows I won't. I know I won't. That's how a sense of trust works.
Amazon tried to solve this by making your front door the package chute. And we laughed and laughed. Maybe there's something in between, but it's not as simple a solution as replacing the doorknob and lock.
Not everyone is so lucky, and I'd wager that many folks would be happy to "automatically purge nuisances" if all it costs them is some sidewalk privacy. I would certainly make that trade-off if I lived in a dodgier environment.
It's a big and a privileged assumption that the worse that happens in neighbours is "low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs" or that otherwise they resemble a "vibrant young urban block".
The more money you make, the more effort you spend cementing your position and systematically eradicating soul and character. See: Gated communities.
Do the locks on your door accomplish the same incredible feat?
Things like Ring, Nextdoor, and Facebook already exist. Nextdoor and Facebook are riddled with inanity, from political rants to dumb jokes to hoaxes to common scams to law enforcement rants.
I don't want more information from my neighbors -- 99% of it is garbage. I want highly-filtered information. Basically, a neighborhood watch but with an aggressive spam filter. Right now I glance at the various neighborhood feeds with one eye closed, sifting through the intense stupidity, trying to capture valuable intelligence.
Of course, all of this may be a dumb corporate-run idea and maybe people should really focus on forming good relationships with their neighbors in meatspace and talk to them in person aka HUMINT.
And it's not just Ring customers that are affected, it's anyone in the general vicinity. If your house is in the field of view of a neighbor's Ring camera, you're being surveilled too.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbel...
Defining what is a "reasonable government request" is a valid question, but it's really just not that high of a bar to get a records subpoena/search warrant for video like this. Courts sign off on those routinely, so I don't think you can really expect Ring or any company that holds your records to deny police requests for very long.
The system they have seems pretty balanced. The police look at the ring website to see who has cameras (they could figure that out by walking the neighborhood), they ask for the footage (instead of knocking on the door), they get turned down (or not), they get a warrant, the footage is released. Ring is reducing the overhead of asking somewhat, but they're not enabling mass surveillance or building AI systems that track suspicious people across multiple ring devices.
Is there something I'm missing here? If you record video of your front yard, and the police want to see it, they have a right to, subject to the normal judicial review.
The AI will flag the black person himself as often associated with complaints and posts tagged "danger". Thus barring him from job interviews and loans by other automated services (Uber, but for HR!) who bought the data set "to elevate user experience".
Creeping right back to apartheid, but I would say entirely worth it if it means I can get a notification that my cappuccino creamer was stolen 5 minutes ago by an unidentifiable person! /s
It confirms to me that cancelling was the right move for me but it also saddens me that we've gotten ourselves into a state in technology where the business model is to get people riled up and then profit from that discord.
But then how do we filter out the political rants, insanity, dumb jokes, hoaxes, and common scams?
Remember that garbage you mentioned. We don't want to deal with other people's garbage in meatspace any more than we do online.
AirTable has made huge inroads here. I'm also building something in this area (https://lightsheets.app/), turning slightly back towards spreadsheets instead of databases but then building enhancements and modern integrations on top. I think there's still lots of potential in this area, despite spreadsheets being 50 years old.
But it's not a great alternative to a DB. It's really expensive per seat (twice the cost of Google Apps and you only get one app). The row limits on tables are too low. And I'd really like native webhook support to ingest row updates.
I'd be very interested an Airtable clone that I can run locally on-top of Postgres or Mongo or something like that. My main use-case would be to replace expensive-to-build internal CRUD apps that really should just be spreadsheets but require bespoke integrations with other internal systems.
I've started working on a similar platform where the goal is to make building CRUD apps wildly simple. The plan going forward will be to layer on more sophistication after the core foundation is extremely solid.
The platform uses Mongo for the dynamic data tables which is a game changer for tools like this. Postgres jsonb data would also work, but Mongo just feels more natural to me.
I've named the platform Webase. Check it out here: https://www.webase.com
Note: this is very basic currently but consistently getting better!
What I'm working on though is more about taking the core of existing spreadsheets and building powerful integrations on top of it. Like in the sibling comments, building a webapp, or something else. I really think this has huge potential.
source: I made one myself (and know the founders of others)
4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch.
