skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intersection Observer is being developed for Safari/WebKit: https://webkit.org/status/#?search=intersection
I've started keeping a log of all information I provide to a company: addresses, phone numbers, names, social security number, etc... I started doing it just to keep track of everywhere I need to update next time I change address, phone, cards, and emails at the same time[1], but it's been eye opening to watch the list grow.

I think of it as something like a reverse password manager; instead of "here's a website, what's my data", it's "here's a bit of information about myself, who has it?"

It's a pain keeping that list updated but at this point I'm so hooked on being able to see my personal info leak out into the world bit by bit that the friction is worth it.

I'm still trying to figure out what I should do with the data I have on myself, if anyone has any suggestions.

[1] That situation seems sketchy seeing it written down like that, so just want to explain that it's because I moved to a different country (address, phone, credit cards) and away from gmail at the same time.
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Which is a shame, because it is the interface that is one of the worst aspects of Edge.

Not that I know that well, my work that forces my Windows usage still makes me use IE.
> that they need to kill vast amounts of civilians

Neither Israel nor Sweden kill vast amount of civilians. The fact that you write that is very concerning.

And the fact that you think it's Israel's fault that Arabs want to exterminate it is just ......... I don't even know what to write to someone like you.
I see your point. I suppose I was thinking the dominant open source kernel.
Like any gig economy job, people have gotten religious at it. There's a guy by my neighborhood who drives slowly with a brand new sprinter van while another loads the scooters into the moving vehicle. There is no shortage of people willing to rack up $100 a day on the side.
>Yeah, this is just depressing and honestly a little baffling. Seems contrary to Microsoft's interests - why let Google control this aspect of the Web?

Chromium != Google. Chromium is the FOSS project that Chrome is based off of.
Where is this partisanship coming from? There's no mention of being liberal or conservative upstream from this comment but this comment (and others of yours) are attempting to call out one party in the US and throwing fault their way. It's odd since it isn't a thing in the original article probably because it's not about the US at all.
I honestly wondered, while I was at Microsoft‚ why this has not happened with Edge from the beginning. Microsoft knew how problematic mshtml.dll was and how frequently it led to zero-day vulnerabilities, while Chrome was not having any high-profile 0-days for many months, maybe years.

Edge was mostly a UI remake of MSIE and it used mostly the same security model, rendering engine etc. It was never a real value add over MSIE.
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Don't worry about it. You're not really allowed to express controversial views on HN. It's more of an entertainment site than a quest for the truth.
Software best practices are ripped from physical engineering
Have you ridden one?
> That's a false dichotomy. Ask MetaFilter is a much better Yahoo Answers, but I can be pseudonymous there.

There's an example that just happens to be the greatest knowledge platform ever built in world history. Wikipedia allows non real name contributions. Plainly next to that, Quora has no legitimate excuse for requiring real names to ensure quality. It's for one reason: $$$. They have to figure out how to reach a $3b valuation at some point so their VC owners can get a reasonable exit. It guarantees an inevitable disaster for a knowledge service. The conflict between quality and always needing more and more junk content to slap ads on and allowing for abusive business practices to reach for that fat exit for the VCs. And if you don't do it, they'll put someone in charge that will. Unless you can find another business model as Stack Exchange did, stay private & small/lean (so you don't have to try to pretend to be a $3b company when your business model will never legitimately get you beyond 1/20th that), or go the donation Wikipedia route.
Look at Vivaldi. It's a reimplementation of classic Opera 12 style browser as a Chromium-based browser. It supports tabs on all four sides by default.
Same. All my passwords are 100+ characters via LastPass. Except the ones the have to be only 12 :(
The attention deconcentration technique developed by Oleg Bakhtiyarov is very easy and efficient. I'm not sure if there are any good practical intros into it available in any language but Russian though (those of you who understand Russian an easily find some introductory videos on YouTube).
Does getting a nanodegree from Udacity significantly improve ones hirability? For $600, it looks like one gets a shot at a nanodegree that has numerous soft deadlines, but with fixed, inflexible deadlines potentially piling up at the end of the course.

In my experience, having a mostly self paced class with no hard deadlines, then a stack of hard deadlines for projects at the very end results in stressed out students and a ton of poorly done work. Choose a model and stick to it, either its self paced with no defined end date, in which case people will learn at their own pace, or its a classic fixed format course, with a list of due dates published prior to the class even starting.

