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Non-gun crime is a bigger concern in SF than gun-related violence.

San Francisco has nearly 8 times higher population density than Auckland. Add to that other factors like the size of the CA economy (wealth attracts crime), a lax criminal system, …

That's a really surprising example. Paris has nearly identical crime level to San Francisco. From personal experience, I did not feel particularly safe in Paris when visiting (comp…

The fact that you are getting downvoted for expressing a reasonable and well articulated opinion is an ironic confirmation of your point. Liberalism isn't about shutting down opini…

Depends on one's interests. It sounds like my preferences would be more in alignment with yours - music and art - and yes, SF is almost completely lacking that today. But if one we…

The new box can make API calls to Gemini!

I use only Kagi on all my devices. Thank you for building a phenomenal search engine. On iOS my Safari browser is always in private mode. I never use non-private tabs. Kagi integra…

German beat-oriented DJs haven't heard of one of the most influential German bands that had a critical impact on beat-oriented music? Just an odd thing for people who dedicated the…

My point is more about DJ specialization I guess. The vast majority of DJs I know personally still dig crates all the time - but they are techno/house/D&B/etc DJs, they know close …

I noticed that Spotify surfaces similar artists who are also of a similar popularity. So it's not like it doesn't understand that particular style, it just has to somehow pick a co…

IIRC Spotify has around 100K new tracks added daily.

In my experience literally anything beats that one friend who is a DJ. My friends - professional DJs in Berlin - haven't even heard of Can, to my absolute shock.

The primary advantage of Pandora's algorithm is the human-labelled Music Genome database. I haven't seen any other company do music discovery as well as Pandora, and don't expect t…

Spotify has song credits too, just FYI. In my experience, and the reason I left Tidal several years ago, is that they lean heavily into modern hip-hop, compromising relevancy for t…

Haha, exactly. I switched to local Llama 3 and never looked back.

Isn't Amazon Music included for free with Prime? It must be the biggest reason for its growth. I personally don't know anyone who pays for Amazon Music without Prime.

This has always been the case. Zero to one with a single developer or a very small team is the most exciting part of the lifecycle of a project. Medium to large size companies have…

Frankly, I am not even sure what "frontend code" means in this context. What stack? How is state managed? How is this code integrated into the larger production system? If by "fron…

I absolutely agree. They are not positioning Alexa correctly in the market. It's a tremendous opportunity to move towards a smarter integrated home and a personal assistant. Buying…

I love the idea but the only way I would ever use a product like that is if it's fully local and open source. No company is getting my "therapeutic conversations".

I think the issue of trust is a part of it, but not the most crippling when it comes to purchases. It's not that I don't trust Alexa is that I have no idea how to communicate what …

Amazon is surely working on an LLM competitor integrated into their ecosystem. Even using Llama 3.1 would suffice.

I can't come up with a single item that I would blind order. At most, I could ask Alexa to add an item to a shopping list and then verify the list and place the order myself.

I am getting 500 from https://roadway.report/v1/accidents_by_location_geojson and ``` ncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', " <!doctype "... is not valid JSON ```…