I didn’t know there was internet censorship at Hitler’s time, preventing people from talking about the dictatorship. Can you back it up with a source? I think you might have to use a LLM to find one.
Weird choice of example when there are so many relevant examples happening right now. Even worse the US is currently suppressing speech and actions that protest foreign countries (and our support for them). Anti-BDS laws should surely be unconstitutional yet they stand. Detaining and deporting legal residents for their speech. Pulling unrelated funding from universities for not policing student speech. The US isn't particularly good about press freedom either.
“Fair use” is a notion related to copyright. The authors in Europe who won in cases of free software licensing violations did it on the grounds of breach of contract law.
Right, seems I can prevent AI training by marking a work here in Germany (via UrgH § 44b Abs. 3). That would be perhaps something to add to (a variant of) the GPL.
Doesn't prevent training in the US and use of the trained AI and material it produces here, I guess.
Then I have to start a civil law-suit and prove that the produced work is similar enough to the the original work. That was the step that failed in the Hellwig (Linux) vs. VMWare lawsuit.
Also the whole AI is “fair use” battle is not finished. AI companies like to pretend like it is but big part of “fair use” is that it doesn’t compete with the initial work… it’s hard to make a strong case there.
In either case "Fair use" is a thing very limited to USA and does not apply outside it. There may be similar things in other jurisdictions, but it cannot be assumed the same reasoning and rules apply.
It’s practically everything, IMHO. Last time I set up an Android device, I had to agree to at least 9 different Terms of Service before being allowed to use the phone.
Aren’t getting different results the norm in programming anyway? Developers usually don’t make the effort to include idempotency and make builds reproducible.
Normally, if you compile the same code twice on the same machine, you'll get the same result, even if it's not truly reproducible across machines or large gaps in time. And differences between machines or across time are usually small enough that they don't impact the observed behavior of the code, especially if you pin your dependencies.
However, with LaTeX, the output of the first run is often an input to the second run, so you get notably different results if you only compile it once vs. compiling twice. When I last wrote LaTeX about ten years ago, I usually encountered this with page numbers and tables of context, since the page numbers couldn't be determined until the layout was complete. So the first pass would get the bulk of the layout and content in place, and then the second pass would do it all again, but this time with real page numbers. You would never expect to see something like this in a modern compiler, at least not in a way that's visible to the user.
(That said, it's been ten years, and I never compiled anything as long or complex as a PhD thesis, so I could be wrong about why you have to compile twice.)
I wrote my PhD (physics) in LaTeX and I indeed needed to compile twice (at least) to have a correct DVI file.
It was 25 years ago, though, but apparently this part did not change.
This said, I was at least sure that I would get an excellent result and not be like my friend who used MS Word and one day his file was "locked". He could not add a letter to it and had to retype everything.
Compared to that my concern about where a figure would land in the final document was nothing.
I also vote for HTML. It’s the only language I can write in which also includes all the metadata I want to include (schema.org and wikidata.org ontologies).
I’m very curious about why I’ve been downvoted. I assumed the HN crowd was tech-savvy enough to know what ontologies are? And one can’t write a blog post in Turtle.
Yes, I don't think a lot of people realize that it's possible to run the AirSense 11 (I don't know about other models/brands) without distilled water. Resmed even sells "ResMed AirSense & AirCurve 11 Side Cover", which takes the place of the water tank.
My humidifier broke years ago and I haven't bothered to replace my unit. It gives me a little extra space to sneak a few more things onto flights by stuffing them in the CPAP bag where the humidifier would go. (I don't remember what model number I have, it's ancient, but the humidifier is easily detachable.)
