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kilnr··on Exllamav2: Inference library for running LLMs locally on consumer-class GPUs
I get about the same speed (35 tok/s) out of 13B Llama2 on a 4070 Ti, FWIW.
kilnr··on How to make YouTube less distracting
uBlock is great for this sort of stuff. I also use it to hide the Hot Network Questions on Stack Overflow. I often get distracted by those.
kilnr··on Command Line Programs for the Blind
Huh, I'd forgotten unclosed p-tags were a thing.
kilnr··on Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine
I wasn't aware you can see what others are watching. How does one do that?
kilnr··on ProctorU is dystopian spyware
But extrapolating from one HN commenter onto the entire zeitgeist is acceptable to you?
kilnr··on Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
I always read libreboot as "lib reboot".
kilnr··on PyWhat: Identify Anything
Another one sort of related is hachoir, and specifically the hachoir-metadata script: https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir
kilnr··on Netherlands must ban cryptocurrencies immediately: CPB head
>"Cryptocurrencies are essentially neither money nor a financial product, but an example of what Nobel laureate Robert Shiller calls a 'contagious narrative': a contagious story in which people believe because other people believe in it."

How is this different from money or the financial markets? Why do those continue to exist if not for the belief we collectively have in them? And why is that only a problem for bitcoin?

kilnr··on Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
Uh, yes? All of those. What do you do, hope a salesperson in a retail store doesn't rip you off?
kilnr··on Lepton – Firefox UI Fix
There's no visible teal/cyan anywhere for me. These are my Firefox Color settings: https://color.firefox.com/?theme=XQAAAAJAAQAAAAAAAABBqYhm849...

I've hidden the tab bar, though, so there will likely still be an accent there.

kilnr··on “AI promised to revolutionize radiology but so far its failing”
I don't know, the NSA has been capable of that level of mass surveillance for a long time before Amazon was.
kilnr··on DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
That argument starts to lose some of its power when DDG is recommending the extension specifically to block FLoC.
kilnr··on Yank: Yank Terminal Output to Clipboard
You could also use `xclip -selection clipboard` if you wanted it to end up in your clipboard (so you can use ctrl-v to paste) instead of in your primary selection (the one where highlighting text copies and middle click pastes).
kilnr··on Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
Love the joke, but to me it points to something else than gratuitous state variables. I think of it as "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail", with the hammer being "procedurally solving problems".
kilnr··on Zoom improvements requested by music schools
How does this impact large orchestras? Some of these musicians have got to be (way) over 10 m apart. Even 10 m at the speed of sound is almost 30 ms.
kilnr··on Tether price manipulation
I assume you've conflated evidence and proof?
kilnr··on Google Alternatives
This is my intuition as well. As soon as the query gets too specific, I'll just tack on a "!g".
kilnr··on Music Grid
I think at least in my case, that sense of progression is definitely a big reason why my own "compositions" sound pretty good.

This is my crowning achievement: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#2050-8-256-128-2112-32-72-36-20...