Just open sourced Society Speaks to encourage more nuanced discussion. If its of interest please do get involved. You can try the live version at https://societyspeaks.io/
hi, I made this. Yep I use Pol.is under the hood along with some other things. More to come. I'm happy to help. Looking at perhaps open-sourcing this. @gohandizo on twitter
SocietySpeaks (https://societyspeaks.io) combines opinion clustering algorithms with geographic context to facilitate better public discourse. Currently hosting discussions on healthcare, technology, climate, and social policy.
All Active Discussions:
Healthcare:
Flask/Python backend with PostgreSQL
Opinion clustering API integration
Location-aware discussion filtering
Tailwind CSS for responsive design
Replit infrastructure
Pol.is
Key features:
Real-time opinion cluster visualization
Geographic scope filtering (city/country/global)
Topic-based categorization
Cross-referencing between related discussions
Consensus highlighting across viewpoints
The platform integrates research from collective intelligence and deliberative democracy fields, with particular focus on how geographic context influences consensus-building.
Current technical focus:
Scaling clustering for larger datasets
Geographic verification without compromising privacy
Cross-topic relationship mapping
Automated moderation systems
Looking for feedback on how i can improve it and make it as useful as possible. Its currently just me and entirely bootstrapped.
potentially very dumb question but could you build hydro power solutions(from the ice melt/run off) that you then get clean power from / help cool ice...? So out of my depth here but genuinely curious. Also appreciate building a hydro power plant on a very unstable platform (ice) is problematic just curious of other solutions to generate hydro power...
Most of these ice sheets are already quite close to sea level and distributed across vast areas - like most of the coastline of Antarctica. Hydro power works best with significant altitude drops across very narrow choke-points.
Serious question: what things/science/technology should you work on that can impact this and compound positively over time (outside of just changing your own personal habits, but not to say you shouldn’t do this as well)?
As much as I am against Zoo's, they do a lot of conservation work, as do many museums. They have boards you can serve on to help guide investments. Saving the rain forest.
Engineer a disposable, insulating material that's actually biodegradable vs breaking down into microplastics to replace Styrofoam.
Similar to the above, for forks/knives/spoons/plates/bowls.
Support a healthy GMO movement that creates sustainable crops that use less acreage.
Shorten your commute, plant trees, don't mow your lawn, turn your computer off at night, potty train kids ASAP, drink water, cut back meat, carpool, don't burn anything.
Find ways to make the above easier for everyone and push for them. Acting locally will free up another motivated individual with better answers to act regionally, and that will trickle up. When the whole world is on fire, it's hard to focus on picking up that stray napkin. But if enough people pickup the coffee cups, we can focus on the next level up.
This is an issue of politics, not technology. Same with climate change.
It could become an issue of technology if we discover some breakthrough, but wishing for that to happen isn't enough. We need to make use of the tools we have available today. And it needs to be done via legal means, because individuals alone cannot fix The Tragedy of the Commons.
Exactly. Global emission due to power generation can be cut by a lot (and become insignificant in long term) if we (planet) start switching to nuclear power instead of demonizing it for political gains.
This has been mentioned on HN before and is a good place to start IMO - What can a technologist do about climate change? http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
serious question: what things should you work on that can have the greatest impact and compound positively (I.e go beyond changing just your personal habits)?
imo space tech. why? because we need space colonies and because there are currently nations which can’t wait for global warming to come soon enough (russia has a whole new income stream they plan, and starting to, exploit)
but hopefully coming down considerably. Watch this youtube vide of Tony Seba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b3ttqYDwF0 (Stanford University futurist Tony Seba spent the last decades studying technological disruptions. He argues that the Electric Vehicle, battery storage, and solar power, along with autonomous vehicles, are a perfect example of a 10x exponential process which will wipe )
Is there a way to get radio on your iPhone? Could you "jailbreak" it? I'm in the UK (EE is the carrier) and missed the Wimbledon final due to being on a train, it would have been great to have radio...
Reid Hoffman interviewed Marissa Mayer for his blitzscaling lectures at Stanford and she gives some insights into her mobile strategy and why she made these acquisitions. In short and paraphrasing massively Yahoo had a tiny team dedicated to mobile and she wanted to change this fast. Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS9mzbgI_qk
lol what do you mean tumblr isn't big on mobile.
78%. percent of Tumblr's audience that access it through a mobile device. Their whole site is tailored for mobile.
Since we're being snarky- perhaps read the articles you toss out? It specifically says that a major cause was the merging of their sales/marketing/ads teams and installing middle management (between Marissa and Karp) who knew little-to-nothing about Tumblr, much less how to run it. It's not like Yahoo bought them out to turn them away from mobile. Or even to help Yahoo become more mobilized. They wanted to monetize Tumblr and gain from it's younger audience.