Edit: Additionally, the refund window seems much shorter than one sees at traditional colleges and there is still no accreditation for the nanodegrees Udacity lists. At accredited institutions, these types of workforce retraining programs have a bit more heft, and set you up to go straight into a decently paid job. It appears Udacity hasn't solved this problem.
Ahh, yes. It was the companies who rode them on the sidewalks.
Edge isn’t IE. That you don’t know that is indicative of the problem.
why are you discussing moral relativism so boldly as if
it’s a fact. it’s that postmodernist philosophy that’s totally degraded society.

in some societies it’s “immoral” not to rape someone as punishment or to not kill a “unclean” ethnicity and your definition supports that
I don't think they were advocating for Safari either...
Yes, but there is a bright side too. Mr. Rogers developed a personal relationship with many of his viewers in the way that you are talking about, and I think he did a great service to the world
You might want to consider a foldable bike. They seem to address a lot of your issues.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-DuckDuckGo-show-me-the-ads-th...

This model doesn't seem bad, advertising without tracking.
An overwhelming majority of the committers to Chromium, as well as the leadership, are in the Google reporting structure.
The classic recession signal that most follow is a 2-10 inversion.
Since I put tire liners inside my tires I haven't had a single puncture.
i take my own food to work; this makes lunch time shorter and less distracting for me. Also eating out may not be the most healthy thing to do, you never know what stuff they put into the food and how they process it.
(also cooking is fun, not too complicated and a very rewarding activity)
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Does FF have a feature crowdfunding site? I would totally donate $100 a month until the bounty is high enough that someone would actually do it.
And the OS kernel monoculture is to the open source world's detriment. I think it's fantastic that Fuchsia is going to give Linux a run for its money: Fuchsia is fundamentally better architected in numerous ways than Linux is.
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Quora Suffered Data Breach, 100M Users Affected
The risk of crashing and getting brain damage is real but small. The risk of not riding a bike because of helmet laws and then getting fat is real and common. One of these issues costs a whole lot more to the public.
If Linux was owned and controlled by Google, I think it would be a lot more controversial.
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A huge number of chargers (the people) ride the scooters and stack them on the one they are riding.

Even if a vehicle is used, it is nowhere near the fuel consumed by all the scooter trips combined. It collects multiple and is only after several days per scooter.
Huh. Good to know, thanks.
That wasn't the point I was making at all.

What I was saying is that journalism, in its current state, often runs sensational stories that later end up being false or otherwise unsupported. That report I mentioned was not about the media rewriting a science publication -- the publication itself was published with errors in it. The media just accurately repeated those falsehoods. The problem is that, due to the nature of social media, the sensational stories get let's say a million hits. Later on they either update the story to more accurately reflect the truth or run a retraction. These 'corrections', by contrast get maybe a hundred hits. So you have people who have wildly broken worldviews largely because they take the media at face value.

The following quote from Thomas Jefferson is dated 1807, but it's now more relevant than ever simply because mass media is resulting in mass misinformation: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."
That's so awful. Which password managers are not like that? I assume KeepassXC is good since its open source
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Microsoft should give up entirely on Internet browser development. I cannot see any good reason to throw their money away like this. They are a company too dependant on legacy software to bother competing with Google and Mozilla. Cloud services seem to be their brightest modern opportunity, but they really weren't prepared for the 2010's. Competing with Chrome is just chasing cars. Of course they've always had the advantage of being the default browser. I still don't think average users will ever see IE as anymore than a fly on a Window. Regardless of who's layout engine theyre forking.
Then of course there's the lack of support for WebRTC and virtually no support for PWAs.

From Webkit.org, June 7, 2017 [1]:

>Today we are thrilled to announce WebKit support for WebRTC, available on Safari on macOS High Sierra, iOS 11, and Safari Technology Preview 32. In this post, we will go through an overview of our implementation. We will have future posts that cover more best practices for developers.

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/7726/announcing-webrtc-and-media-cap...

For PWAs, you need Service Workers and some accompanying APIs and Safari seems to have those as well: https://webkit.org/blog/8090/workers-at-your-service/
So Quantum didn't do any good in terms of market share... so much effective efforts. I hope they keep going.
It's a private company who explicitly exist to develop and deploy exploits against private citizens priced at rates that are only affordable to Nation States... I'm pretty sure that the ex-IDF developers know exactly what they're doing.
For those wondering the same thing as me:

http://www.perennialfinancialservices.com/blog/thank-uncle-f...
It was a bad decision to make the logo similar to Internet Explorer, that alone is enough reason to not use it.

They can change the tech as much as they want. They can hire armies of engineers and make the browser 1000% faster than Chrome... but if they reuse the stupid logo it will fail again, and again, and again until they give up and forget that logo ever existed.
Something still feels wrong about something that takes comaparatively so little effort making so much money. I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s much much easier than many other proffesions. Think of software engineers slaving over brilliant designs staying up night after night for a few hundred thousand per year, or even NFL stars that expose their brains to permanent damage. It’s almost like a new form of the lottery. The viral lottery.
Personally I’ve experienced something like this while reading fiction. The characters are so life-like and endearing in some books that I miss them and feel a loneliness temporarily after finishing. So I guess it isn’t just modern media, humans just have a tremendous capacity and need to connect.
See https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/hosted-sims-for-priv...

