[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Which important problem are you working on?
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Ask HN: Which important problem are you working on?
Important is subjective, what is important to you?
Author : manx
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-12-10 17:41 UTC (5 hours ago)
| lahirurlt wrote:
| Helping small teams make better decisions by reducing bias and
| encouraging critical exploration of the decision space
| julietdg wrote:
| Dealing w apple about finding Pegasus on my phone since 2016.
| They have ignored my request for help until now and technical
| support saying there is not much they can do about it.
| 0xJRS wrote:
| How did you find it on your phone and why not get a different
| phone
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| Why would you expect Apple to do anything about it? Isn't their
| answer to usually wipe and rebase anyhow?
| tinktank wrote:
| How to bring my blood pressure down. Statins don't seem to be
| working and the docs can't tell me why.
| jfim wrote:
| Working on machine learning infrastructure for self driving cars.
|
| In my opinion, self driving cars are going to be a significant
| improvement in quality of life for people who do not have access
| to transportation (eg. the young and elderly, and people who are
| not able to drive for various reasons) or may need goods and food
| delivered at a cheaper rate than what is currently available.
| rightiousrob wrote:
| As much as 6% of the labor force work in transportation[1]
| Automating those jobs away will be a step stone to the
| transformation of our relation to work as a society!
| [1]https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/de/web/products-eurostat-
| news/...
| womanx wrote:
| Abolish capatilism!
|
| Anarchist revolution by way of creators, or small groups of
| people, helping each other, i.e., federate with other communes in
| order to sustain, as earlier anarchists believed.
| romesmoke wrote:
| Dynamic storage allocation (DSA) from the fragmentation
| perspective.
|
| DSA is as important for programming as control flow statements.
| Yet we keep ignoring the fact that it is not understood--see
| Wilson et al's "DSA: A Survey and Critical Review" for one of the
| best problem statements of all time.
|
| Fragmentation is DSA's (and every Tetris player's) main enemy.
| Believe it or not, we haven't managed to converge on how to
| measure it yet.
|
| I am working on a tool that a) computes an approximately optimal
| fragmentation value per application and b) also computes
| fragmentation for arbitrary app/allocator pairs.
| axismundi wrote:
| Working on accurate extreme weather forecasts.
| kekeblom wrote:
| Working on making computer vision for robotics easier.
|
| I feel like the real reason we don't have robots doing all of our
| physical grunt work, is that it is just way too expensive to
| develop robots that do advanced and custom things. Currently only
| big players with deep pockets can consider developing software
| for a robot that automates a task that requires some level of
| fine grained control or visual feedback.
|
| The computer vision part is challenging as you need deep subject
| knowledge, you need to implement complicated algorithms and
| assemble huge datasets. We are working on a way to improve the
| efficiency of creating datasets, standard algorithm
| implementations and standardizing interfaces to make things as
| composable as possible.
|
| It ain't much, but it's a start. https://www.strayrobots.io
| fellowniusmonk wrote:
| Involuntary homelessness.
|
| Trying to create a notepad based "OS" ui that devs and grandmas
| can use together.
|
| Throwing events at my place and making free pizza for friends so
| we can keep community cohesion after our co-working space closed.
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| I'd like to hear more about this UI. Is it something that tuns
| on top of Linux or windows as a desktop environment or window
| manager? How do you interact with programs (all text based)?
|
| Assuming grandmas can use it, the paradigm will be easy to pick
| up fast? What's the syntax like if it's meant to be used
| widely? I'm always interested in learning about new computing
| UX paradigms, there are always ways to improve things!
| mikewarot wrote:
| My personal problem: Coping with long Covid. If I talk, or walk
| for more than a few minutes, it wipes me out for a few hours.
|
| The next year: Figuring out some form of employment compatible
| with the above, or navigating the bureaucracy to get disability.
|
| Long term: Convincing people that we need to implement capability
| based security. Until that point, we're going to keep losing
| liberties in the name of cybersecurity (theater), and nothing
| will actually get better. It's the only way to actually own your
| computer.
|
| Other: I want to find out if Bitgrid was a dumb or smart idea
| before I die, for real.
| verdagon wrote:
| I'm currently designing an "Automatic Rust", something high-level
| that will automatically implement the usual Rust patterns
| (generational indices, the occasional Vec or arena, and something
| I call a LifeCell), so we have fast and memory safe code with no
| run-time GC.
|
| Rust's biggest challenge (IMO) is that the borrow checker makes
| the code very brittle... many changes which _should_ be small end
| up causing widespread refactors. Not great for software
| engineering sometimes. Perhaps this approach will solve that.
|
| Nailing down the perfect balance of all the techniques is
| challenging, but it's fun and looking promising =)
| farresito wrote:
| I would be interested in hearing more about it. Is it a
| completely new language? Or a library that helps writing Rust?
| netizen-936824 wrote:
| Sounds to me like something to help write rust code. I would
| be interested as well, my rust projects have been pretty
| small but I do feel the pain of type changes causing major
| refactors to be needed
| enos_feedler wrote:
| Programming your phone from your phone
| intro-b wrote:
| Working on cancer treatment discovery. Hoping to pivot into
| technologies for early detection and screening.
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