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They don’t give the customer access to it, for probably an obvious reason.

“Code interpreter” is a product feature the customer can use that isn’t being discussed.

They can obviously support it internally, and the feature exists for ChatGPT, but they’re choosing not to expose that combo in the API yet because of product rollout constraints.


Then you should oppose the original paper as well which tests how 4o works without tools. Why not?

> The misappropriation theory of insider trading covers anyone who trades on material non public information sourced through a trusted relationship regardless of any fiduciary duty to the company. For example, if I tell my personal attorney a non public fact about the company I work at, and they trade on that information, they absolutely can be found guilty of insider trading despite having no relationship to the company at hand.

Huh. The lawyer example works because attorneys have a very specific, enforceable duty of confidentiality. Swap that relationship out and the conclusion may change. As written, the comment slides from "duty-based misuse of information" to "any private knowledge you shouldn’t have," which is not the same thing.

A lawyer (not my lawyer) gave me his off-the-cuff opinion on this scenario:

A pharmacologically-literate clinical trial participant for a novel new drug strongly suspects he did not receive the placebo/comparator drug, based on the subjective effects, plus their own pharmacology knowledge, experience with the placebo, and the research on the candidate drug.

However, this drug was not therapeutic for him, the side effects were onerous, or perhaps he believes the trial will be halted. Whatever their reasoning behind his inference, no details of others’ experiences were leaked to him, blinding was maintained; protocol was followed. He didn’t base this on a lab readout.

Based on his understanding of published research on the candidate drug, and projecting from his lived experience as lab rat, he believes this trial should disappoint shareholders. At the very least, shares may be priced too high.

Can the participant, based on this inference, invest $$$ shorting the pharma firm? This drug is considered the firm’s last best hope.

Their answer was yes, basically. He can trade on this non-public info.


This scenario seems very different because nobody gave the person any material non-public information at all, they simply deduced it from their experience participating in the trial. This feels similar to the question of "can a passenger on the Boeing jet with the door plug that blew out trade on that information" to which the answer appears to be yes.

Misappropriation theory is the following: > The misappropriation theory of insider trading is a form of insider trading where an individual trades stock in a corporation, with whom they are unaffiliated, on the basis of material non-public information they obtained through a breach of a fiduciary duty owed to the source of the information

The important part, which you're right was unclear in my comment is that the recipient of the information must have a fiduciary relationship with the source of the information, even if they do not have one with the company in question at all. That's the distinction.


Yeah, that is the axis.

And turns out I didn’t just stumble upon an unconsidered edge case because I got accepted into a drug trial and activated my galaxy brain:

Allan Norwich, The Clinical Trial Research Participant As An Inside Trader (J. Health Law, 2006).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1485012


Thanks, it was kind of frustrating especially as my first contact with a blog.


You can choose on the share sheet, right?

I’m referring to this:

- select something in Photos, then Share.

- tap “Options” under “1 photo selected” top of sheet.

The first choice there is:

Format:

[√] Automatic

[] Current

[] Most Compatible

Choose Automatic for the best format for the destination or Current to prevent file format conversions. Photos and videos may convert to JPEG, PNG, and H.264 formats if you choose Most Compatible.

Most Compatible will put a jpeg on Drive for example, I just verified myself.


Damn! I didn't know this, thank you!


this is my workflow


I buy gift cards often - if I know I’m going to spend money on Uber, why not give myself 25% off $100 before even any actual promotions are applied?


News for you, apparently Uber realizes that you have a gift card payment and jacks up your rates

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/1hb6rnj/rumors...


Parquet files greyed out in my browser.


I wouldn’t kneecap a OS project I wish to be adopted by licensing it GPL. Look at glibc which basically can’t practically support static linking.

You make any of your OS standard libraries GPL and they need to suck to use and can’t statically link your code without being forced to also be licensed GPL.

That viral property some people find desirable.


WRT kneecapping, history has shown that companies will bleed the commons dry and they need to be legally strong-armed into contributing back to the free software projects they make their fortunes off of.

Virality might suit the ego, but it doesn't make for a healthy project when its primary users are parasitic.


> history has shown that companies will bleed the commons dry and they need to be legally strong-armed into contributing back to the free software projects they make their fortunes off of.

Software is not a scarce good. Let companies use free software without contributing back as much as they wish; it doesn't affect others in the least. There is no bleeding of the commons here, because even if companies take as much as they can without giving back, it doesn't reduce the resources available for others.