Edit: I don't have any affiliate etc association with them.
I'm happy enough to avoid any service that will want ID/passport photos.

'cause we can already see "What's next" - it's a blog post that starts with "We take our customer's privacy very seriously", and then goes on to demonstrate that they did not. (Today's example is Quora. Last week's was Starwood hotels getting popped for half a billion customer records.)
Seems like a complete database exfiltration. Quora advertisers also had info compromised from a separate email notice:

- Account information available on the Ads Manager account settings page.
- The email address provided for notifications about your ad campaigns.
- Campaign structure and setup, including information like budgets, schedule, bids, targeting, and ad information.
- Notifications that were in your Ads Manager, such as ad paused, logo approved, and ad ready.
- Audience setup information available on the Ads Manager audience page such as types and creation date.
- Partial credit card information, including name, expiration date, and the last four digits of the credit card.
I had a ~power related issue using Quantum. It "killed" my cpu (temp rising by 10s of degrees so fast I didn't have time to throttle before kernel thermal shutdown). I guess it's so parallel and so gpu intensive that my whole system goes into fever.

ps: a x201 core i5 520m
Not really. In lots of relatively large companies there is a good relationship between infrastructure, development and security teams and they will work to find a solution that works for everybody.
Quora is all user-generated content that they monetize. They actually pay users to post questions (but not answers).
Hilarious fanboy conspiracy theories
“It’s the economy stupid” (bill clinton) and a bunch of racists.
Quora. Current holder of the #1 position on HN's front page with this: https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update?share=1

Just don't. And if you have, close your account. (Not that it would have helped, it sounds like Quora "helpfully" retained user data for you "in case you wanted to reactivate your account", and that all got popped too...)
I donated to the Mozilla Foundation today when I heard about this trend coupled with the rumor of Edge's sunsetting.

Even if the money is simply spent on marketing, I think that could be a good thing.
Unfortunately, for some people that "E" means "internet"
They aren't being incentiviced hard enough. Security costs money and can be inconvenient both for you and the users, which is not good for startups.

In addition to that, attackers only have to get lucky once, the defenders have to check every entryway.
I have been using Pass [0] with passff [1] and been pretty happy about it. Simple and offline password management where passwords live in gpg encrypted files. Additional features I like are tracking changes with git, bash completion and copying passwords to clipboard for few seconds temporarily, and a few very useful extensions.

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Do they support automatically adding/updating sites yet?
> However loyal viewers are fooled into this false sense of reality, where they are friends with content creator and this is not a persona at all, he's my friend.

Just like Mister Roger's Neighborhood in the 1970s.
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I don’t think they intend to let Google control anything — least of all the future of the web. They have been burned too badly by them for that. They are more likely to do what Google did — they used WebKit in the early years of Chrome and then forked it to create Blink once it had gained enough traction. Microsoft is likely to do the same at some point — assuming their browser gains traction. And I, for one, hope it does — and that they make it cross platform. We need an a way to browse the web without Google tracking and Firefox is just not cutting it. And while Safari works, it is not available on other platforms.

Regarding the problems with Edge, mainstream websites don’t face problems — but you hit the edge cases (no pun intended) when you try to use it for smaller sites — and especially sites meant for limited audience — e.g. internal websites built by enterprises. They are often tested for Chrome and Firefox only — and maybe Safari if there are significant number of Macs in use.

I can’t really blame the developers for not wanting to waste their time on a browser with limited usage and — especially since it often presents challenges not posed by other browsers.
Good question. At the moment it's static. I plan to make it do online learning at some point where it updates the weights as you use it.
Embed Gecko or Servo?
Have you opened up the dev tools?
> "This is something I've seen before, but solely with stories pertaining to Elon Musk."

This is likely selection bias. I've seen plenty of stories on other topics sink in rank as well that had nothing to do with Elon Musk.

See the FAQ for more details on ranking:

> "How are stories ranked?"

> "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way."

> "Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which downweights overheated discussions, and moderator intervention."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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I think this is interesting. What is more interesting to me is that this would have been a very good chance to align themselves with Apple (WebKit) or Mozilla instead. Effectively Google is far far more of threat than either of these two companies. In fact I think at this point Apple and Microsoft have so much more in common than different in terms of goals, they don’t even really compete head on anymore.

Shocks me they aren’t considering that
You can retrain it once you have a bunch of data with the train command. But I'll probably make it do online learning at some point too.
Yes, but they also allow organization accounts now, and they're rather slow at dealing with spam so around half the people you see are using fake names.
If you have a HomePod, try saying "Hey, Hugh!". I'm getting false positives with 'strayan accent.