batmansmk (u/batmansmk)

batmansmk commented on Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss phys.org/news/2025-09-hol... · Posted by u/Wingy

crote · 3 months ago

On the other hand, it is only 33% - and that is an upper bound.

Getting data to literally the other side of the globe currently takes about 100 milliseconds. How many truly novel applications open up by that latency dropping to 66ms?

For short-distance stuff the latency is already low enough to be practically realtime. For long-distance stuff we're already fast enough for human-level applications (like video chat), but it's not dropping enough for computer-level applications (like synchronous database replication).

I'm sure some HFT traders are going to make an absolute fortune, but I doubt it'll have a huge impact for most other people.

batmansmk · 3 months ago

I made my master thesis on real-time, with a chapter where I experimented with different levels of jitter and latency. Jitter is the consistency of the latency, is it like a locked 66ms or sometimes does it go to 200ms. Jitter is more impactful than latency for a wide range of applications, from gaming to music and video call. Having a lower latency allows for lower jitter, or less jitter while keeping the same latency. Today’s discovery is huge imo.

batmansmk commented on Modern Node.js Patterns kashw1n.com/blog/nodejs-2... · Posted by u/eustoria

berkes · 4 months ago

I very much dislike such features in a runtime or app.

The "proper" place to solve this, is in the OS. Where it has been solved, including all the inevitable corner cases, already.

Why reinvent this wheel, adding complexity, bug-surface, maintenance burden and whatnot to your project? What problem dies it solve that hasn't been solved by other people?

batmansmk · 4 months ago

For years, I heard it's better to use cron, because the problem was already solved the right way(tm). My experience with cron has been about a dozen difficult fixes in production of cron not running / not with the right permission / errors lost without being logged / ... Changing / upgrading OSes became a problem. I since switched to a small node script with a basic scheduler in it, I had ZERO issues in 7 years. My devs happily add entries in the scheduler without bothering me. We even added consistency checks, asserts, scheduled one time execution tasks, ... and now multi server scheduling.

Deployments that need to configure OSes in a particular way are difficult (the existence of docker, kubernetes, snap are symptoms of this difficulty). It requires a high level of privilege to do so. Upgrades and rollbacks are challenging, if ever done. OSes sometimes don't provide solution when we go beyond one hardware.

If "npm start" can restrain the permissions to what it should be for the given version of the code, I will use it and I'll be happy.

batmansmk commented on François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCe... · Posted by u/sandslash

lostphilosopher · 5 months ago

We don't really have a true test that means "if we pass this test we have AGI" but we have a variety of tests (like ARC) that we believe any true AGI would be able to pass. It's a "necessary but not sufficient" situation. Also ties directly to the challenge in defining what AGI really means. You see a lot of discussions of "moving the goal posts" around AGI, but as I see it we've never had goal posts, we've just got a bunch of lines we'd expect to cross before reaching them.

batmansmk · 5 months ago

One of the very first slides of François’ presentation is about defining AGI. Do you have anything that opposes his synthesis of the two (50 years old) takes on this definition?

batmansmk commented on OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10 owasp.org/www-project-non... · Posted by u/raskelll

batmansmk · 10 months ago

Identities are very hard to manage and secure overall. Audits are super long, tedious.

Adding more dimensions into reviews that aren't properly done right now will be extremely tricky.

batmansmk commented on Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests rakhim.exotext.com/jupyte... · Posted by u/freetonik

batmansmk · a year ago

Maintaining e2e tests is a pain. Maintaining a notebook is a pain. It seems it was a given somebody would make this match made in heaven!

batmansmk commented on The Google Willow Thing scottaaronson.blog/?p=852... · Posted by u/Bootvis

LikeBeans · a year ago

In simple terms, if I understand quantum computing, and please correct me if I'm wrong, the big benefit is parallel computing at a massive scale whereas classical computing is serial in nature. If yes likely both method are useful. But a very useful use case for quantum computing is AI training to create the models. Currently consumes a lot of GPUs but QC has nice chance to impact such a use case. Did I get it right?

batmansmk · a year ago

Ahaha! Read the subtitle of the blog, literally at the top: "If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel."

batmansmk commented on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/redm

sneak · a year ago

While I don’t disagree with your argument, it is bad form to claim that companies like these don’t pay massive amounts of taxes, specifically payroll taxes. They do and it’s a huge amount.

batmansmk · a year ago

I' m European. Apple got charged by the European Union for $14.4 billions of unpaid taxes between 2019 and 2021. Back of the mapkin they employ 22k people in EU (data Apple), average salary $80k (Apple), taxes at 30% per employee (my own understanding). Thats $550M. So their payroll taxes is about 15% of their tax package. If you have any contradictory data, I would love it, but your point is moot for 95% of the world outside California.

batmansmk commented on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/redm

SpEd3Y · a year ago

Arguably out of the big 4 (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon) Google gave the most back to humanity: Android, Chromium, Kubernetes, Google Office suite, the Go programming language, Tensor Flow, Alpha Fold (and Google DeepMind), donating to Linux, etc. All these are things everyone has access to precisely because Google is such a big player and can afford to lose money on innovation that fails. What did Microsoft and Apple gave us? Yet Google gets targeted while Microsoft, Apple and Amazon are left alone. Why is that?

batmansmk · a year ago

None of them are good players for humanity. "Don't be evil" is long gone. They don't pay taxes, pollute, give means to manipulate billions of humans, concentrate wealth in a few hands. They all give with ulterior motives, never from the goodness of their heart.

batmansmk commented on Apple open-sources its Homomorphic Encryption library thestack.technology/apple... · Posted by u/unicornchan

batmansmk · a year ago

The idea behind Homomorphic lib is to allow 2 basic operations (such as add, multiply) on encrypted numbers. They return encrypted numbers as well. From those basic operations, we can build more complex functions. That's the gist of the magic.

batmansmk commented on Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync pglite.dev/... · Posted by u/samwillis

batmansmk · a year ago

Pretty awesome. Would love to use it in CI and locally for our PG product. We use Prisma, so I guess we have to wait for the connector that looks like pg to plug it in.