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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, attractive social services (compared to the rest of the US), etc etc. It's an apples to oranges comparison.

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 (compared to e.g. Berlin).

Moreover, Paris has several neighborhoods and suburbs that are very unsafe and most people avoid going there. One could say Tenderloin in SF has a similar reputation, but it's very small and easy to avoid.

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 opinions you disagree with, it's about keeping an open mind and engaging with opposing views. Demonizing Musk and downvoting any questions about this demonization is a sign of immature behavior.

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 were an active part of the LGBT community - SF is a buzzing option. They have various festivals and events almost daily.

Oakland music scene isn't particularly inspiring either. Definitely more independent music events in run down houses, but quality and inventiveness is too often of questionable value.

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 integration via the Safari extension works most of the time - but was broken for several months (required re-logging into Kagi when opening a new private tab after a delay). It looks like you fixed it just a couple of weeks ago, so I appreciate that.

I am raising this just so you are aware of this use case - always staying in private mode.

(The fact that iOS doesn't allow setting the default search provider in Safari to anything other than half a dozen of pre-selected partners is abysmal.)

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 their life to music.

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 to nothing about music outside of these genres. This goes so deep that some German techno DJs haven't even heard of Krautrock, the German scene that in many ways was a precursor of electronic music.

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 couple of dozen artists to show in that very coveted spot.

So what worked for me in the past is finding less popular artists and then checking their similar artists.

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 that to change any time soon.

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 the sake of promoting "friends of the company" (Jay-Z, Beyonce, etc).

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 very different challenges.

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 "frontend code" they mean fairly clean React code - that's just a small subset of what is actually needed for production.

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 even basic things using voice will never make sense.

I use Alexa daily to voice-control devices in my Hubitat. Once there is an easy to set up local voice control option I will remove Alexa. Unless they reposition themselves as something more useful.

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 I need. There are thousands of options for any product - so which one should Alexa pick? How can I tell what sliced bread I want it to order without seeing the available options and prices?..

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 ```

I know nothing about the product they are selling. As an engineer, I think writing a critical blog post after giving just a 1.5 day notice is bad behavior.

Your outrage sounds disingenuous. 1.5 days is definitely not a reasonable timeframe for a response to a partially resolved issue. What is 1.5 days in this context? Friday afternoon and Monday? Do you and their security engineers even live in the same time zone?