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New comment by ryanthemadone in "Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)"

ryanthemadone — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:10:10 +0000

Paxos isn't a DLT, it's a consensus algorithm — granted, DLTs tend to require a consensus algorithm, but they're not the same things.

As for Hedera Hashgraph being the trust layer of the internet, we tend to build the internet through the IETF and standards setting. Unfortunately HH is an endeavour from a private company so isn't especially likely to be taken on in that context.

I'd also wonder what you mean by the trust layer of the internet, what are the use cases that you'd like to see solved with such a trust layer?

New comment by ryanthemadone in "Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus (2014)"

ryanthemadone — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:04:31 +0000

Proof of work is a leader election algorithm!

OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

ryanthemadone — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:57:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/22/sam-altmans-ouster-at-openai-precipitated-by-letter-to-board-about-ai-breakthrough-sources-tell-reuters.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38398644

Points: 1

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New comment by ryanthemadone in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

ryanthemadone — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:45:45 +0000

Oh these are nice and punchy in length, excellent for a thought for the day!

New comment by ryanthemadone in "Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers"

ryanthemadone — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:31:24 +0000

This flying lady doctor had lots to say on this

https://twitter.com/LadyDoctorSays/status/167170098942929715...

ChatGPT Creator and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman Testifies in US Senate

ryanthemadone — Tue, 16 May 2023 15:58:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65610337

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963673

Points: 4

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On Ashton Kutcher and Secure Multi-Party Computation

ryanthemadone — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:23:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2023/05/11/on-ashton-kutcher-and-secure-multi-party-computation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35922602

Points: 1

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Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics – With Stephen Wolfram [video]

ryanthemadone — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 17:09:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoDZKlcdPNM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27485829

Points: 3

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New comment by ryanthemadone in "Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?"

ryanthemadone — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:01:48 +0000

I naïve reading of your solution implies that the poor wouldn't be able to put up such a bond and would therefore be excluded from this techno utopia - where the rich would be able to create Sybil's and game systems all day long.

New comment by ryanthemadone in "Netflix CEO may have missed the real reason why US subscriber numbers plunged"

ryanthemadone — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 22:44:32 +0000

Trying to find something to watch on Netflix is definitely a chore, having stuff autoplay isn't facilitating that search - the feature often 'gets in the way' painfully and makes me mute my TV.

I don't have a regular TV service anymore, but I suspect it's quite easy to flip it on, jump to the guide (which probably isn't blaring loud stuff at you) and scan the currently airing shows for something you're familiar with and you like.

So no contradiction as far as I can tell.

My Netflix experience is one where I often have 2-3 shows that I'm currently watching. I want those shows front and center when I log in, perhaps with recommendations for similar shows alongside. It would be even cooler if two shows I was watching had recommendations that crossed over both of them. I should also be able to "close" a series I've started watching, but decided I don't want to watch anymore.

When I don't have active shows that I'm watching I kind of want Netflix to help me find stuff based on my viewing history, right now I have IMDb and other apps open on my phone so that I can check community scores and reviews of content I don't know about, whatever dumb business strategy decision prohibited that data being in the Netflix app should be rescinded immediately. Heck I should be able to pull up all sci-fi, filter for stuff I haven't seen, filter for TV series, movie or whatever, order by rotten tomatoes score and then filter for stuff that isn't space based or something. You get the gist, there's so much Netflix could be doing to enable discoverability.