Ring is gross enough, thank you very much.
Friends I have who live there are thrilled with the system although the Seattle police seem to have little interest in the system telling the residents that they are only interested in seeing footage that shows suspicious activities or is directly related to a crime.
Porch pirates are so bad in my new neighborhood that I admit to wanting one of these on my dead-end culdesac and have investigated what it would take to build such a system myself.
2. Create a backend that queries each camera for their current image.
3. Run the images through some object recognition neural network (fastai has some great object recognition tutorials).
4. Make your backend stitch together the images from each camera to make a video of what was being recognized when objects of interest were detected (each camera will create its own video)
5. Create a nice little UI/App for everyone to view the movies with some filtering in place (time of day, object(s) of interest).
I want to create something like this as well. All of the pieces seem to be pretty straightforward to me except for figuring out power and network connectivity. I guess each neighbor would have to configure the device to use their SSID... and hope someone doesn't steal the raspberry pi and get the SSID credentials from memory... Maybe just make the neighbors use a separate network?
There seems to be four things on here: - an avon lady over agressively spamming her stuff (blocked) - people asking for small job recommendations (who should I get to fix my garden gate, babysitter, tv ariel fitting) - some notices about local events (when / where fireworks, Remembrence, carolling) - group commiseration that one time some group was speeding all over town at midnight running red lights and keeping us up with their skidding and revving.
Honestly pretty good. I see it maybe once a week.
Deleted that cesspool after confirming it was just another fear-inducer service for people who get off on that.
I have a Ring and some of it is just downright funny.
> "suspicious person on my porch, be on the look out!" >> "um, that's the mailman."
More often it's almost solely profit-driven.
I remember in the 1950s, there was a Popular Mechanics cover touting nuclear as a coming technology to power homes and even cars.
Imagine the next Tesla-like company offering to install a small nuclear reactor in houses. Like solar, you can sell electricity back to the grid, charge your electric car with it, literally use it to heat your water....
Also might be a very attractive option to going off-grid.
Even ultra cost efficient full scale powerplants are a money losing proposition without huge subsidies. They are being squeezed between extremely cheap renewables, low cost natural gas, and rapidly advancing storage technology.
Which is why nuclear was 17.6% of global electricity generation in the late 90’s but has fallen to 10% in 2019.
This is true and fully agreed. Home reactors are not really feasible or even a good idea.
>Even ultra cost efficient full scale powerplants are a money losing proposition without huge subsidies. They are being squeezed between extremely cheap renewables, low cost natural gas, and rapidly advancing storage technology.
Plants are expensive due to the regulation and insurance making them that way. Safety with nuclear is obviously paramount, but political and social pressure has expanded a lot of the requirements to quite a high degree. Additionally, renewable are also subsidized quite a lot and are not always viable in all locales. Storage tech is good for all forms of power generation.
>Which is why nuclear was 17.6% of global electricity generation in the late 90’s but has fallen to 10% in 2019.
Nuclear also has a lot of fearmongering and red tape around it. Plants are reaching their EOL and in many cases new ones are not being built due to the cost of getting through all the red tape (getting approval from the feds down to local government, dealing with inevitable NIMBY lawsuits, etc). Renewables are the future, but we aren't fully in the future yet.
The Small Modular Reactor hypothesis is that economies of mass production could conceptually be built that overpower economies of scale. The small reactors of the past, including the ML-1 truck-mounted military microreactor were 10x too expensive even for the military in remote areas. Just building a few small reactors is a losing proposition. If you can get them to "go viral" before they've achieved economic parity, then there's a chance. That will only happen if you successfully market their 24/7 very-low-carbon, very-low land, very-low raw material footprints.
I think for climage change purposes, we should focus on getting costs down on 500-1000 MWe plants. If it takes another round of small prototype non-LWR reactors to get there, then so be it. But large stations are what will displace most of the 84% of the world's energy that is fossil fueled.
