This whole post is unnecessary if you have threaded replies and threaded conversations.

Is it, though?

It's not clear to me that they even still sell the weather service itself. They do sell the sensors, but this feels a little off target as a forum to sell either weather data or sensors for aircraft.

The poster claims no longer to be employed there, and hasn't obviously posted anything else on this topic.

And, well, TAMDAR data itself as used to improve forecasting is of broad interest.

Assume good faith.

What is the problem with promoting your service ? Half of YC mantra is about hustling and spamming your company services everywhere, on boards, to other founders who might use the service, to investors, etc

It wasn't an ad. I used to work for the parent company of PWS years ago, and their weather model was really awesome.

I thought the TAMDAR tech reference might be if interest to those following and reading comments here.

I'm not associated with them anymore and I'm not sure how much of their model still exists after the assets were sold to flyht, but I hope it does because we need good weather models!

Fair enough being vigilant, but not an ad.

You can talk about your previous work and be happy about sharing it with the world without it being an advertisement.

This is why connecting formal verification to an infinite (possibly-incorrect-)labor machine such as an LLM system can indeed save human labor.

Can you help verify some of the translations? I’m getting different results using GTranslate.

I'd advise to use Chatgpt instead of Google Translate, they are in different leagues when it comes to the translation level.

Google translate is closer to a B1 level sometimes...

Thanks for sharing this Yuval! Thanks as well for using permissive licenses so I can use this at work.

Curious, which license can't you use at work for a simple shell tool? Considering you're not linking against it, even GPL3 should be okay, right?

Most big employers consider GPL unusable and will only allow Apache, MIT, BSD, and other permissive patent-free licenses.

So they don't let you use grep? Sounds like hell.

Yeah, caution with GPL is understandable if you're shipping it or making it a part of a hosted service. But internal use is not the intention of GPL, so a blanket ban like that would put that shop at a disadvantage, like the other comment said, that basically rules out all kinds of things.

Yes, at least for platforms like Discord, they bear the responsibility based on my non-lawyer reading of the plain English. YMMV, IANAL.

That is not the stated purpose of the law and there is recourse built into it. Too often folks view these laws as binaries where none exists.

It's never the stated purpose of the law, but we might do well to be concerned with what it actually does rather than what the proponents claim it would do.

Recourse doesn't matter for a sole proprietorship. If they have to engage with a lawyer whatsoever, the site is dead or blocked because they don't have the resources for that.

I’d encourage you to read the actual text of the law and not just others’ interpretation. The sole proprietorship likely falls into one of the exception clauses or is likely using a platform.

I feel like you're not understanding; people aren't going to read the law, because the law is non-trivial and they don't feel comfortable doing that themselves instead of hiring a lawyer. But they can't afford to hire a lawyer, so instead they're going to block.

What recourse? A small, 5o-member community doesn't have the resources to ensure they're in compliance, and Ofcom's statement about how smaller players are "unlikely" to be affected is not particularly reassuring.

The "stated purpose" is irrelevant. Even if they are being honest about their stated purpose (questionable), the only thing that matters is how it ends up playing out in reality.

Read the actual text of the law. It creates opportunities to appeal and other options. Another option is for these communities to band together, which seems to be happening.