Why do you say that? This guy clearly finds meaning and significance in what he does.

I don't understand how you've read the comments on this page and still think that people that don't like ai are fictitious

The internet dislikes a lot of things. It's meaningless.

A substack post is not anger, an HN comment is not breaking machines.

In IT specifically, people who dislike AI are simply not revolting. They're retiring or taking sabbaticals. They're not breaking machinery, they're waiting for the thing to crash and burn on its own.

That's a no true Scotsman mixed with a strawman.

Anger is a lot of things besides intentional sabotage and insurrection

Do you believe people actually hate fidget spinners, or it was just internet talk?

Show me manifestations of anger towards AI that actually happened outside of the internet. Some massive strike, some protest, something meaningful.

Is Paul McCartney an IT worker?

No but it's anger that happened outside of the internet.

Fair enough. I should have been more specific.

You do understand that the Luddite movement was a low class, mass worker movement, don't you?

It seems out of place to mention a big name artist as a Luddite, as if you don't understand what the word implies.

Pesticides aren't used to kill weeds.

Herbicides are useful, they certainly help prevent invasive weed species from taking over native plants and grasses. I'm Kentucky I'm always fighting Johnson grass, thistle and Japanese knotweed in my bluegrass

Pesticide is a catch-all term that encompasses herbicides, insecticides, fungicides etc.

No, it isn't. Pesticide are used to kill pests, such as insects in the case of insecticide or rodents. It does not include fungicides nor herbicides

> Pesticide are used to kill pests, such as insects in the case of insecticide or rodents. It does not include fungicides nor herbicides

Wrong.

See, e.g., https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-pesticides/pe...

“Pesticides are used in agriculture to protect crops from insects, fungi, weeds, and other pests.”

The big bang did. And following it, supernovae. But there's a lot we don't know and science is always advancing!

For example, JWST observed early galaxies are both larger and more diverse materials than we expected. Means there's something new to learn!

Micron has said they're not scaling up production. Presumably they're afraid of being left holding the bag when the bubble does pop

Not just Micron, SK Hynix has made similar statements (unfortunately I can only find sources in Korean).

DRAM manufacturers got burned multiple times in the past scaling up production during a price bubble, and it appears they've learned their lesson (to the detriment of the rest of us).

Why are they building a foundry in Idaho?

https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/id

I mean it says on the page

>help ensure U.S. leadership in memory development and manufacturing, underpinning a national supply chain and R&D ecosystem.

It's more political than supply based

Future demand aka DDR6.

The 2027 timeline for the fab is when DDR6 is due to hit market.

Hedging is understandable. But what I don't understand is why they didn't hedge by keeping Crucial around but more dormant (higher prices, less SKUs, etc)

The theory I've heard is built on the fact that China (CXMT) is starting to properly get into DRAM manufacturing - Micron might expect that to swamp the low end of the market, leaving Crucial unprofitable regardless, so they might as well throw in the towel now and make as much money as possible from AI/datacenter (which has bigger margins) while they can.

But yeah even if that's true I don't know why they wouldn't hedge their bets a bit.

So position Crucial as a premium brand, raise prices 4x instead of 3x, and drastically cut down on the SKUs to reduce overhead. If they tried that and kept spiraling into fewer and fewer SKUs and sales, I could understand it. But the discontinuation felt pretty abrupt.

By volume the vast majority of code on github is students. Think about that when you average github for ai

> By volume the vast majority of code on github is students.

Who determined this? How?

But if I'm a pharma lab, I don't want to rely on a statistical engine that makes mistakes to answer those questions, I want to query a database that is deterministic.

Sam Altman says that he thinks scientific research is a huge opportunity for AI to contribute as it more fully develops and I think he’s right.

Since I’m not a scientific researcher, I have no idea if he’s just blowing smoke but I think it’s reasonable to think of a purpose-built system which has an LLM component being used by a team to do something useful.

This. LLM is NOT the tool for a pharma lab - properly trained ML is the right tool. Heck, English is probably not even the right LANGUAGE to use for discussing chemical interactions.

Would the proper language be math, or another human language?

I could see things like "nitrate" and "nitrite" possibly being a stumbling block for an LLM.

On top of buggy software they just have user hostile design choices. Like forcing agreements to sell health data if you want a step counter, or shoving ads in your face that you can't disable without hamstringing functionality.

Makes me think about switching if alternative markets really do come to iOS and they get a real firefox

Ha! That's a right of passage, lithium ion batteries state of charge drops to almost 0 when it's below freezing. If you left your phone out with your laptop it'd have the same problem. There's actually special phones you can get that are meant to keep functioning below freezing, usually by means of a battery heater.

I too have done the same thing you experienced.

Now I run everything off of a minipc with a lead acid UPS.

This is also why most of your power packs to run astronomy gear are still lead acid and not lithium. Celestron's not just trying to sell you last generation equipment at a steep mark up, there's a reason for it

Even if that's the case, I doubt usage rates are very high.