Regarding the competition, low-cost fracked natural gas has been deadly to nuclear. I don't think most people realize that fracked natural gas, while great in the deadly air pollution department, is just as bad as coal in the climate change department (when you factor in the methane leaks from wells and pipelines). So if markets can price carbon emissions, natural gas can be ruled out. If not, natural gas will continue to drive nuclear plants to closure and then replace them.
Extremely cheap renewables are a friendly competition to nuclear in that if they're successful, the goals of the nuclear proponents are met: clean, plentiful, cheap energy 24/7. At the moment, the major issues of land use, raw material use, and intermittency are not causing much trouble for renewables. But as they scale up they may encounter more difficulties. All energy sources experience new troubles and regulations as they scale. Coal got scrubbers and filters (doubling+ capital costs), nuclear got the NRC, solar in California recently ran into NIMBY in San Bernardino county desert. Will that continue to get worse? Or are the positive attributes of renewables so good that people will continue to embrace at scale? I honestly don't know. I keep working on nuclear because it's a good high-density resource.
TL;DR: Include carbon-free as valuable in markets and nuclear would do great.
Today’s modern reactors are night and day compared to Chernobyl/Fukushima era reactors - they’re not even comparable. They’re fail-safe rather than fail-deadly, and are much more compact and efficient, with better controls and containment. The size of the reaction chamber is basically that of a household washing machine.
I’d gladly live next door to a modern plant.
I'm in the middle of writing an elaborate history of the quest for economical nuclear power to help with this discussion.
I don't know much about reactor design, but I don't think I'd live next door to a fail-safe plant, but please correct me if I'm misguided because.
I would be interested in a parliament-like protocol for discussion, structured debate and reaching consensus.
We currently have tools for proposing changes to text documents (such as pull requests) which could be applied to a community rules/laws or values system, but we don't have anything that can debate the changes, log objections, track resolutions and compromises in a structured way.
I've seen places where community decision making is emergent (e.g. autobans when a users reputation drops below a certain threshold or votekick in games) but nothing that formalises the process, allows review of results, links decisions to overarching principles (or notes where a principle has not been followed due to circumstances).
It would help guide people into arguing more fruitfully and better digesting what they read.
1. https://study.com/academy/lesson/parts-of-an-argument-claims... 2. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
Ultimately everyone should be able to agree on the data, the model and the evaluation separately. The differences should boil down to differences in personal assumptions (different Bayesian apriori distributions, eg. different morals, worldview, thresholds for things, etc.)
This should lead to questions about stuff that is either subjective and thus people can agree to disagree, or to simpler objective problems. (For example that data collection methodology leads to higher uncertainty than claimed, hence the whole argument becomes inconclusive.)
I've used their API to look at California wildfire data.
If there's a PurpleAir sensor near you, it will show you the reading instantly. It also updates the favicon so you can leave it open in the background and check the reading just by glancing at the tab.
p.s. thanks for that site. Works well with BitBar:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/sudo -u dzhiurgis -i bash -c 'echo -n "AQI "; curl -s https://www.purpleair.com/json\?key\=EAOGA5Q4JOPE8HH7\&show\=17325 | jq -r ".results[0].PM2_5Value"'We used to have this and it was called forum (phpbb and such). They have been oblitared and we moved to Facebook apparently leaving our brains behind.
In reality we are victims of armies of psychologists optimizing for engagement.
I have the feeling forums will come back though.
[Boundless](https://boundlesshq.com/) is a startup that is tackling this exact problem through automating the entire "employe(e/r) of record" process.
AMA! Here's a link to my soundcloud, we're hiring, thanks for coming to my TEDx talk.
We are hiring though.
I am frontend developer looking for a remote position
https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/i/mAQI/a10/cC0#11.37/40....
Check the values (eg BM2.5) around new years eve due to fireworks...
Copy/pasting from my landing what it means:
A personal journal and a social network that will provide a quiet space to reflect about yourself and also to nurture your long term relationships with the people that you care about.
Why “quiet”?
Because this social network won't have the frenetic rhythm of news and updates of all other social networks.
A quiet space is just as quiet as the quietest sound. Quid Sentio is being designed so you will only listen to your voice and the voice of your close ones. A digital space to cultivate conversations more meaningful than the loud noise of social media and more long-lasting than the unsearchable small talk of instant messengers.
