I submitted this video because of the interesting software parallels we can take away from it, in a city known for very good infrastructure.

I’ve manually entered quotes from an old physical book into my readwise because they were so well written, so it’s possible to use physical books too!

On a related note, but different implementation (iframes), I recently learned that W3C does not believe infinite recursion should be a thing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14223628/why-does-a-self...

The shape of the code is just as impressive as the size!

> those who are members of the Airbnb community accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

When you are trusting someone to host you in their home, or trusting someone to stay in your home, it is important to have safety policies. For example, AirBnB's policies are related to fire safety, theft/vandalism, and fraud. This is simply one other policy to make both guests and hosts feel safe using the platform.

- https://www.airbnb.ca/standards

Scrabble is great for vocabulary, although as you get better you'll learn strategic words and probably disregard their meaning (for example, I frequently use qi, qat, suq, qua but I can't define them)

House rules: if you don't know what a word means you can't use it.

I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way

So instead you're distracted by the dopamine-inducing Hacker News feed.

Yep. I'm off facebook but I've been thinking about blocking hackernews and fark at the router level if I could. At some point you have to start doing things instead of reading about the people who are.

    noprocrast: yes
    maxvisit: 60
    minaway: 1440

Contemplating making minaway 10080

If that's the intention I would recommend this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

Sure, I think OP's just proffering that rather than replacing it with nothing, you replace it with a feed you do want to see.

It's been more like cancer-inducing with all of the political talk these days.

I've unfollowed all my friends who discuss politics in an alarmist and sensationalist way (keeping the small number who take a tempered and balanced perspective), and it honestly _is_ saving me from cancer since my stress levels (which causes all sorts of ailments) are much lower now.

How do you test a system like this for accuracy? Is this done by simulating millions of unique requests?

The algorithm's accuracy is known. From the wiki[1]:

    The HyperLogLog algorithm is able to estimate 
    cardinalities of > 10^9 with a typical error rate of 2%

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog

But what about the implementation accuracy? :)

Tests against both historical and synthetic datasets.

Reddit probably has enough analytics to be able to show mathematically that it will be accurate without simulating any requests.

Can't you just use Apache Benchmark and some proxies?

> "One thing that is very important to note is our sinkholing only stops this sample and there is nothing stopping them removing the domain check and trying again, so it’s incredibly importiant that any unpatched systems are patched as quickly as possible."

(A very important point at the bottom of the article)

The posts would get auto-deleted if their vote count got to -5. It was popular enough at my university that this kind of community moderation worked reasonably well, but in a lot of other locations it got abused.