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Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

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Re: Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

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Remote worker stuff. I think with a little more tech, we can make a lot of people happier, having free time, living where they want, spend more time near family and commute less which would reduce emissions. This is short term and the impact could be enormous

Also, we need to standardize GDPR and cookie consent forms, so i can use a blocker for them , they are seriously messing my productivity

Re: Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

#32

It still seems insanely difficult to track calories and macros with all the apps out there to do it. Most of the content for searching for your food is "community generated" so if I try to add a "Big Mac" (example, not eating big macs...) then I get like 30 results all with different amounts of calories and nutrition amounts also with slightly different naming. Maybe this exists somewhere??? But if someone can make a…

We're working on something like that with Bitesnap. We added "builders" that let you customize the ingredients for common foods and for now we don't mix user submitted items across users. We plan on adding a way to cross verify user submitted data to keep the DB clean.

If you have any other ideas/requests I'd love to hear them. I can be reached at "michal at bite.ai"

Re: Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

#33
Integrating control in adaptive systems. We see a big trend where (parts of) systems can adapt their behaviour to particularities of the environment they are deployed in with the biggest technical driver being machine learning.

Controlling this adaptivity is usually done in an ad hoc fashion by writing code surrounding the adaptive component, usually a ml model

This yields many problems ranging from "artificial stupidity" to problems with safety and degraded power of users.

By integrating control into adaptive systems, we might get the best of both worlds: tell the program what (not) to do where you know this upfront and let it figure out how to act by itself elsewhere

Re: Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

#35

Short-haul and medium-haul and long-haul conventional take-off electric aircraft. There's a lot of work on VTOL electric aircraft and hybrid aircraft. There's a lot of capturing low-hanging fruit by trying to electrify existing airframes. On the higher end, there's a lot of work on enabling lithium-air or lithium-sulfur or solid state lithium or metal electrode lithium ion batteries. However, there's not a lot of wor…

Related to methane reduction from ruminants: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/gamechanging-pink-seaweed-re...

Re: Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

#37

So many — here are a few large scale problems I think about lately. * Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers. * fall out from monetary policy in the us and Europe: take your pick,…

> Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers.

SOS HN: Set up live early warning system for spoofed/deep fake news feeds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748195

Re: Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

#38

So many — here are a few large scale problems I think about lately. * Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers. * fall out from monetary policy in the us and Europe: take your pick,…

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I was just thinking the other day that we're in (or are at least entering) a slightly sad era as far as tech is concerned. Not too long ago (it feels, anyway) there was this explosion of possibilities when smartphones arrived on the scene. People were doing genuinely impressive and innovative things at a fair clip. That's kind of dried up now. The latest iterations of smartphones are just minor progressions on previo…

Otoh, smartphones dumbed down technology. Research in new interfaces got limited to touchscreens, and content got limited to whatever fits in a feed. I think smartphones took us back. We re still typing out thoughts through keyboards

Re: Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?

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I was just thinking the other day that we're in (or are at least entering) a slightly sad era as far as tech is concerned. Not too long ago (it feels, anyway) there was this explosion of possibilities when smartphones arrived on the scene. People were doing genuinely impressive and innovative things at a fair clip. That's kind of dried up now. The latest iterations of smartphones are just minor progressions on previo…

5G will probably bring in another wave of smartphone and IoT innovation. Imagine what can be done when sensors/cameras can transmit 10x the amount of data per second that they can now. I'm especially interested in how this might enable low-cost high-quality telemedicine.
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