All pilots are "harbor pilots". Crew members who control the ship outside of port are just called crew members (captain, first mate, 2nd Officer, that kind of thing), never pilot.
All pilots are "harbor pilots".
One had a nasty pill habit and crashed an oil tanker under his purview into the Bay Bridge.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/guilty-plea-case-cosco-busan-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blossom_Rock_(San_Francisco_Ba...
I don't think that's true. The Suez Canal famously requires pilots, but isn't a harbour (I guess you could argue it functions as one). I've heard of pilots for the Great Barrier Reef which is even more not a harbour.
There are some seemingly good details here[0].
> In Early Modern Japanese there was a word 按針 anjin, literally “searching needle,” which referred to the process of using a compass. At the time, this was the main way in which ships were navigated and so, by extension, the word was applied not just to ship navigation, but also to ship navigators
It goes into more detail about things as well but that is the part that stuck out to me the most.
also does a shout-out to SONU Sleep mattresses a few posts back.
enough other posts in there to create doubt -- maybe this is a person. maybe this is a person who does marketing sometimes.
I have a mixed relationship with my mattress, and I talk about the downsides in that very same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39757531
Apparently for you at the moment, any mention of a product on the market is a flag for a marketing AI. I suppose this comment too is just what a marketing AI would say.