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ashwinneon Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

I would love a old-school search engine that pulls results purely from a well curated list of websites and blogs.

ashwinneon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://codeyarns.com/

ashwinneon Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide

How can consumers avoid/reduce risk of ingesting this from the produce we buy at the store?

ashwinneon Creator of SIMT/CUDA on his engineering journey at SGI/Nvidia

Journey from SGI, the first GPU, programmable shaders, unified shaders, CUDA at NVIDIA.

ashwinneon Books I Loved Reading in 2024

Set aside 30 minutes a day and try to keep at it regularly. If there are kids and being a good parent, this is only possible after their bed/story time. Quickly turns into a no-screen meditative quiet time for the mind before going to sleep.

Put the book(s) on the bedside table so that it is right there staring at you.

If a book isn't interesting even after first 50 pages, dump and move on to a new one. Borrow books from library so that there is a forcing function of the due date.

30 mins a day is plenty to get through 10-20 books a year easily. Read only easy/fun/interesting books until the stamina to get into tougher reads arrives.

ashwinneon Nobody knows what's going on

This is true! A general journalist who has studied up a domain and written an article within a week cannot stand up to this kind of deep questioning.

ashwinneon Nobody knows what's going on

Typically someone who has spent their life working/researching/teaching in that sliver of a domain. It is also important to remember that experts start losing their expertise once they have retired or no longer actively working in that domain.

So you are looking for someone with many years of work experience in being an IC or lead or CEO or a researcher with a lab or PhD in that domain with lots of papers in highly respected/ranked conferences/journals. In domains you have no idea about, you might need to first read a book or general article which links back to such experts/sources and then it is easy to find the cluster of those experts in that domain.

ashwinneon Nobody knows what's going on

That is right. Listen to multiple experts and see what is the cluster/mean of an answer they are crystallizing around. And if they all have different answers, then it means that there is no clear answer for your question (yet).

ashwinneon Nobody knows what's going on

There’s a way around this, but it’s not fun or easy. It’s to listen to only the experts on that tiny sliver of a domain in which they are experts in. (And don’t listen to that expert when they talk about something that’s not their expertise .) This means listening to the expert on caves and not to the social media loving billionaire.

ashwinneon Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]

I'd assume it is an office copier that can produce lots of copies of scripts, receipts, invoices, signs for the sets etc. they might need all through the day. And by renting, if it breaks down they get an immediate replacement from the rental company (at zero cost) I guess. So don't need to worry about repair downtime.

ashwinneon Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

https://lwn.net/

ashwinneon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://codeyarns.com/tech/

2500+ posts from almost 20 years on the web.

Essentially a place to take notes: on the digital devices I use and tips of the software I use. The main idea is to have a place I can refer to when I want some programming/software/hardware detail a second time, instead of returning to Google search again. I've found it easier to have my own notes (once I find the info I need) since other sources of info online can disappear over time or disappear from search results.

ashwinneon Nvidia Computex 2023 Keynote with Nvidia DGX GH200 MGX and Spectrum 4

Keynote video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSWzSRnGEFo

ashwinneon Casio-F-91W die-shot

Last year I switched to the GWM5610 after a long search. It perfectly fit my needs - accurate all the time (syncs to atomic clock radio signals), never needs a charge (solar powered) and is indestructible. What more could a nerd want!

ashwinneon Casio-F-91W die-shot

I was surprised by this inaccuracy too. But was impressed when I learnt that there is no analog wristwatch that can match this accuracy - they are all far far worse. (Isn't it shocking that all those super-expensive Rolexes and whatnot are all going off by minutes per month!) Get one of the Casio watches that syncs to atomic clock radio signals every night - it will be second-accurate all the time.

ashwinneon Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?

Kept them as blog posts: https://codeyarns.com/tech/index.html#cheatsheet

ashwinneon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://codeyarns.github.io/tech/ -- interesting C/C++/Python standards/compilers/arcane details, CUDA and GPU programming, computer architecture, software/gadgets for programmer's daily workflow (Vim, shell, Linux and such), tech/programming book reviews.

Blog has been active in some form or other since 2004. 2000+ blog posts and 9+ million views thanks to Google.

Follow me on Twitter for new blog posts: https://twitter.com/codeyarns

ashwinneon Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

Once your 2.5y old turns 3 or 4 you will understand what folks are talking about :-)

ashwinneon Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

+1 I use a combination of Linux tools all day to achieve this: ls, tree, ranger, ncdu. Thanks so much for writing a tool built primarily for directory exploration. This deserves to ship in Ubuntu ASAP :-)

#1 ask: please add a Vim mode for j/k navigation and / search.

ashwinneon Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

That's correct, you can transfer any trained model to the Nano and run it there using the NVIDIA TensorRT library/toolchain.

ashwinneon Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts

A more practical solution is to train your network on other beefy CPU/GPU/TPUs and convert+run that on the Nano using TensorRT. TensorRT supports import of models in Tensorflow (UFF) and ONNX formats.

ashwinneon Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up?

Golden comment!

ashwinneon Bus Drivers Working in Silicon Valley Struggle to Afford Rent

This seems to be just a fraction of a bigger TV piece by ABC called My Reality: A Hidden America.

Some other portions of it found on Youtube:

* Firefighter with 3 jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_8lgs9GCQ

* Fastfood worker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I28_9eAwEW4

* Stanford U worker who commutes 4 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3O4Xat1C0

I don't live in the US, but the situation in these videos looks pretty sad.

ashwinneon Visual Studio Code 1.5

I find relative number very useful to jump lines. Please consider showing current line number for current line. And go ahead with the pull request, many of us need this feature :)

ashwinneon Brain 'can classify words during sleep'

What a surprise! I wrote a short story last year about the exact same phenomenon: http://daariga.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-dream-worker/

Quite a shock to see it being found to be true as a research finding. Many of the details in the story matched so closely to the research methodology that I still cannot believe this is happening :-)

ashwinneon Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

Spendy looks like something I would love to use too. Where is it available?