Quid Sentio is for you if you want to...
Avoid the deafening rumble of the crowds. You will only see public entries from people that have both being included in your list and included you in their list. No stranges following you (or even knowing you have an account).
Avoid the tiresome grumble of the acquaintances. There will be no way to search for people on the site or to see a list of your friends' friends. Also, there will be a limit of people you can add to your list without reciprocity, so no way to spam everyone in your contact list.
Avoid the popularity contests of perfect lives. There will be no way to like entries, only conversations. Also, there will be no way to share content outside of the list of who posted. So no way to go viral and no instant rewards.
Avoid the manipulative tricks of addiction dealers. All the design decisions above already point to a social network with less activity. Adding to that, you won't see any advertising on the site, so there is no incentive to keep you aimless wandering around here. Stay as long as you need to connect with your family, your close friends, and yourself. Then leave.
Avoid the news, the memes, the FOMO. As the posts all follow the same design of journal entries, with no images and no special treatment for external links, you will probably won't see much news or click-baity articles, unless a close friend wants to comment on them. Also, no company accounts either.
If you are interested: https://www.quidsentio.com
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I am a 3-week vacation right now, away from my development laptop, but I will investigate this bug better and solve it once I'm back
This rule still holds true today. When I talk to people in their 20s and younger these days about Facebook, for instance, the near universal reaction is "Facebook is for old people and companies". They're all using something else.
Sadly investors probably care very little from a financial position as to whether a drug works or not, as their exit usually happens somewhere between trials at Phase 1 and Phase 2. Earlier in the longevity market because it is hot.
I've put together Request for Startup lists for the longevity industry for the past few years, based on fairly detailed insight into the state of the science.
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/02/request-for-star...
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2017/12/request-for-star...
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/12/request-for-star...
Because things move slowly in biotech, just about everything in these documents except for more senolytics is still valid.
As you are as familiar as few people are with the topic, I'd like to ask you for some advice, if possible: What do you think is the best way for someone like me (currently biochem undergrad, with ~7 years broad software engineering experience), to have an impact in the field?
(FWIW, I think that space colonization will only be practical if we develop either FTL or longevity (live to 1000+) and the latter seems way more doable than the former, eh?)
* Too new (There are promising upstarts, but they usually don't operate their own entities and it seems risky to route all our IP ownership assignments through a tiny company)
* Too expensive (massive markups on what should be a standardized service)
* Too incompetent (One PEO sent us a contract for a Canadian employee that assigned their IP in accordance with US law. It's facepalm-bad sometimes).
This is welcome the USA government because they know these companies help us achieve compliance better than we could on our own. JustWorks has been great, but only employs people in the USA. When we want to employ someone outside the USA, we therefore need to find a "global PEO." These companies are sometimes called "Employers of Record."
Popular Global PEOs are:
- Globalization Partners
- Elements Global
- Capital GES
- Pilot.co
- Lots more.
But it's a highly fragmented market and has been a pain to engage.
When dealing with companies that are above a certain size, it takes days or weeks to get to someone that can fix issues, but if you're lucky and you have a friend that knows someone who works there he can expedite your ticket. This service would work like that, a friend that puts you in touch with people hired at big corps.
I'm aware this service would have a number of potential issues, such as how to get employees on the platform without annoying their employers, or how to prevent abuse/bribes, but if somebody find a way..
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f154z/til_t...
Yea, I keep thinking of doing this but there's so much red tape in starting a defense company, it's seriously daunting. I'm a software developer in the defense industry, btw.
> ...be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model...
Actually, I think the time may finally be right for something like this in my industry.
As far as the rest goes I've wondered about as well. I'm part of a Discord that has no subreddit, yt or twitch channel is not a gaming community coming from some game or the like. It has a focus in that it's Eurocentric tho there's plenty of people on it from the US and the rest of the world but the only way it has survived for bout 2 years now is by being welcoming and a very broad catch all community with channels for cooking, politics, tech, memes, etc (https://euro-lounge.eu) I've encountered other ones that survived but they tend to be part of some big crosslinking groups and seem void of community feel with a shitload of people 99% of which don't say anything. Meanwhile more interest-centric communities just die if they don't have an area like a subreddit to pull people from. I've encountered numerous disappointing graveyards like that.
