Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta | Hacker News
…robotics take over farming, individually plucking each weed or weevil, and metering just the right amount of water for each individual plant, so that all the crops are organic. Most of the chemicals (yes, including nitrogen fertilizers) offset labor, so when the labor is free we shouldn’t need them. And people won’t have to spend […]
义乌企业家楼仲平：7天6晚，我在越南读到的经济信号 – 华尔街见闻
楼仲平详细复盘此次考察的细节，他最大的感受是，越南“不便宜”，单从制造业成本来讲，越南要比中国高10%-20%，虽然目前越南是一个投资洼地，但未来5年，这个洼地或将很快被填平。 Source: 义乌企业家楼仲平：7天6晚，我在越南读到的经济信号 – 华尔街见闻
The Mafia of Pharma Pricing | Hacker News
And that was pretty much it. The company processed prescriptions for pharmacies, then sold that data to drug companies, who in turn used that data to provide kickbacks to doctors for pushing their drugs over a competitor. And it was all legal, thanks to the lawyers and their select word usage. Oh, and I think […]
Michael Tsai – Blog – Catalyst (Not) at WWDC24
As far as I can tell, there were no Catalyst sessions this year. Apple hasn’t talked about it much since 2021. Source: Michael Tsai – Blog – Catalyst (Not) at WWDC24
From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts – imbue
This post focuses on one cluster that had 4,088 H100 GPUs spread across 511 computers, with eight GPUs to a computer. There were 511 computers with GPUs because some connections needed to be reserved for the Unified Fabric Manager nodes, which managed the InfiniBand network. On the 511 hosts with GPUs, each GPU was directly […]
The Transition to a Higher Cost of Capital
Today, even a modestly slowing economy keeps us in what is effectively an unsustainable boom, with lots of desire to spend while the labor market and industrial base are tight. This backdrop is unlikely to change much in the coming months. The Fed is likely to ease a bit given its easing bias, which may […]
全面10%关税、美元对黄金贬值、施压德日升值…..这是1971年的美国，之后全球市场大动荡 – 华尔街见闻
当前与1971年有着相似之处，美元估值高企且外资对美国资产持有量达历史最高，但市场因素并不像过去那样利于美元走软，统一的货币协议似乎也不太可能，但美国可能会继续推动其他国家采取措施重新平衡全球贸易。 Source: 全面10%关税、美元对黄金贬值、施压德日升值…..这是1971年的美国，之后全球市场大动荡 – 华尔街见闻
sbensu: We need visual programming. No, not like that.
Rich Hickey’s History of Clojure paper has some neat visualizations to understand how the Clojure codebase evolved over time. This is a burndown chart generated from the Hercules CLI: Source: sbensu: We need visual programming. No, not like that.
(2) Unreal Engine 5.5 Metahuman Skit – YouTube
Quote from comment section is awesome: Ok, a few tips: the basic visual detail is now pretty much perfect, leaving you with the ‘next job’ that you need to deal with as a director, which is the ‘human’ side. In close shots, this is all about one thing, ‘reactions’. Just ask yourself three simple […]
(2) We RECREATED the Nuclear Explosion from Oppenheimer with ZERO CGI – YouTube
Here’s how craetivity is more valuable than high budget and fade CG effects!