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Ask HN: What new technology / software are you waiting for?
- cjbprime 7y agoWould be nice to do more in VR -- waiting for high enough res for programming and photorealistic avatars for video chat.
- K0SM0S 7y agoI would say (profitable) fusion power (other than the Sun's...), but that may be 20 or 2,000 or 2,000,000 years from now so... I'll go with mind-controlling machines. I know the US military is already quite advanced in that regard (trained pilots can control helicopters, jets too iirc), we've all seen the monkey using a third mechanical arm after a few minutes of training, there's this game with the ball in a magnetic field... mind-controlling stuff is going to be immensely powerful. And so swell. The human-machine interface (how fast we can transfer information into the machine, how fast we can intake what it outputs) is the weakest link in the chain. Improve that, and you massively improve our capabilities, our power to do "everything else". Imho. And it would be so cool to feel like Jedis or Q's hehe. And robotics, a "smart"-world IoT-enabled at every corner, and you get an idea of a totally surreal world for us.
- Jack000 7y agocurrent generation "VR" is pretty underwhelming imo - it's literally a 3d movie attached to your face, providing parallax but not depth of field. There are things like magic leap that have 2 focal planes, but I don't know how well they work in practice. I'm waiting for real light field displays to come to market, which should have a much more compelling experience. Maybe in 10 years...
- code_code 7y agoThis has me believing in nuclear energy again: .. www.moltexenergy.com .. Molten salt in tubes. Walk-away safe. Economics estimated cheaper than coal. Can burn existing wastes. Uses existing materials.
- ramtatatam 7y agoI'm waiting for feature-full postgres schema diff tool :) there are a few out there, some written in C (so difficult to contribute to) but none is feature-full.
- karmakaze 7y agoWhy is this hard? Can you just pg_dump the schema then diff? Seems like this isn't something you have to wait for, you can start making one in a language other than C (like Rust jk).
- ramtatatam 7y agoIt's very hard, merging schemas manually is painful and leads to errors. I'm writing this from experience.. Such tool is on my list since long ago, but unfortunately there is only 24 hours in the day :)
- karmakaze 7y agoI see--it's not so much the diff but applying that diff.
- ramtatatam 7y agoOh yes, writing patch is one thing, write migration is the next level.
- jolmg 7y agoSome years ago, I wrote a tool to merge databases. There were a few differences in schema that it handled through configuration, but the tool was mostly about changing primary and foreign keys as it transferred the data so the merges wouldn't clash. What's your use-case on "merging schemas"? Does it not merge data? Is it like you have a database with a table with columns "foo", and "bar", and then another database with a table with columns "bar", and "baz" and you want one of the database to end up with columns "foo", "bar", and "baz" without moving any of the actual data?
- karmakaze 7y agoActually good videoconferencing. This means low-latency and high-resolution so that you can see micro-expressions on the participants' faces in real-time not lag-time. This is more valuable than remote AR/VR.
- gradschool 7y agoa development tool chain to embed a Zig language application into an seL4 based unikernel image deployable interchangeably on AWS, Digital Ocean, etc. an Intel-supported multi-platform open source ME disabler an up-to-date untethered iOS jailbreak peer to peer encrypted DNS
- Blakestr 7y agoI will take one Neural Lace, please.