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Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by kleer001 on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:05PM (#21356976)
I will continue to change myself to be the way I would like others to be. I will continue to behave in ways I would like to see repeated by others.

Bottom up change, it's the only thing that scale nicely and works sustainably in the long term.

Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by murm on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:33AM (#21355325)
Well, I don't know what the big Scenarios are, but I would be interested to know how humanity could keep on with the impressive technological progress and increases in productivity while simultaneously remaining true to our biological roots. That is, gathering together in urban metropolises (with all their advantages) while still integrating the best parts of our ancient environment: living in nature, forging deep relationships, meaningfully engaging in small communities etc.

Compared to what our living environment was for hundreds of thousands of years, it has changed so rapidly lately that I suspect that the human psyche has troubles keeping up. This results in unnecessary stress, anxiety, depression, feelings of meaninglessness, loneliness, drug abuse etc. "modern" problems.

Humans are very adaptable and I kind of enjoy living in a city, but I still wonder how much of the human experience we are missing because our biological blueprint was molded by thousands of years of natural selection in a totally different environment, and the modern experience just might fall short in some ways.

Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by karmakaze on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:40PM (#21365076)
1. Experimenting to see if a practically useful monad library can be made for a popular statically-typed language: Java[0] or TypeScript[1]

2. Always wanted a type-safe way to construct efficient SQL queries building bottom-up as in SQL rather than left-to-right as in ORMs[2].

3. A framework using (1) and (2) so building backends are not time-consuming or error-prone. Still in early stages.

[0] https://github.com/karmakaze/moja

[1] https://github.com/karmakaze/monadts

[2] https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql

Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by vithalreddy on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:26AM (#21375952)
Number 2 seems particularly useful for devs, As they are ones who suffer most of writing complex SQL queries using "ORM".
Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by karmakaze on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:50PM (#21383021)
I've come to realize that there are two camps here: those who appreciate SQL's structure and those who like the left-to-right ORM navigation of relations.

I do have to admit that it is awfully convenient to use a REPL to write a long chain query using an ORM. I do often run into limitations, and knowing that the solution in plain SQL is so simple is very annoying. The idea is to allow convenient composition, but following the structure of SQL rather than parent-children navigation so there aren't paint-yourself-in-a-corner cases.

Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by roschdal on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:29AM (#21354690)
Getting myself more money, so I will have access to a larger share of the limited resources on this planet.
Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by quickthrower2 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:47AM (#21362784)
Love the brutal honesty (or sarcasm?).
Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by vithalreddy on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:01AM (#21361821)
Which problem will solve to make more money?
Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by notelonmusk on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:34PM (#21358986)
Please tell us all about it in 100 years.
Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by ajeet_dhaliwal on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:31AM (#21354706)
May sound boring and small but it is a burning problem I'm solving today, we're adding SSO or single sign-on to Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) - long overdue and requested at this point by many teams. Hope to have it done by next week.

Not as grandiose and admirable as Space X and Neural Link but in a small way we do make the world a better place, we even have a promise, giving open source developers, small teams getting started, individuals and educators free SaaS to handle something that would otherwise be pain to do on their own anywhere near as well.

Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by quickthrower2 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:48AM (#21362787)
Ah SSO: the wheel we all get to reinvent. Good luck.
Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by Something1234 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:48PM (#21373854)
Took a look briefly at the product. How do you maintain traceability between the test cases, requirements and various issues?
Re:Ask HN: Which burning problem you'll solve today? by vithalreddy on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:44PM (#21356777)
sound's like a plan.