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New comment by for1nner in "Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat"

for1nner — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:19:38 +0000

A while back I stumbled upon a youtube channel[1] dedicated to just solo sailing trips. I'm not sure how much is him/his video composition vs. just the subject matter of filming one's seemingly minuscule progress across the vast reaches of ocean, but I became entranced by just the calm plodding-ness of his days. Did a great job of breaking down trips and prep in some of his videos.

Can't speak to his latest stuff, so YMMV, but for a while it worked for me as incredible background. I imagine there's more and more content like this on YT, what with more powerful technology becoming more ubiquitous.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@samholmessailing/videos

New comment by for1nner in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

for1nner — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:56:10 +0000

from itchio to 200K+ on steam. Fantastic work. I have loved every minute of playing, and am astounded by the amount of work you've put into the game. Wild to see it a year+ ago vs today. But also still rage inducing when a drop misses every one of my triggers (gg). <3

New comment by for1nner in "JavaScript Temporal is coming"

for1nner — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:59:26 +0000

> what’s next, pattern matching?

Oh boy do I have news for you... https://tc39.es/proposal-pattern-matching/

New comment by for1nner in "Helping wikis move away from Fandom"

for1nner — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:20:20 +0000

It's hard running and managing wikis, and anyone/org/group that does so outside of the auspices of fandom or similar trash-aggregation hosts should be celebrated. Love this for weirdgloop. On a related note, shoutout to liquipedia[1], which has been a great experience for so long (a number of years I refuse to recognize as it would prove I'm old), and I have always feared the possibility of it moving to or becoming a fandom.

[1]https://liquipedia.net/

New comment by for1nner in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

for1nner — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:43:09 +0000

Inevitable settlement with no real change in the market dynamics, or am I too down on the U.S. Justice system?

New comment by for1nner in "Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents (2021)"

for1nner — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:44:53 +0000

This is the kind of discourse I seek out on HN. ty

New comment by for1nner in "The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived"

for1nner — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:45:41 +0000

Am I blocking too many scripts, or has it been HN'd to death with requests?

New comment by for1nner in "Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding"

for1nner — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:46:00 +0000

I think their point was that openAI (the nonpro) had the right idea in re: those concerns/concentration.

The velocity of release and entwining with MSFT (by the profit side) might then be reasonably seen as a great concern for the board.

New comment by for1nner in "Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding"

for1nner — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:40:17 +0000

> So -- if appropriate -- he could make changes.

Where are you drawing this conclusion from? Nothing in the text suggests that was his intent - certainly his actions thereafter suggest that he was in fact more concerned with the potential harm to the for-profit company.

New comment by for1nner in "Casino-like apps have drained people of millions"

for1nner — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:42:07 +0000

We knew this about casinos. That's why they were relegated to a little hellish desert town.

What happened that we decided apps somehow solved the problems related to gambling?

New comment by for1nner in "Judge Dismisses Copyright Claims Against AI Image Generators"

for1nner — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:04:44 +0000

I don't really see a way they can make their claims "more accurate" unless these models decide to open-source - and why would they ever do that?

New comment by for1nner in "Judge Dismisses Copyright Claims Against AI Image Generators"

for1nner — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:59:46 +0000

That's a pretty low bar though, no? Everyone just updates their T&Cs and laughs their way to the bank with free training data - the real meat of the claims was what was dismissed.

New comment by for1nner in "Judge Dismisses Copyright Claims Against AI Image Generators"

for1nner — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:58:10 +0000

Am I wrong that this seems like a not-good precedent for artists/content creators and the future (much less present) of training data?

New comment by for1nner in "Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips"

for1nner — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:24:25 +0000

Unfortunately this appears to be a drop-in replacement - can't click "buy" on any of the M2 MBPs if you can even get to the model page.

New comment by for1nner in "Farm in Kenya to produce fossil-free fertilizer on site"

for1nner — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:05:21 +0000

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New comment by for1nner in "California's Governor Vetoes State Ban on Driverless Trucks"

for1nner — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 06:07:33 +0000

(edit for clarity: I'm ignoring the reality of current self-driving tech/safety for the sake of the philosophical argument) it's cheaper and faster to fire truck drivers and then hire the folks who can run the dispatch/diag/driving software - even if (philosophically) we should want to redirect drivers' skills/experience and retrain them, there's no economic incentive. So, utterly reasonably, unions and labor organizations and the general public push back against wanton job cuts and firings-due-to-obsolescence (though this is not an america-unique problem). I think largely as a species we've yet to crack the code on "hey this wave of tech is going to make X obsolete, maybe we should account for the folks doing X" - certainly one of the weak spots of free market capitalism.

New comment by for1nner in "Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla"

for1nner — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:27:09 +0000

Mazda always refused to go fully touchscreen.

Instead they have somehow rationalized that a control wheel and featureless buttons down in the center console are safer for people to use while the vehicle is active.

It's idiotic.

New comment by for1nner in "CT scans of coffee-making equipment"

for1nner — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:21:46 +0000

> Compared to flat burrs, conical burrs also create a more uniform particle size distribution, reducing the potential for clogs and jams

Well this is just...not true. Porlex musta sold them pretty hard on Conicals.

New comment by for1nner in "Weight-based motor vehicle tax"

for1nner — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:21:07 +0000

several states (HI, CA, OR off the top of my head) have trialed mileage-based fees.

The problem becomes convincing anyone there's political credit to be gained by implementing/overhauling those systems. I suspect it will take as-long-as-it-possibly-can for those and bureaucratic reasons (contracts/pilots/implementation of those systems).

New comment by for1nner in "TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken"

for1nner — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:32:38 +0000

then you may simply prefer https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html