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Re:Twitter Can Detect Screenshots on Saturday October 08, 2022 @07:19AM (#33131395)
Hasn’t screenshot detection been a key feature of Snapchat for many years, possibly even since inception?
Re:2160p resolution is now premium feature on YouTube on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:11PM (#32942574)
They’re rolling it out location by location.
Probably not a hugely popular viewpoint, but I can’t help but immediately think there’s a good chance it’s dirty money. There’s just so much of it that can’t be laundered so it’s worthless except for altruistic purposes like this.
Re:Rockstar Games confirms they were hacked by an outside party on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:39AM (#32899822)
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.
Re:Not inside trading just 100% winning rate on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:43PM (#32874316)
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.

Re:Tell HN: Microsoft's captcha is pretty hard on Monday September 05, 2022 @08:55PM (#32731315)
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.

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.
You'll probably still be losing more and more features as they're moved to the cloud and can't be cracked.
Re:Skyrim on Mac When? on Sunday July 17, 2022 @12:07PM (#32128008)
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.
Re:Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider (2007) on Sunday July 03, 2022 @05:47PM (#31971301)
Apologies, that’s my mistake I didn’t realise it was in the url when I copied and submitted.
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.
Re:Apple Unveils M2 on Monday June 06, 2022 @04:07PM (#31645480)
That's the case for the M1 Pro and M1 Ultra. The regular M1 only supports a single external display.
Re:Tesla booted from S&P 500 ESG index on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:00PM (#31425073)
Who is this convenient for? Tesla is still a constituent of the S&P 500.
Re:Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:51AM (#31378510)
There were no human errors or bugs at play here.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:21PM (#31369524)
In order to fund the Twitter deal. They were Tesla not Twitter shares.
Re:UST “Stablecoin” at $.43 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:24AM (#31337265)
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.
Re:UST “Stablecoin” at $.43 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:00AM (#31337089)
Incorrect. UST is also supported by LFG Bitcoin reserves intended to defend the peg, so the term "backed up" is entirely appropriate.
Re:UST “Stablecoin” at $.43 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:55AM (#31337051)
Much of those Bitcoin reserves have already been sold, causing most of the BTC price decrease.
Re:UST “Stablecoin” at $.43 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:34AM (#31336895)
It has definitely impacted the BTC price. A ton of BTC was quickly sold off in order to try and support UST.
Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg on Monday May 09, 2022 @08:24PM (#31321755)
It deserves to fail. Another crypto ecosystem bootstrapped off itself.
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.
Everyone calls it MEV because of this very paper. They coined the term. You did answer your own question in (3).
Re:Show HN: Tetris, but silly on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:54PM (#31292032)
I have to admit I very quickly opted for the bruteforce method of "spam-and-compress" in order to clear rows.
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.
Re:Comma Body: The Future of People on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @11:31PM (#31269076)
It doesn't come with a Comma Three which is required for the device to function, costing an additional $2000. $3000 in total.
Re:Comma Body: The Future of People on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:29PM (#31266690)
$3000 is a fair price? To me it seems excessive but maybe I am missing something.
Re:Robinhood reports 43% revenue decline on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:25PM (#31210191)
In my opinion it's closer to the former rather than the latter.

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