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This is infuriating to me. I manually manage my music library and have for years. I buy the iPhone with the most storage so I can keep my entire library with me locally. This used to work great, but has degraded over the last decade. Now when I drag new music to my phone in iTunes nothing happens for minutes, and then if I get lucky it finally starts transferring, but some times nothing happens at all and I have to retry.

Recently when I load new music onto my phone I find that random unrelated album art has been mangled or switched with other albums from other artists. And some music, which exists on my phone's hard drive, is now greyed out and when clicked says "This item is not currently available in your country or region." I am considering switching back to a iPod with an upgraded drive and giving up on keeping music on my phone completely.

There was a fantastic soundtrack created for this audiobook in the 90s by the industrial group Black Rain. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer

I have used Jco quite a bit (and contributed a few times) to build out simple utilities binding Rust code to JS [1][2]. I think it is great and the Component Model is the most exciting step towards real useful polyglot libraries I have seen in years. I wish it were better publicized, but I understand keeping things lowkey until it is more fleshed out (the async and stream support coming in Preview 3 are the real missing pieces for my usecases).

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-wasm-checksums [2] https://github.com/landonxjames/aws-sdk-wasi-example

Repeatedly calling the lawsuit baseless feels like it makes Open AI’s point a lot weaker. They obviously don’t like the suit, but I don’t think you can credibly argue that there aren’t tricky questions around the use of copyrighted materials in training data. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous.

Not sure about Neural DSP or reverbs in general, but real-time neural network based DSP seems very possible. The open source Neural amp modeler[1] would be a good place to start diving in.

[1] https://www.neuralampmodeler.com/the-code

I like rust-analyzer in VSCode, but I've found that it does seem to struggle with large projects that have multiple nested Cargo workspaces. IntelliJ with the Rust plugin has handled that (admittedly niche) case better so far. I still prefer VSCode though so I just open each workspace in an individual window and it works more or less as expected.

I believe 2014 is the model year of that Tesla, it seems like that particular crash was in 2018. https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/320/

According to the final tweet in that thread [0] it seems like they are pivoting to a sort of AI generated art based social media platform. I’m curious why they think this has the potential to be a “mass market changing” business since the social media world seems pretty over saturated already

[0] https://twitter.com/suhail/status/1591831193598963713

I recently saw a Twitter thread from last year where someone made a comic book with AI generated backgrounds. The characters were added in later, but it stuck with me as a very cool future use case

https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1467652391059214337

I saw a talk by an engineer from Parallel Systems [0] and they seem to be doing some very cool stuff for the future of rail. Autonomous Electric rail cars and some other interesting things

[0] https://moveparallel.com/

Came across this post [0] by Graydon Hoare (original author of Rust and member of the Swift team) in an HN comment the other day. Lots of interesting discussion about future paths for language design work, including some discussion of Effects Systems.

Curious how Tao is pushing the limits on that front?

[0] https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/253769.html

This issue was killing my battery, but I don't use bluetooth on this laptop at all, so going to Settings > Bluetooth and turning it off completely fixed the issue for me. Haven't seen a bluetoothd process in ~2 weeks now.

PartiQL[0] is an open source library that is a superset of SQL that I really like. It supports querying nested structures inside columns, so if a column contains some JSON data you can use the standard dot notation to query nested JSON data directly

[0] https://partiql.org/

This is a helpful reminder because upon reading the headline I immediately confused this company with the solar roof company Tesla acquired a few years ago.

I’m generally less worried about explicit interference like this (which mostly seems to eventually be found out) than I am about the more insidious and ingrained Propaganda Model [0] proposed by Chomsky and Herman in Manufacturing Consent. In their own words:

> Structural factors are those such as ownership and control, dependence on other major funding sources (notably, advertisers), and mutual interests and relationships between the media and those who make the news and have the power to define it and explain what it means. The propaganda model also incorporates other closely related factors such as the ability to complain about the media’s treatment of news (that is, produce “flak”), to provide “experts” to confirm the official slant on the news, and to fix the basic principles and ideologies that are taken for granted by media personnel and the elite, but are often resisted by the general population.1 In our view, the same underlying power sources that own the media and fund them as advertisers, that serve as primary definers of the news, and that produce flak and proper-thinking experts, also play a key role in fixing basic principles and the dominant ideologies. We believe that what journalists do, what they see as newsworthy, and what they take for granted as premises of their work are frequently well explained by the incentives, pressures, and constraints incorporated into such a structural analysis. These structural factors that dominate media operations are not allcontrolling and do not always produce simple and homogeneous results.

The media, despite all of its supposed diversity, is really just a dialogue between powerful entities, but it strictly avoids criticizing or even acknowledging the foundational principles of the structures that give it power.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

Benn Jordan (perhaps better know by his musical moniker The Flashbulb) put out a video today[0] about another scam in a somewhat similar vein, but this one perpetrated by a NYTimes reporter and specifically targeting musicians

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk872ERRVxA

Just finished the video and its pretty shocking how effective his scheme was. Music is already a confusing place when it comes to licensing and many musicians can't afford lawyers to look over every single thing. I feel bad for everyone who was scammed here

The term I have seen used in some more vitriolic corners of the internet is "carnist"

I believe that is provided by the Ion Schema Language https://amzn.github.io/ion-schema/docs/spec.html