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What? I said I'd upvoted the parent comment because I thought it was funny and I get downvoted? Wtf, sometimes I just don't get HN :-/
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Thanks for mentioning Popper’s paradox, I looked it up just now and its scenario has been on my mind for a long time. Now I can just refer to it, in a fashion like Dunning-Kruger.
Popper is often misunderstood. He was a passionate advocate of free speech and rational argument; when he said "intolerance" he was referring to people who would use violence to suppress free speech: > for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is de…
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It's odd to me that you think I've insulated myself with only people that think like me. It's like you don't know me at all. I'm literally the person who reached out and had 60 different meetings with all sorts there, and continued to maintain bipartisan group chats. Try to realize that you appear to be the one who thinks I'm a caricature.
> I'm literally the person who reached out and had 60 different meetings with all sorts there, Yup, and I commended you for it. However, that was in 2017. I don't know how carefully you read my original comment, but it can be summarized up as "Fosco started out great, but he's been slowly getting worse". :) > and continued to maintain bipartisan group chats. I'd ask you to poll the folks there about how representativ…
If you just want to know how the breach[1] happened: it was SQL injection, where string interpolation was used to construct a query, rather than use parametrized queries. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/rookie-coding-mistak...
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This part, linked here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26339446
not from usa, but genuinely curious. why is "not talking to X journals" disgusting? many people do that because they don't want to be on a journal with an editorial line they don't like. am I missing something about the guy or the story?
Not talking to someone based on their religion on the other hand is really quite rude, shallow and discriminatory.
Wow, it is actually shocking how disgusting the CEO's comments are.
Yeah, he's the worst. I knew him in YC, and actually liked him. But I watched him spiral as he wasn't able to raise money for his startup, including starting to go to Trump rallies "out of curiosity". His FB posts began to include worse and worse rhetoric. It was crazy to watch him get radicalized in realtime. It ended in him harassing some (minority) YC founders who said they were scared by saying we should "Build t…
Edit: read the article. YC threw him out because he was harassing people, not because he was conservative or threatened anyone. Obviously you have to be respectful and tolerant in a group like YC regardless of your political leanings. I see why he got the boot, his comments were hot garbage.
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What? I said I'd upvoted the parent comment because I thought it was funny and I get downvoted? Wtf, sometimes I just don't get HN :-/
HN is not reddit. Comments should meaningfully add to the conversation. In this case your comment is just adding noise for people to scroll past.
Thanks, I guess. Whoops, more noise.
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I thought bcrypt had built in salts, how was he able to reverse those hashes for simple passwords? Any better algorithm to use or recommendation on salting?
Salts have virtually nothing to do with the security of password hashes. Unix password hashes have essentially always be salted; they're cracked with dictionary generators, not with rainbow tables.
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Yeah, he's the worst. I knew him in YC, and actually liked him. But I watched him spiral as he wasn't able to raise money for his startup, including starting to go to Trump rallies "out of curiosity". His FB posts began to include worse and worse rhetoric. It was crazy to watch him get radicalized in realtime. It ended in him harassing some (minority) YC founders who said they were scared by saying we should "Build t…
HN thread from 2016 on Torba getting booted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388 Includes comments from Sam Altman and Torba, posting as rvcamo