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Booby traps are illegal if designed to cause bodily harm. It's not so cut-and-dry when it's something merely annoying, like a glitter bomb, though I would definitely not want to be the manufacturer trying to defend that in court.
We had to memorize the squares up to 21 in grade school.

The book is absolutely right though -- memorizing squares/cubes/2^n is a math superpower. It's extremely useful when solving textbook problems or when just exploring math on your own. I've seen the powers of 3 so often they've immediately become recognizable, 27,81,243, just as I'm sure most people immediately recognize 81 as a square when they see it -- it just "pops out" from the page.

This holds for simple identities too. Having things like x^2 - y^2 = (x+y)(x-y) immediately come to mind when you see just one half of the identity is ridiculously useful.
Please just bring back pre-Fenix Android Firefox together with performance improvements. There are still only a hand few of addons supported, lot's of bugs that remain unfixed. This is not the time for another redesign
In Texas they use restrooms at fast food places, gas stations, and Starbuckses like everyone else out on the town and in need of a pee. Failing that, the one in the local mall. Not having bathrooms available to the public is a problem of SF's own invention.
Fun Video about Conway (sadly passed) and game of life built within game of life
No, that was days ago. Definitely not "fresh" enough.
Voting, contributing to campaigns, some volunteering around prop times. Though I'll admit I haven't done much around the recall of our DA outside of donating. I should be doing more there.

I'm also active in my neighborhood in my own way, trying to get people together for events (think trivia, bar game tournaments, etc). Though of course this has limited during covid.

I think your comment is kinda rude, though. Even if all I was doing was voting, I think I'd still qualify to talk on the issues. Anything more is gatekeeping.
John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham who wrote "the book" on mass incarceration, has been at pains to point out that crime (and particularly violent crime) has risen uniformly, across the country, in both "red" areas and "blue", and the rise cannot be attributed to "progressive prosecutors", or really any particular policy intervention.
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Why do you need to proxy anything? If you're just collecting training data, seems easy to record the interaction with a browser extension?
I’ve lived next to golden gate park and the presidio for close to 5 years and they have never been anything but clean, beautiful and well maintained.

I have never seen any crime in my neighborhood first hand. I often walk at night to enjoy some fresh air and have never felt unsafe.

The city really changes greatly depending on where you are. So when I see the comments that blanket everything together as a giant failure it seems a bit unfair.

This is in contrast to other cities like Seattle where many parks are a mess and the streets haven’t been paved since 1925.

SF has many large problems, but it also still has immense natural beauty and glorious areas. All is not lost
> So where do homeless people go to the bathroom in Chicago and Texas?

San Francisco has, even by California standards, an unusual lack of an aggressive policy of pushing the homeless out of places where they are visible to economic elites. So, if you are reasonably well-off person, you are more likely to see all of the things that go along with homelessness in SF than elsewhere. (SF also devotes unusual resources to dealing with the impacts of homelessness, but the net result and the frustration it causes for economic elites that are usually the power that directs local politics shows why most cities prefer to spend resources hiding homelessness rather than dealing with it.)
My first CS teacher talked about what he called Bang Sort, which is also O(n):

1. For each entry in your list, cut a straw of length proportional to the value to be sorted

2. Take all your straws in a bundle

3. Bang them gently on a flat table

4. Draw out the straws in order of length, each operation of which can be done in O(1) time
Users: we hate it.

Metrics: few people click this

Managers: MAKE IT BIGGER

Dear Firefox Mangers: you make it hard to want to use your product. I used to love it. I only like it now. Really the only thing you've got going right now is that you're NOT Chrome.

Get good!!
I had to think about that for a second. It kinda makes sense and works. If you make SF an awful enough place, companies might finally start to consider leaving.
The people who are making the designs are not the same people who are fixing bugs and improve performance. If you replaced all UX designers with SWE you will gain development speed in the short term and end up with an outdated looking app after a few years.
Vim is weird. It is the pure opposite of user friendly design, and yet it has a huge userbase.
Terraform is—as a colleague described it—a combination very-sharp-knife and fully-loaded foot-seeking gun. Very powerful, but also requires a sufficient amount of respect and care.

e.g. You’ve defined a nice, fully-functional end-state, which was generated n time ago, but now you need to make a change to that state, so you run your

terraform plan

…and it wants to destroy your entire infrastructure and recreate it all from scratch just to e.g. add a new hostname to the certs generated by certmanager.

That may be okay, but you should probably measure at least 3 times before you cut.
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This is the standard format for Substack - how can you make that better?

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Any that would cause bodily harm, or be argued to cause it, definitely.

