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zydex··on Twitter Can Detect Screenshots
Hasn’t screenshot detection been a key feature of Snapchat for many years, possibly even since inception?
zydex··on 2160p resolution is now premium feature on YouTube
They’re rolling it out location by location.
zydex··on Rockstar Games confirms they were hacked by an outside party
It’s likely they were using placeholder animations at such an early stage of the game’s production. I think we’ll see all-new animations for VI.
zydex··on Not inside trading just 100% winning rate
In addition to the other comments about the creation of highly perverse incentives, options trading is intriniscally zero-sum.

When a politician makes a positive return on selling their contract(s), another person loses and their wealth is transferred to the politician.

zydex··on Tell HN: Microsoft's captcha is pretty hard
I believe this is an Arkose Labs captcha for anyone wondering.

We are at a point where the gap between the capability of the most advanced vision models and the capability of even the slowest neurotypical person to solve a captcha in a reasonable amount of time is very small.

I recently encountered a dart board addition puzzle which was shockingly confusing and took me about 30 seconds to a minute to solve.

zydex··on Jane Street: the top Wall Street firm ‘no one’s heard of’
They’re a market maker – earning more in periods of volatility and stress as they essentially arbitrage the market. They aren’t a fund that speculates on the future value of stocks.
zydex··on Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
You'll probably still be losing more and more features as they're moved to the cloud and can't be cracked.
zydex··on Skyrim on Mac When?
I think the metric is only supposed to represent the absolute maximum possible users. Otherwise one could also say that many people only use their PlayStations to play FPS’s or that a large portion of Switch users are children that wouldn’t purchase Skyrim etc etc.
zydex··on Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider (2007)
Apologies, that’s my mistake I didn’t realise it was in the url when I copied and submitted.
zydex··on Paige Thompson convicted over data theft from AWS user accounts
Appears to me to be a bit of a misleading title; the hack cost Capital One $270m in fines and compensation. Title seems to imply $270m was stolen in the hack.
zydex··on Apple Unveils M2
That's the case for the M1 Pro and M1 Ultra. The regular M1 only supports a single external display.
zydex··on Tesla booted from S&P 500 ESG index
Who is this convenient for? Tesla is still a constituent of the S&P 500.
zydex··on Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke
There were no human errors or bugs at play here.
zydex··on Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
In order to fund the Twitter deal. They were Tesla not Twitter shares.
zydex··on UST “Stablecoin” at $.43
A Twitter announcement for Crypto support would absolutely not be enough to pump the market. The wider sell off in crypto is due to a sell off in all markets due to a number of factors such as increasing rates. This is not some minor slump that will end with a Musk tweet.
zydex··on UST “Stablecoin” at $.43
Incorrect. UST is also supported by LFG Bitcoin reserves intended to defend the peg, so the term "backed up" is entirely appropriate.
zydex··on UST “Stablecoin” at $.43
Much of those Bitcoin reserves have already been sold, causing most of the BTC price decrease.
zydex··on UST “Stablecoin” at $.43
It has definitely impacted the BTC price. A ton of BTC was quickly sold off in order to try and support UST.
zydex··on UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
It deserves to fail. Another crypto ecosystem bootstrapped off itself.
zydex··on Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (2019)
I think (1) is a bit harsh relating to the terminology. Technically front running is based on plainly “non-public” information. The term has been generalised and expanded to include crypto transactions which are slightly more obfuscated from the average user who doesn’t sit and watch the mempool. I think the term is completely appropriate.
zydex··on Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (2019)
Everyone calls it MEV because of this very paper. They coined the term. You did answer your own question in (3).
zydex··on Show HN: Tetris, but silly
I have to admit I very quickly opted for the bruteforce method of "spam-and-compress" in order to clear rows.
zydex··on Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll
A point I commonly hear made from both Tesla and Comma.ai for example is that Lidar is far too expensive with Waymo's vehicle costing a total of $200,000 and that cameras alone are sufficient for full self driving. I do think that cameras alone are probably sufficient for full self-driving but every time I hear this point I think to myself that self driving progress is moving so slowly on the camera-only front that Lidar might become so affordable by the time camera-only makes substantial progress that by that point it was much more efficient to just have been developing with Lidar from the start. Am I missing something or just completely wrong? I would really appreciate any insight on this.
zydex··on Comma Body: The Future of People
It doesn't come with a Comma Three which is required for the device to function, costing an additional $2000. $3000 in total.
zydex··on Comma Body: The Future of People
$3000 is a fair price? To me it seems excessive but maybe I am missing something.
zydex··on Robinhood reports 43% revenue decline
In my opinion it's closer to the former rather than the latter.
zydex··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
That story has nothing to do with this one. Did you even read the above story?
zydex··on I Lost $150K in a Day
Almost exactly what I was going to say. Nothing of interest here, gambler gambles with the most effective gambling vehicle of this generation.
zydex··on I didn't return my Apple Studio Display
Note since I haven’t seen it mentioned; the power cable is in fact detachable, it just requires an unnaturally high level of force to remove.
zydex··on Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR
Did you watch the documentary?
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