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weystrom··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
While I think that local LLMs are the future, i think these setups are insane. You shouldn't be trying to push the SOTA, most people underestimate how much you can get out of small LLMs.

Why ask FABLE 5000 to "summarize this email thread" when a tiny model can do the job?

Sure Codex3000 can oneshot your backlog, but why not use a subsidized subscription to do it for now? We're clearly not at the peak of these model's capabilities yet.

weystrom··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
I tried making one, but I couldn't make through the camera position tracking bit, software was super unintuitive. Very interested in gaming applications for this tech, but still waiting for it to be more approachable from a layman's point of view.
weystrom··on Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
Nice UI
weystrom··on 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
They use a gamescope[1] session to achieve this. You could potentially do the same on dekstop, but it's painful.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

weystrom··on 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
Yeah, but no. Proton is the best thing that happened to Linux gaming, but sometimes it's still not good enough to get full Windows-like experience.

HDR still doesn't work properly, there are no codecs (Atmos, DTS:X) for my surround system, latest nvidia driver broke Microsoft Flight Sim and other games on wayland. The list goes on.

And as for Copilot - I'm sure I'll be able to rip it out, just like the other crap MS forcefully pushes on people.

weystrom··on Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]
Yeah I guess the card companies will adapt somehow as well (in fact there's a follow-up video on how to discourage this technique [1]), but there's still a huge market for "vintage" cards and packs that will be affected.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeS6krtdwM

weystrom··on Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]
A CT technian has figured out a way to look inside a TCG booster pack and identify rare cards inside without opening it.

This potentially could change the whole collectable market, since you could fish for expensive rares and dump the "dud" packs back on the market.

weystrom··on We have lift-off Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready
https://github.com/element-hq/ess-starter-edition-core

They ship a k8s operator that deploys Synapse, will try that later. Supposedly it's free up to 200 users. But it seems like there's 0 documentation past the README.

weystrom··on GitHub was down
A reminder of how centralized and dependent the whole industry has become on GH, which is ironic, considering that git itself is designed to be decentralized.

Good opportunity to think about mirroring your repos somewhere else like Gitea or Gitlab.

weystrom··on Ask HN: What other good forums are out there?
Actually recognizing people posting is something that i dearly miss. Now you barely even notice the usernames.
weystrom··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
Because that wasn't the deal.

Nobody complained when YT was monopolizing online video because it was convenient and free and then they proceed to bait and switch us into paying.

Screw them, I won't pay out of principle.

weystrom··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
Because it wasn't the deal when they were consolidating the all online video content into themselves. And then once they've gotten "too big to fail", the greed rolled in.

They bait and switched us.

Youtube killed private video hosting. Reddit killed small thematic php-bb forums.

If people knew that they'd eventually do that, none of these platforms would be as big as they are today.

weystrom··on The Cloud Computer
Forget the numbers, just knowing that CEO is not fucking me over to build a second vacation home is Aspen would be enough for me.
weystrom··on The Cloud Computer
> Everyone at Oxide makes $201,227 USD, regardless of location.

Man I would love to work for a company like that. I don't know why more people don't set their startups like that.

weystrom··on TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe
Great video from Asianometry on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrkC-pMH_s
weystrom··on What your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far
Hate to be that guy, but did we?

Sure it looks different, but I'm still dragging windows on a virtual desktop.

You'd think there would be some innovation. For example I've always dreamed of a scrolling-timeline-like interaction with desktop, where your activities would scroll to the side when you switch to the new one and then you'd be able to "scrub back in time" to see what you were doing before.

weystrom··on DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
And yet if I post my CV as a "Linux Systems Administrator" I will get zero replies on LinkedIn. I wish this wasn't the case though.
weystrom··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
What we need is a resurgence of specialty forums, but there's no good modern forum engine around, at least I'm not aware of one.
weystrom··on Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/

Works on all platforms, but runs much better on Linux.

Running this in Docker on my 2080Ti, can barely fit 13B-4bit models into 11G of VRAM, but it works fine, produces around 10-15 tokens/second most of the time. It also has an API, that you can use with something like LangChain.

Supports multiple ways to run the models, purely with CUDA (I think AMD support is coming too) or on CPU with llama.cpp (also possible to offload part of the model to GPU VRAM, but the performance is still nowhere near CUDA).

Don't expect open-source models to perform as well as ChatGPT though, they're still pretty limited in comparison. Good place to get the models is TheBloke's page - https://huggingface.co/TheBloke. Tom converts popular LLM builds into multiple formats that you can use with textgen and he's a pillar of local LLM community.

I'm still learning how to fine-tune/train LoRAs, it's pretty finicky, but promising, I'd like to be able to feed personal data into the model and have it reliably answer questions.

In my opinion, these developments are way more exciting than whatever OpenAI is doing. No way I'm pushing my chatlogs into some corp datacenter, but running locally and storing checkpoints safely would achieve my end-goal of having it "impersonate" myself on the web.

weystrom··on Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
Cheers, I'm never donating ever again.
weystrom··on LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model
I'd love to hear what Facebook defines as "open" and "democratic".

I understand the unwillingness to attach your brand to whatever porn that inevitably comes out of making it available for everybody, but maybe don't use such big words then.

weystrom··on The legacy of fy_iceworld, Counter-Strike’s divisive, popular custom map (2020)
On the flip side, these days you can download UE or Unity for free and make your own game. Not even from scratch, just throw together a bunch of free assets and have at it.

And it's getting easier and easier, just search Steam for "meme-games". Game development is more democratized than it has ever been.

Look what happened to music production, how easy it is to start with all the free DAWs and cheap hardware. I believe game development is going down the same road, as tools are getting more approachable for newbies, we're going to see an even bigger explosion of indies.

Man I can't wait to retire in 30 years, the games are going to be sick.

weystrom··on Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google

  sudo tcpdump -i en0 -n -l dst host 8.8.8.8 $(for a in $(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/berthubert/googerteller/main/goog-prefixes.txt); do echo or dst net $a; done) | while read; do tput bel; done
Link to read the list (remember to read what you curl | bash): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/berthubert/googerteller/ma...
weystrom··on More content by people, for people in Search
I wish they'd just un-screw the page ranking algorithm. The quality of search has been steadily going down for quite a while now due to spam getting better and better at SEO.

I'm hopeful for this feature, but I'm not sure how scalable it can prove to be, to help manually rank pages for myriad of topics.

weystrom··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
Looks cool, hard to tell if worth considering there's no info on price.
weystrom··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
Yeah it fits perfectly.
weystrom··on Start Self Hosting
I self-host everything but my email.

Hosting email is just too much. Big providers just treat you as guilty of spam, unless proven otherwise. Just too many hoops to jump through.

weystrom··on Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR
As much as I'm a fan of Alex after watching his previous docs, I'm not buying into Facebook world, just to watch this.

Hoping someone would dump this on trackers somehow.

weystrom··on Open-Sourcing our Firmware
Oh that's actually great, ot's just I've been burned before by German retailers with "English International" on ISO keyboards.

I might go do some shopping then. Say hello to Linus btw, his video has done marvels to deservedly promote your product.

weystrom··on Open-Sourcing our Firmware
I wish they'd ship US ANSI keyboard in Europe, I would totally pick one up.
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