The fart spray and glitter bomb, would be interesting to see how it would be interpreted. I wouldn’t want to be the test case for it!
Netscape Navigator “one of the most memory hungry and resource eating program”
Forget it Jefferson, it’s Chinatown, er, San Francisco.
What I took from AO is no matter how far you run or hide if you startle a mob they will always get you.
Not so, it's just supervised data-driving:

Observation: The Pocket button is used very infrequently

Conclusion: To encourage more usage the Pocket button should be made larger
> SF has massive neighborhood diversity as far as living situations go. Yeah, the downtown and tourist areas suck.

The fact that you needed to say that says a lot. While describing most cities of the world, most third world country cities of the world, you would never even mention the word feces, much less defend its presence on the streets.
You don’t suppose this is passive resistance by the police to all the scrutiny they’ve been receiving? Start telling people that the system is all backed up and their hands are tied?
I've actually come to prefer this.

Pressing Cmd+C means I've "grabbed the file." Now I can decide what I want to do with it. I might want to just move it (cut/paste = opt+cmd+v), or I might want to copy it (copy/paste = cmd+v). But the fact is, I can change my mind mid-action.
Pretty cool, I would have love this in high school. My mathematics classes did nothing to nourish love for maths... luckily demoscene made teach myself a bunch..
Any ISP using Google's infrastructure will be avoided by users who care about their privacy.
The problem with looking at crime rate statistics is that they only tell you about reported crime levels. If everyone knows that a petty theft, or a mugging, or a minor assault isn't going to be investigated or prosecuted then people stop bothering to report it.

This is referred to as the "dark figure of crime" by sociologists (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_figure_of_crime) which sounds a bit like a description of Batman.
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I don't know why anyone would have a problem correctly identifying people engaged in class warfare for their own benefit. There's nothing tricky about naming people openly engaging in class warfare... except on the part of people who don't want their activities exposed to public scrutiny.
Walgreens has closed over 17 stores due to increased shoplifting. It is 400% higher than the national average in SF. It’s higher in SF because the repercussions are much lower because SFPD doesn’t even bother looking. Look at the reaction to the theft of the camera. The police said the DA need video evidence, eyewitnesses don’t matter anymore, even with a picture of the car. The criminals are free to commit crimes consequence-free.
It's baffling how short we are on the services we need in the richest state in the richest nation. LA county alone is anticipated to have over 100,000 homeless in the next few years. That's the population of Burbank. They aren't exactly sure how much over as they couldn't do the annual count this year, but COVID related job loss and expiring benefits should be of no help.
Do you have a source on the numbers?

I found a 2020 article stating that ~16000 mosques (65%) were destroyed, mostly since 2017 https://www.aspi.org.au/report/cultural-erasure
Yes and no.

We do often see a cyclical rise in the populations of rats, however a population increase of this size has never been recorded before. It is currently 400% of the size of the last record holder, and still growing.
As a foreigner, though a frequent watcher of American crime shows: what exactly is a misdemeanor, and why is it bad that stealing is one? What changed when it was reclassified?
I feel like a lot if it stems from people talking about petty crime like theft as some sort of "cycle". They get tricked into thinking that means you can break it by ignoring it. "Break the cycle, they will stop committing the crime!" With the only voter controlled lever being "don't prosecute crime".

It's like some sort of ridiculous over swing from "tough on crime" that relies on an infantilization of those they wish to "help". Like somehow someone who committed a crime and got punished couldn't know right from wrong, and punishing them for that just somehow reinforces that, and just simply... not punishing them for it helps?

It's such a narrow view that ignores the fact that real people own these stores, actual adults shop there, criminals know that they can just steal free shit without consequence, and all of those sorts of normal people just say "fuck it" and eventually move. Nobody will put up with being a constant victim as some sort of "aid" to the situation, including those that vote for it. The ones that vote for it just don't have enough exposure to the aspects of society they're forcing to take the punishment for this crap. They force others to suffer the punishment for it, in lieu of the criminals they actually _reward_ for doing it.

After decades of "tough on crime" policies, this kind of shit was on the retreat. It objectively helped everyone involved. Sadly I think the real cycle is in people who subscribe their religion against law enforcement eventually legalizing most sorts of victimization, and then leaving when the chickens come to roost. Moving elsewhere to vote in politicians with that same sort of virus like mentality, and leaving behind wastelands that by their logic need this "soft on crime" treatment more than anywhere.

It's like freaking independence day, except instead of "resources" that the alien nomads invade to harvest it's a proper functioning society.
> - I gave a beer to a homeless guy, and he chugged it & threw the can into the street. I asked him why he didn’t put it in the trash can right next to us, and he explained that he didn’t want the tiny Asian women who forage for recyclables to get stabbed by the needles in the trash cans, and that one of them would be along to get the can shortly. Sure enough, less than 5 minutes later, a woman pushing a shopping cart full of cans walked by, picked up the beer can, and continued on.

