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This looks amazing! How long did it take to get to this state?
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @10:21PM (#46381781)
Blessed Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
> “their other services widely available for free”

None of their services are free. You just pay for them in other ways, even if you don’t realize it.

The issue is that there’s nothing that requires prosecution, just allows it.

This is the doubled edged nature of prosecutorial discretion.

Is this malicious compliance or is the data all really in violation of the EO?
Thanks for your efforts in liberating this data so that Ancestry.com isn’t the only ones with it!

Reminds me a bit muckrock.com as well.

Re:Lyft launches a rider verification pilot program on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @05:02PM (#41373001)
Traditional taxi services haven’t needed this feature, why does Lyft?

Is there a way I can opt out, short of deleting my account?

I wonder if this ruling could also force the courts to start addressing unconstitutional civil forfeiture
Did Infineon not issue a GIDEP Notice for these parts?

If not, does that mean that maybe NASA is using them outside of their designed spec?

(See also: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR...)

Re:Building a DIY CT/CAT scanner for $200 [video] on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:31AM (#39163074)
Ben from Applied Science did this 11 years ago too: https://youtu.be/hF3V-GHiJ78?si=I6xH7WrrqVaDK-Hv
Re:How Big Is YouTube? on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:07PM (#38741542)
Isn’t this just a variation of the Monte Carlo method?
Re:Synology MFA Fails if Internet is down on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:34PM (#38031362)
Barclays calls it a PINsentry card reader
Re:Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:33AM (#37676177)
This! 100%

The people who sign up to help (such as myself) want to help. Honestly, my frustration is that I don’t get asked enough.

NB: News+ only comes with the Premier level of Apple One, not with the Individual or Family tiers.
I have separate accounts for work and home.

I have my work account as a member of the family group, and that seems to work well.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:01PM (#36610038)
https://AndrewFerguson.net - used to be more of a diary way back when, but now more of a place to share non-work related technical stuff I’ve been doing
Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search on Monday June 19, 2023 @06:23PM (#36397198)
The door can still be designed to open outward and also able to be unlatched from the inside: those aren’t mutually exclusive properties.
What about low ranking Show HN that did survive?
Re:Andrew Huberman Has Supplements on the Brain on Saturday April 08, 2023 @09:09PM (#35499225)
Seattle Public Library gives you free access if you’re a member. I suspect other libraries do as well!

https://www.spl.org/online-resources/consumer-and-diy

Re:Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:16PM (#34667967)
My understanding is that when an aircraft is < 1000 AGL the TCAS would be at Sensitivity Level 2 (SL2) and they would still get Traffic Advisories (but not a Resolution Advisory); and only once landed and the pilot turns off TCAS would they no longer get messages?
Re:Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:52AM (#34662853)
Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_...

FR24 is a combination of ground-based radar (both primary and secondary surveillance) and ADS-B data.

TCAS (as I understand it) uses the transponder part of secondary surveillance radar, but with out the bearing/ranging info, as well as ADS-B (if equipped).

> “Additionally, in case of future violations ChessBase is required to pay a contractual penalty to the FSFE for each breach of Stockfish’s initial request for ChessBase to cease its violations of the GPL-3.0. Under the terms of the settlement, this amount will be determined at Stockfish’s discretion.”

I’m incredibly surprised that anyone would allow an unlimited/open-ended financial risk like that.

Re:Audiobooks on Spotify: Here's the full story on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:35PM (#33360145)
I dropped Spotify and went to Apple Music because of this.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most complex topic you understand? on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @12:28PM (#32084944)
FAA Certification
Definitely would be interested in a single income (wife is SAHM) with kids base case.
Re:Startup plans to put the first data center on the Moon on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:53PM (#31182501)
What would prevent someone else from coming along and simply stealing (or otherwise tampering with) these things?

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