I thought Palantir was extremely software-driven. Could someone clear up what the above sentence means?
They're almost just a consultancy.
From that and my own short interview experience a few years ago, a lot of their revenue comes from bespoke ETL for clients into an on-prem software deployment and there's no concrete push to move to something more off-the-shelf.
Googled and couldn't figure it out. Hoping it's a reference to some good sci-fi I haven't read.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22request+for+startups%22&t=fpas&...
There are a lot of things that should exist but are harder to do: -Safe, cheap nuclear power -Longevity drugs (I am involved with two companies in that area) -Independent journalism school/foundation -Pioneer on steroids (how to identify and nurture the top global talent for every area of human endeavor) -Etc.
But that is perhaps another post / different topic.
There are a couple interesting gene therapy companies workout on hearing (akuous and decibel among others). Lots of ophthalmology gene therapy companies also, as well as more traditional companies. Hair regeneration has been a popular area of research for a while
Most companies work on biomarkers as part of the drug dev process. However building a business around just biomarkers is hard -- you need to develop your own drugs based on those biomarkers. Diagnostics is really tough bc reimbursement and pop health is tough bc incentive alignment is nearly impossible in many contexts
Gene therapy seems to be working a little bit in ex-vivo approaches (you take cells out, modify them, and put them back in, largely in the immune system) but progress elsewhere is very limited.
Yeah, I’ve heard about the protein buildup problem for twenty years now. Hopefully, someday...
Here’s an August 2000 article from the NYT that discusses the problem:
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/health/reading-glasses-as...
Well into the 21st Century, and I must say I’m a little disappointed. After that second DARPA Grand Challenge, I’d have said “no way we don’t have self-driving cars by 2020”
Humans in large swaths (most?) of the world live without stealing from one another.
Safe communities are not built on policing and monitoring (or guns), they're built by people who have basic communitarian values, basic education, who are conscientious, honest etc..
Obviously, macro issues are important (jobs, economy, credible judicial/civic systems) and that's part of the equation.
But none of this is new, it's downright ancient - and I'm wary to think of any technology that can be directly applicable. We have to raise our kids well, and there won't be any software to do that for us.
There are a lot of things that should exist but are harder to do: -Safe, cheap nuclear power -Longevity drugs (I am involved with two companies in that area) -Independent journalism school/foundation -Pioneer on steroids (how to identify and nurture the top global talent for every area of human endeavor) -Etc.
But that is perhaps another post / different topic?
What else would you add?
#10: a mouse is a mammal. perhaps author meant apes?
I love the idea of figuring out how we can stop reinventing the wheel. Too much of this work really has no benefit to society yet keeps getting done, over and over. I wish for a way to pull the brakes and re-evaluate what it is that we are all doing exactly, and for whose benefit.
One of the easiest ways to join is through a mastodon[1] instance. Alternatively, there are other[2] clients available.
I know many of these are similar to existing social networks, and thus might not be different enough to fit the criteria of the article. But the federated aspect of it-- seeing small pocket communities form-- adds something to it.
[1]: https://joinmastodon.org/ [2]: https://fediverse.party/
1) Dynamic relational databases. They wouldn't be too different from existing RDBMS, unlike the "noSql" products, yet allow dynamism. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s...
2) A GUI-friendly and desktop-friendly http-based markup standard for "productivity" and CRUD applications. HTML/DOM/CSS/JS keeps sucking for that, after 2 decades of trying. Focus a standard on GUI's and only GUI's so that it's done right for once. Java applets & Flash failed because they got feature-happy, making them buggy and security risks.
3) A hybrid file system and database to serve as intranet CMS's. One should be able to put documents into a folder and have the folder automatically be displayed in a "nice" listing or menu of links (to view or open documents), along with folder tree navigation features. Additional attributes could allow finer control, such as document synopsis, author name or ID (cross-reference), and thumbnails or icons. As things are now, one is pretty much forced to use either a file system or a CMS for many intranet-ish things. Merge the concepts.