There's something unsettling about this story that I can't quite put my finger on.
Great, let's wait for these better understanding anti-maskers to self-educate themselves about infectious diseases to the level of our health officials and THEN we'll begin to implement important social controls during a global pandemic.
Apple doesn’t need to market iPhones. Sriracha sauce doesn’t run ads, they make a good sauce. They didn’t even have a website until 2014. Trader Joe’s doesn’t need to write blog posts to convince people to shop there. Everyone uses Figma because it’s great, so everyone recommends it.

When you use a great product, you tell others. Then they tell someone. And so on. Your product develops a reputation. “The taco stand down the street has killer tacos” or “People like me use products like this.”

If nobody wants to recommend your product to others, if nobody wants to rave about your services, then your product isn’t remarkable. Great products market themselves.
yeah, not seeing how a $950 threshold for felony theft is causing a problem for the theft of $6000 of photography equipment, and I think that sounds like a pretty common limit for most areas.

I think there is a definite element of the cops slow-walking enforcement to make a point and get a DA who they perceive as "having their back".
So? Russia had no legal reason to do so.

Not to mention this was a lesson to Pashinyan.

As for Yerevan - they were almost ready to throw him our of the office when they finally realised they have been lied about their military state and success.

Serves them right.
What subreddit was this?
I've tried the new design (using flags in about:config) and none of my plugins broke. I'm running Facebook Container, Midnight Lizard, No Thanks, a Medium extension and uBlock Origin.

Have you actually tried it yourself? If not, why post a rather shallow dismissal?
I'm not who you are asking but one thing to consider is you can't have a revolution without revolutionary conditions, or put more simply, revolutions don't generally happen when times are going good.
Perhaps it didn't quite fit in with the finger-clicking, hand-clapping soundtrack.
Booby traps are mostly illegal. The macro solution to widespread poverty and petty theft is not found in doing petty mean things to impoverished thieves, despite the fun youtube videos that result.
> Anecdotally

hmm...
This argument is a joke. Boudin is not pressing charges. The DA is entirely the problem here.
Ooops. I sometimes totally ignore all those notices, because of all the cookie and consent garbage. But I guess if one does a blog post using the language it probably is somewhat ready for distribution.
Yeah its tiring to see the negativity. Ill share my thought that's likely to attract some negative attention...

I think it's interesting this shows up a lot on tech discussion site. I see it here, I see similar sentiments on reddit too. Some of it I'm willing to bet is based in insecurity. Sf and the bay area is where a lot of the best work, hardest to get jobs are, prestigious companies exist and compensation is highest. There's people who are to scared to take the risk and move, or scared to see that they can't cut it and aren't as good or smart as they think they are. So they do things like convince them selves they don't want to be in SF, they repeat the ideas there's to much crime, its to liberal, the col is to high. Then shit post on the internet about it. We end up with these discussions not based in reality.
I don't understand the hate or why this seems to take so much headspace in so many (or at least here very vocal) minds. It's a single button, not flashy or animated or otherwise annoying. When the rest of the world spies on you or pushes crypto tokens and abuses websites by replacing their ads with own advertisements, that is what bothers you most and makes you consciously choose an outdated version?
Only 10% of users are using compact mode: Time to remove it.

Only 1% of users are using Pocket: Make it more prominent to increase usage.

Data-driven design!
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All I see are peaceful reparations. If you don't allow this, it's because you value property more than lives. Black Lives Matter more than some make-up.
SF has an abundance of shit, for sure, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as NYC. From my own experience, I concur that "in New York, trouble finds you."[0]

[0]https://youtu.be/agvzE91Xfek?t=77
Shouldn't this be part of gopls or something?
Bear bells are not effective in any way and in fact may attract curious bears. Bears do not know that the sound of a bell means humans. In fact, in Canada where grizzlies are a concern Parks officers recommend against bells. The best deterrent is your voice.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/parks-canada-officials-endorse-th...
time to post the graph again

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Why would you say that and not: the cops in San Francisco have an agenda, and that agenda is getting rid of Chesa. They have this agenda because he charged a few of them with crimes.

The cops are going around blaming Chesa for every problem, while simultainously having one of the worst clearance rates in the country.[1][2]

Also, organized crime might be responsible for the shoplifting, which wouldn't really fit the Chesa/Prop 47 narrative.[3]

>To prosecute, the district attorney has pursued aggregated charges for multiple petty theft incidents by the same person, such as a recent case of stolen scooters.

