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LeoPanthera
It's weird when people call the city "SFO". My first thought was, why is it in an airport?
taxman22
It must be a Canadian who wrote that
benatkin
It's optimal IMO. Anything shorter is too ambiguous, anything longer is longer than it needs to be.
free_rider
You think "SF" is ambiguous compared to SFO?
benatkin
Yes especially when you consider things that aren't places.

Science Fiction being a big one.

There's Santa Fe, CDMX though. You may have decided that Santa Fe, NM is too small, but you may not have considered that one.

People don't normally call that SF though - but they could. And that's why SF ought to have a more narrow use than SFO.

woodson
People refer to Portland as PDX a lot. Perhaps it’s a trend.
benatkin
PL. PO. I don't think either of those work :)
just_boost_it
If you travel at all for work, you find that some cities have a second airport miles outside the city, or there are lots of cities with two names. The airport codes for different cities then start to become synonyms for the cities because that's what you type when you're going there.

Other people have different reasons for doing things, everything is weird when you think about it, and when you think about it a little more you realize that means that nothing is weird, just different.

actually_a_dog
Well, I think it’s just as weird to refer to it as “the City,” as if there aren’t literally over 100 cities in the 9 Bay Area counties.
650REDHAIR
There are only two “the city” cities in America.

New York and SF.

If someone asks me where I’m from, anywhere between Santa Cruz and Sacramento, and I say “the city” they will know it’s SF.

throwaway1851
Especially weird since SFO is not in San Francisco.
benatkin
and the event is for the whole metro area and people who want to travel there, but closer to SFO than the other airports
echelon
"ATL" got lucky. I couldn't think of anything else to call our city in just three letters.

Plus our airport itself is huge. "Busiest airport in the world" (usually).

saurik
FWIW that was my second thought; my first thought was "wow that's super convenient!!!"... and then I was sorely disappointed :(.
CyberDildonics
"HuggingFace" might be the worst name I've ever heard of for an organization.
bigcat12345678
Cockroach was deemed worse by more people, but the company continues to succeed and haters dies off
barbazoo
MongoDB is the worst name in my opinion.
wsgeorge
The number of times the hugging face emoji shows up in their documentation makes it feel oddly wholesome.
samgtx
Wow I definitely thought it was named after the facehugger from Alien.
ProllyInfamous
Get used to it — it's the new GitHub [for LLM stuff, for now].
m_ke
That's because they started out as a chat bot for teens.

I wonder if they'll ever attempt to revive that product, backed by LLMs.

raldi
...but you have heard of it
s1mon
It makes me crazy too. It reminds my of Hugin[0], which is a library for panorama stitching of photos. Somehow it's too close to that in my brain and neither really makes sense or sounds good.

[0] https://hugin.sourceforge.io

thot_experiment
Can't wait. I'll be there showing off my frontend for exploring locally running LLMs (toolkit for managing prompts, branching conversations, and pre/post prompt programmatic mangling) gonna be a fun time.

(must say it's funny that with the advent of all these crazy tools i've been spending most of my time writing regex to marshall/interpret the somewhat irregular text streams into more useful formats, feels like i'm doing nothing at all interesting yet the output often feels magical)

sfmike
tartine and other restaurants at sfo are quite the draw!