This already exists, in the form of private group chats. I am part of a few GroupMe and Snapchat group chats that function similarly to how social networks "should".
I have an idea in this space- I'd like to implement a new webview or theme for Twitter that shows the most recent posts last, similar to how a DM functions. Once you scroll to the bottom of the list, you are done. No new content. Could alleviate some of the addictive features of the current methods.
I feel like too many people have gotten caught up in fringe science practices and "biohacking" the basic information that will keep us healthy and living long has been drowned out in the noise.
Noooooooo! sadface
Interestingly, this kind of mess probably keeps ~50% of us programmers employed. So ... yeh.
^ Notarization, at $25/each, would be sufficient. Bank account verification and credit card verification would not be sufficient, nor would "upload a photo of your ID". There's no sidestepping the "human being evaluates your actual identity documents" stage.
Lock it, alert a human at the company to review the situation and either open the door for them or call the police. Loop in the clerk if the network goes down.
Also, along these lines, created an AI doorman for a building, with a similar review process. Have the residents also help with reviews if the network is done.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200107003015/http://blog.eladg...
Dao software such as Aragon and Daostack may be the ones which make this real. A lot of the complexity in running distributed teams is connected to the sorry state of international payments. A vast majority of the potential employees is simply not able to participate to the global economy today.
The nanobots binding to a single-child, definitely... and the audio dictation from real actors, probably. There's not too much of a stretch between the rest and reality. Is there?
purpleair seems to do much of this.
Actually, I was thinking of building detection system for taking down protests. Currently, government has a need to identify muslims, illegal immigrants and violent college students. Looking at whatever video is there, it seems you can find them with 60-70% accuracy. For taking down protests, I figure something like automated human warnings or high intensity sound could work. It can generate list of people found and match them against existing database, give proximity of where they might live. Long term, you can track movements and other uniquely identifying data. All stored in cloud so for every camera you install, accuracy should improve.
I wonder if some kind long range radar would be able to detect protestors like activities.
For the attention economy, someone needs to build a prioritization system. Something that can jam all notifications and only allow higher priority ones to go through, scheduling, hiding things I probably don't care about.
example - taking care of unread emails by building a sorted list of them and removing junk based on how you interact with top ones.
> Digital neighborhood watch
Could be useful for various purposes like keeping away people on restraining orders with facial recognition, it should notify police with proof or observing fires, violence, and keeping away certain people you don't want near you.
Human sounding warnings will scare off a lot of low noisy actors.
Edit: Surveillance state = bad. I get it. I am against it too but are you not minority when most of your country doesn't care?
If there is a market need for a product, what do you use for determining whether it is correct or not. You can kill people with knives or ropes (more people killed than security cameras) but that doesn't make those two unethical or wrong to supply. You can defer to legality but that is not a good vector probably. Ethics are subjective and based more on intentions than other variables.
Just a genuine question, what if you are minority in a democratic state? Should you have power to impose your will on others despite whatever they voted for? If someone is harassing me, I can legally remove him. Harassing someone is wrong but what if protests turn into harassment or destruction of your private property, should you use legal system to stop protests? Should you think about the whole country of billion when making a decision that is against you in terms of favorability?
Is selling anything to state a crime now that they can use for violence or suppression of protestor? What makes detection systems so bad compared to other things people call 'ethical'?
No. There are no political champions for nuclear, and most environmentalists are actively hostile to it. And to be fair, starting reinvestment in nuclear infrastructure in light of how inexpensive natural gas is, would be expensive. Nuclear also doesn't play well with solar and wind, while natural gas is a perfect complement to renewables.
> Taaalk (originally launched in 2016)
A place for online publicly available conversations. For example:
i) How to play chess https://web.archive.org/web/20160427044603/http://taaalk.co/...
ii) Value Investing https://web.archive.org/web/20160427023909/http://taaalk.co/...
> Nerdverse.xyz
A url only social network (a bit like HN, but with more content and discussions with people you know - you're only allowed to talk after you have been introduced to, and accepted by, the owner of the group). All chats are publicly available to read, but you can only participate after an introduction.
Please signup to my beta list: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnuDIskbCAabMtGHQd...
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