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by ibejoeb | 2025-04-01 04:52:52+00:00
Kinda feel like this is tariff bait, but, regardless...

The article seems to do a pretty good job of telling the story. It's not terribly interesting. The big consortium of Mexican avocado growers made a giant push probably around 2015-2016 and dumped a ton of money into American and Canadian markets to sell avocados. It makes sense. California can grow them just fine, but so can Mexico.

I think the more interesting aspect is that, considering how resource intensive they are, it might even be a legitimate good trade case, especially considering the size of the American/Canadian buying population versus the contention in viable domestic production area. This could be (or, really, has been) a very happy arrangement.

I worked on some agave projects around the same time, so I watched on the sidelines while this was going on and knew some people working on the Avocados from Mexico brand. That part was pretty interesting, too, because it was a state-level initiative.
by strogonoff | 2025-04-01 04:53:18+00:00
Sensitivity to stimuli behind orienting impulse varies by individual and I wish I was less sensitive on daily basis.

These days screen brightness goes pretty high and it is unbelievable how many people seem to never use their screen (phone or laptop) on anything less than 100% brightness in any situation and are seemingly not bothered by flickering bright light or noise sources.

I am nostalgic about old laptops’ dim LCD screens that I saw a few times as a kid, they did not flicker much and had a narrow angle of view. I suspect they would even be fine in a darkened classroom.
by jwiz | 2025-04-01 04:53:52+00:00
The people who tout "you can pause it" as an advantage of home theater are just not consuming movies the way I consume movies.

If you are in the theatre, no one is going to talk to you about the movie, or comment on it for no reason, etc.

I still regret pausing Lost Highway (like 25 years ago) so we could go out and smoke a cigarette. It completely broke the spell and the movie just wasn't the same from then on.
by _kst_ | 2025-04-01 04:53:53+00:00
The study is based on 263 galaxies.

It should be fairly easy to determine the rotation direction of any (spiral) galaxy we can see, based on reasonable assumptions about the relationship between rotation and the configuration of the spiral arms. There should be thousands or millions of visible galaxies for which this could be determined (out of the estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe). Perhaps I'm missing something, but why bother reporting a result from such a tiny sample?

It should also be possible to derive more detailed information that just clockwise vs. counter-clockwise. The rotation of a galaxy defines a direction (the galaxy's rotational north pole) and a point on the surface of an imaginary sphere. This could be determined by the galaxy's apparent rotational direction, its orientation, and its position in the sky. It would be interesting to see a plot of those points. In principle, they should be random. (If the points spell out "Go stick your head in a pig", I'll be very sorry that Douglas Adams didn't live to see it.)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-01 04:54:04+00:00
Note that Texas is currently attempting, through legislation, to disadvantage solar and batteries and attempt to financially support fossil gas [1]. Also note that the US domestic fossil gas market is now exposed to global price movement due to LNG exports, which will cause the cost of producing power from fossil gas to rise [2]. Could Texas use cheap solar to desal? If Texas had different politicians, perhaps.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501255

[2] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/us-lng-exports-raise-electr...
by poisonborz | 2025-04-01 04:54:25+00:00
I shared the sentiment of this thread for a long time - have a nice setup at home and love to pause/rewind - but started to visit a small cinema as part of a club, to watch new and canvas-worthy flicks like Nosferatu and Brutalist. Regular hall with no fancy tech. It was a transformative experience, 20-30 fellow movie lovers, diverse of all ages. Smell of popcorn, you can turn and exchange a few commentary sentences (if you're the type), the grasps of people during a scene, the sense of leaving while credits roll and hasty deep discourses in the atrium.

I kinda got those remarks from Coppola and Tarantino that I found of "old man yelling at cloud" category before.

The big global business behind it surely is dead - for non-blockbuster genres - but I can't imagine the culture behind it going for a long time. It's the societal standard to enjoy this genre, and a tradition the streaming industry builds upon and uses, there is nothing else. The above flicks had minimal budget in terms of Hollywood. Cinema is here to stay.
by e3bc54b2 | 2025-04-01 04:55:18+00:00
> no one actually likes to write code

between this and..

> But everyone is trying to write less code by themselves with the proliferation of reusable code, libraries, framework, code generators, metaprogramming

.. this, is a massive gap. Personally speaking, I hate writing boilerplate code, y'know, old school Java with design patterns getter/setter, redundant multi-layer catch blocks, stateful for loops etc. That gets on my nerves, because it increases my work for little benefits. Cue modern coding practices and I'm almost exclusively thinking how to design solution to the problem at hand, and almost all the code is business logic exclusive.

