A retail level device capable of seeing inside one's body.
Interesting. I think the technology is not that expensive. But it was banned because uncontrolled x-ray dose is harmful to human body.
Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?
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#52Dating app that actually lead to dates. Preferably with people who are of interest to me and of who I am of interest to. Dating has been an issue my entire life - I’ve only ever managed to be in one relationship and that wasn’t until I was 26 (I’m 31 now). I’ve never even really had so much as a conversation on a dating app and I’ve used them for years!
It’s not like I do well in real life either - it’s ultimately that most dating apps just amplify what I already experience in real life. I’m not physically attractive (5’10”, 120-135lb) and so I have always had a very large uphill battle trying to combat traditional western beauty standards. But if someone could figure out an app that got me out on dates - I’d pay that $1000+.
Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?
#53A branch and bound solver framework that accurately measures the impact that one component/heuristic has on time to proof of global optimality and any time behaviour under the optimal portfolio of those components and builds portfolio solvers
What do you mean by accurate? Deep learning may helps for non-convex space? But it may be no solution for global optimality.
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#54A branch and bound solver framework that accurately measures the impact that one component/heuristic has on time to proof of global optimality and any time behaviour under the optimal portfolio of those components and builds portfolio solvers
What do you mean by accurate? Deep learning may helps for non-convex space? But it may be no solution for global optimality.
Well if i make the simplex iteration 20% faster what does do that performance and any terms performance of my mixed-integer linear programming solver one might implement in the framework. Due to parallelism and shared state the answer is non trivial. Let's say you want to people to cooperate in writing such a solver with payout proportional to speed up the solver got over a certain family of problems then accurate estimates how much contribution a new component has for the performance would be really helpful and would be an alternative having big companies bank roll closed source solver development.
Deep learning is uterly irrelevant for the famework but it is a heuristic that could be employed ...
Re: Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve?
#55A retail level device capable of seeing inside one's body.
Are you thinking more along the lines of an x-ray, or a colonoscopy camera?
I'm thinking anything non-invasive that could be good enough to reconstruct the internal structure. Ultrasounds for example. Of course the more accurate/high def the better.
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#56When my phone rings I want to know, with a high degree of confidence, who is calling me. The only way I can think to do this well is by giving everyone a different phone number, like many of us do with email addresses. Implementing this would require a way to create and vend phone numbers quickly, similar to creating a password with a password manager. There would need to be a way to associate each number with who I…
Question: what if you got a screening service where someone calls a # and we do multiple checks... For example: (1) if it's a blocked # or a # from a known blacklisted source -> straight to voicemail, and we notify you by text if a message was left (or we transcribe it) (2) new # you've never discussed -> you can set up the options here, e.g. if commercial or otherwise, go to VM or enable to "ring" for you (3) if the…
I hadn't considered human curation. Yes, that would work and I would use it, depending on the details.
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#57I have to get a bunch of data into prod.
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#58I'd like to not deal with recruiters and middlemen, at all (excluding the HR department of the actual company that is hiring). Just this week, I had a recruiter tell me that they won't tell me the end client, until after the interview happens. They are expecting candidates to interview with them, without telling them who they would be working for (also, pay is shit). Another recruiter sends a ridiculous legal documen…
Interesting. I think many people face the same problem and many people are trying new ways to solve it, but don't know why all failed.
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#59I'd like to not deal with recruiters and middlemen, at all (excluding the HR department of the actual company that is hiring). Just this week, I had a recruiter tell me that they won't tell me the end client, until after the interview happens. They are expecting candidates to interview with them, without telling them who they would be working for (also, pay is shit). Another recruiter sends a ridiculous legal documen…
Interesting. I think many people face the same problem and many people are trying new ways to solve it, but don't know why all failed.
The only way to solve it is to cut out the middlemen, that is unlikely to happen though. I tried it in a couple of places that I contracted at, but was quickly shot down. From an employer's perspective, it is very convenient for them to outsource everything except the actual interviewing, even if costs them more. They just don't want the hassle of looking through resumes, arranging interviews etc. It is understandable.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
That reads like a laundry list of problems that money alone can't solve. (I guess you left off education.)
Are you really implying money cannot solve poverty, because that's genuinely hilarious but I cannot imagine it to actually be true
Absolutely.
Money can only solve poverty when property rights are respected and enforced, when there is an open market of sorts to spend the money for useful stuff, when the bearer does not spend the money on useless stuff (lotteries, payments to cult leaders, etc), and when the bearer is not addicted (to substances, games, etc).
All the above are not problems money alone can solve.