[1] - https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/This-is-how-the-pa...

[2] - https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/clea...

[3]- https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Out-of-co...
No, that's exactly how UX research works:

- Users are using X feature a lot. 1) the researcher likes the feature: let's invest time into improving it. Or 2) the researcher dislikes the feature: we need to remove it because it's adding too much friction

- Users are not using feature X a lot. 1) the researcher likes the feature: users aren't discovering this feature, we need to make it more prominent. 2) the researcher dislikes the feature: no-one is using this old, outdated feature, we need to remove it.

(I'm still upset that they removed FTP and RSS support.)
When you wrote "having a space for ads and then using behavioral ad targeting would be out", I understood it to mean that you did not want any space at all for ads and not just a lack of designated space for ads.

With that being said, the only way I see this happening is if the government builds its own ISP and /or IXP, secures its own peering agreements (with the understanding that another ISP can refuse), hosts the website on its own servers, and accepts all potential spam that comes from all of its users.

In addition, none of this will stop tracking by ads using tricks like the Facebook Pixel, obfuscated analytics, or fingerprinting scripts as code is also free speech. In fact, none of stops any tracking on server-side by government agents either. Any IP logs or information that's gleaned from user access of government services is understood to be self-incriminating and will be treated as such as in the case of a drug dealer in Massachusetts.[1]

All in all, who is expected to pay for all this (and on what grounds) and how do you intend to stop ads or any tracking at all with these factors involved?

[1]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/how-the-usps-tar...
There is VC money in NYC, Chicago, Boston, and Seattle, and I can work at Google or Facebook from most of those cities. I will never move to SF in the condition it is in, and I'm sure many other people feel the same. These opportunities exist elsewhere.
Yes, it's estimated to be 26.73% in 2019 [1].

[1] https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1400&fn[]=2...
I don't think it's the "pure" opposite. Notably, it's extremely stable and even all of the quirks which aren't fixed for reasons of compatibility are documented in its built-in help.

I think almost all modern products focus exclusively on growth: acquiring new users. That means that it's OK to break existing behaviors if it makes something easier for a newcomer. Vim does not have this attitude, so a newcomer has a steep learning curve, but an old-timer doesn't have to worry about his platform changing from under him.
I've often wondered how a loud hub would compare to bear bells in terms of alerting wildlife of your presence. I definitely prefer the sound of SRAM or Chris King hubs to bear bells.
Ok, so SF doesn't have the same amount of murder as the most rough and ugly ghettos in the Western World? That's good and true, but I'm not sure it helps make an argument.
I mean, here's one instance where gmail's uber sophisticated AI seems to have classified a seemingly legit email spam?

For a company that prides itself in customer service, I don't see any other way but to run their own email exchange (ala Amazon) because their private systems can then discern between email-ids of paying customers and spam, if nothing else.
That's a hard pass from me. I rather we didn't use Brave New World and 1984 as guides on how to build the future.
Please do not use bells, they are not an effective deterrent to bears and they annoy the hikers around you.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/parks-canada-officials-endorse-th...
The bathroom problem is because there is a ban on charging for toilets, nothing more, nothing less.

Most businesses would be happy to have another (minor) profit center, and most people would be happy to pay. There used to be lots available for a small fee. Instead, we get no public toilets at all because it is illegal to charge, and businesses decline to operate them at a loss. Your description is of the symptom, not the cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...
The short answer is that misdemeanors are crimes that aren't that bad (e.g., trespassing), and felonies are crimes that are really bad (e.g., kidnapping). Felonies carry stricter sentences than misdemeanors. By saying that stealing up to $950 worth of product per day is only a misdemeanor, a lot of the deterrent effect goes away.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the core aspect of browser functionality that everyone uses -- like loading websites, using tabs and windows, press the back/refresh button, saving bookmarks, and maaaybe toggling ad-blockers -- don't seem to require constant design changes.
> California already incarcerates 5x more people than any European country, and 10x more than the Nordics

Well, most European and Nordic countries don't have 13% of the population committing 52% of the violent crime. So this is kind of an unfair comparison.
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While I'm sure shoplifting is a concern, where I lived (around Market/Van Ness) there were 4 or 5 Walgreens stores within a 3 block radius. And several CVS, Safeway, Whole Foods and many other smaller independent ones on top of that. And I (and everyone I know) still ordered everything on Amazon. A couple of them have since closed, and it was long overdue IMO. Shoplifting or not there was no way they were all profitable.
Well, .. is not exactly a file, but it's not exactly an API either, right?
Isn’t our crime 5x more? The only way to get the same incarceration rate would be to imprison criminals 1/5th as much as Europeans do.