Software is rarely finished, and development has real costs.

When that development gets silo'ed away in proprietary systems, that is potential development lost upstream. If that happens enough, upstream becomes starved and anemic, and with forks only living on in silos.

Apple, for example, has made trillions of dollars off of FreeBSD. To this day, FreeBSD still does not have a modern WiFi or Bluetooth stack.

Meanwhile, AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and even Apple, etc have full-time engineering roles and teams dedicated to upstreaming their improvements to Linux. And there are paid engineers at these companies that ensure WiFi and Bluetooth work on Linux.


Companies do worse than bleeding of the commons: lock down weak-licensed software and lock in users and devices. It totally reduces users ability to benefit from FOSS and reduces funding for developers.


Isn't this what made Linux successful?

Being able to sell it closed and not releasing the source would make closing the android ecosystem 'good old times', no?

We would only get a bunch of closed outdated company controlled binaries, but now for everything, not only drivers?


Not literally no signal/service, right? More likely “I have a few bars but data doesn’t seem to work… calls often won’t initiate unless 911?” thing you get when there’s too many devices connecting to an overburdened tower, in a network that needs more cells or something, and QoS/qci says no?

If it’s a population center someone would probably have put up a tower on their land ll


> Not literally no signal/service, right?

Come to Munich, go into any of the large old buildings, the central stairwells usually are phone dead zones. Truly dead.

Or try to go and hike in the Alps. Shit service, but as soon as you walk into Austrian territory, you'll suddenly have service.

Or try taking a train from Munich to, say, Landshut. You'll lose signal about 5 minutes after the train passes through the outskirts of Feldmoching.

Or try driving a car on the A8 highway to Salzburg in Austria. You'll lose signal about 5-10 minutes after passing Holzkirchen.

Or try taking a train from Passau to Wels in Austria. Passau is directly near the border. You will have a shit service right until the train passes the national border and Austrian towers take over.

The reason isn't technical. The Passau and Alps example shows it - identical geography, identical mountainous areas with about zero population... but wildly different attitudes in regulation.

> If it’s a population center someone would probably have put up a tower on their land ll

Here, you get death threats if you even propose putting up a tower on your land [1], in the UK nutjobs set a 5G tower ablaze [2].

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wolfratshausen/icking-5...

[2] https://www.blick.ch/ausland/grossbritannien-handymast-eines...


I stand corrected. I didn’t realize you could be a MIMBY for cell towers and also not currently have service.

Any organized resistance I’ve witnessed myself in the US has been something like an HOA saying no not tucked right here where our home values could take a hit or a view obstructed, please put it down the street or … anywhere else.

But if you had no cell service and your call dropped as you backed out of your garage or you tried to sell your house and the buyers phones suddenly had no service or they couldn’t get on the Internet at the open house, that’d feel like pretty concerning missing infrastructure.

I don’t think anti-5G wackos have dented a thing.


> I don’t think anti-5G wackos have dented a thing.

They have, at least here in Germany. We have a shitload of what we call "weiße Flecken", zones with zero service, of about the size of half of Schleswig-Holstein [1]. While a lot of these is in forests and mountainous areas, the zones in settlements are mostly due to the whackos and their organized campaigns.

[1] https://bmds.bund.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/detail/mob...


911 would get you nowhere in the UK;)

I have no phone signal in my village, a few miles from a major town. I have to use WiFi calling to talk on the phone. Our local politician campaigns against it, it is such an issue. Especially since analogue phone lines are due to be turned off soon. We still have a working red phone box though!

I travel around a bit in the area and blackspots are very common


Yes.

In the context of “cheap mobile data devices are widely accessible” I don’t think the distinction matters. If you’re relying on your £1 sim to trigger your solar battery charger and it doesn’t, then it doesn’t matter if you technically had signal or not.


> unless 911

Probably not that even since it's UK. Isn't it 999 in the UK? Has the UK started accepting 911->999 for the tourists?


According to Wikipedia

> 911 redirects to 999 on mobile phones/public phonebooths[citation needed] and on telephones used in USAFE bases.

So maybe? But without the source who knows.


How did you save me a click? Those bits were in this article. The guy that located the original report saved me some time.

You could only save somebody time if they skipped the content and started doing comments on HN anyhow, but that’s not all the information either, just a couple key points.


> You could only save somebody time if they skipped the content and started doing comments on HN anyhow

as is customary


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