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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by aewens »

gpetukhov wrote: post #20

Healthy and delicious mass market food. At least in the US currently it's either healthy or delicious, while in Asia and Europe it can be both.

We do, but the problem is cost. It’s one of those “of these three attributes, pick two” between healthy, delicious, and cheap.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by corobo »

giantg2 wrote: post #39
corobo wrote: post #22

Eliminating "poor" as an adjective for humans. If we must commercialise it, more people with money = more customers.. Apple, Amazon, etc.. there's billions of potential iPhone and Alexa users out there long term if you set something up to help them now. What, you don't think you'll be around long enough?

This is an extremely complex topic that would likely require political and societal reforms. I'm curious why you are suprised there aren't more more people working on this?

We're on a site for a VC right? Big risks for massive rewards. The biggest risk is compassion. The reward a dedicated however many people you help as customers later. If an AppleHelps scheme set me on a path out of poverty I would never even think the word Android.

Companies are the only entities with the clout and long term justification to get those reforms started on.

e: version 1 of this comment was very snarky, sorry. I took your comment as quite dismissive and responded emotionally.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by karsinkk »

kethinov wrote: post #15

Building a shared runtime for Electron so that each Electron app no longer needs to bundle Node.js and Chromium. It would significantly improve the performance of a framework now used by countless apps. So far as I can tell, this has been on the back burner of the Electron team for many years. I'm surprised it's not a higher priority.

Earlier discussion on this Topic : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19083169

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by f6v »

uberman wrote: post #3

Bringing research findings from university studies forward into products/services.

I’d add that researchers should eventually try to commercialize their research. I understand that it’s not possible for all the fields, but I think too many life sciences PhD end up in e-commerce and finance.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by oxymoran »

UAP. There is clearly a phenomenon occurring that is completely unexplainable and well beyond our current understanding. We have countless credible witnesses and multi-witness events in our armed forces alone. I don’t purport to know what the phenomenon is or why it is happening, but it seems important on a variety of levels. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the population doesn’t seem to care.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by mindvirus »

Subvocal recognition (wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition) - it seems like it's a mostly solved problem in labs, but hasn't been commercialized. I feel like being able to do voice control silently would be a major paradigm shift in how we interact with computers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by aninteger »

sneak wrote: post #7

Browsers.

Well, people are working actively on Chrome and Firefox, and people are building new browsers on top of webkit often enough.

If you mean an alternative browser not based on the 3 major rendering engines, well that one is not really surprising given that you need a large team to concentrate on it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by mcshicks »

libertine wrote: post #13

Elderly care... in fact this pandemic showed precisely the opposite: our elders were neglected, converted into a statistic that dies more then young people. A complete lack of humanity in a lot of developed countries. This is the example we gave to the upcoming generations, we're fucked when it's our turn lol. I've been reflecting a lot on this, and thinking of ways to solve this, but it's not easy - it's bigger than…

My mother in law is 89 and lives alone in Japan. While it's not perfect it's amazing the difference between the system there vs the system in America. I think one of the problems with Elder care in the US is that it's hard to talk about Elder care while we are still arguing about universal health care. It's also hard to talk about how we could create a similar system in the US, because the basis for the system is adult children care for their parents, and mandatory long term care insurance provides coverage where that is not possible.
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