This is where a lot of LLMs just fail. Handholding them all the way to correct solution feels like writing boilerplate again, except worse because I don't know when I'll be done. It doesn't help that most code available for LLMs is JS/TS/Java where boilerplate galore, but somehow I doubt giving them exclusively good codebases will help.
by Gud | 2025-04-01 04:55:40+00:00
What tools are missing from FreeBSD?

Regarding your example with "eth0:0" Is not how you do things in FreeBSD. There is no "eth0" at all.

You use ifconfig xy0 alias. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&apropos=0...
by bookaway | 2025-04-01 04:56:00+00:00
>Netflix is what you put on while you are doing other things.

Yeah, I watch all films I consider worth seeing in the theater frankly. I rarely have nightmarishly disruptive movie going experiences. Any disruptions are minuscule compared to the infinite attention distractions at home or on any viewing portal connected to the internet.

And sometimes I go specifically for the rowdy crowd experience. For example, watching Grand Theft Hamlet with a appreciative (and somewhat drunk) rowdy crowd in the theater was fucking fantastic. Ironically, someone in Riot Games, the company that decided to stream Arcane on Netflix, also knew this very well when they rented movie theaters across the world and had screening events ahead of official Netflix release dates for episodes from the the latest Arcane season -- for an audience mostly composed of ballistic League of Legend cosplaying gen Zs and alphas.
by scoofy | 2025-04-01 04:56:04+00:00
I assure you we are kindred spirits. I started writing about golf as someone who was just a bit embarrassed to like golf because nobody was writing about golf from a skeptical position.

My blogs name is “Wigs on the Green” because that’s and archaic term for a fistfight, and I wasn’t to write like I was willing to burn every bridge if I thought it was good for golf, environmentalism, and the culture.

I learned on muni’s and went to graduate school in Scotland where I learned the snooty aspects of golf are almost exclusively a North American phenomena.
by neom | 2025-04-01 04:56:44+00:00
That first website is quite amusing to someone not in avacados...

"HAPRIO IMPACT The Hass Avocado Promotion, Research and Information Order (HAPRIO) created the Hass Avocado Board (HAB), an industry-funded national program that has been recognized for being key to growing U.S. avocado consumption and driving value for producers and importers since its inception in 2002."

sounds like an apache project.
by 112233 | 2025-04-01 04:56:54+00:00
Thank you for these references. It is how you say, and, for c++ would involve handling 16 bit "int", char larger than 8 bits and in the case of pre-20 compilers you cannot even assume two's compliment.

I am sure such correct code can be written, but expecting everyone to play along with standard and ignore that 100% of existing compilers have much saner behaviour, might be very difficult.
by kin | 2025-04-01 04:57:40+00:00
Actually if you check wayback they've been telling us straight up since 2016 they make money off of commissions. https://web.archive.org/web/20180125135216/http://help.joinh...

Affiliate attribution wasn't explained in full but MegaLag with all his research still didn't accurately explain it since it's pretty complex. The user doesn't need to know this.

Doesn't make sense to explain all the nuts and bolts if it works the same way any other coupon website would.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-01 04:58:07+00:00
> I'm not going to hold my breath.

The snark and pessimism nerd-sniped me :)

I've used AI heavily to maintain a cross-platform wrapper around llama.cpp. I figure its worth a shot.

I took a look and wanted to try but hit several hard blocks right away.

- There is no gtk-4 branch :o (presuming branch = git branch...Perhaps this is some project-specific terminology for a set of flags or something, and that's why I can't find it?)

- There's some indicators it is blocked by wxWidgets requiring GTK-4 support, which sounds much larger scope than advertised -- am I misunderstanding?
by t-writescode | 2025-04-01 04:58:29+00:00
At some point, sure; but there is always value in comprehending why someone might find an existing flow overly obtuse and/or frustrating when they "just want to do a simple thing".

To imagine otherwise reminds me of The Infamous Dropbox Comment.

Addendum: to wit, whole companies, like SquareSpace and Wix, exist because web dev is a pain and WYSWIG editors help a lot
by scarab92 | 2025-04-01 04:58:43+00:00
I’m not sure that it’s ownership is the reason for The Guardians success. NYT has also been successful with a more traditional ownership model.

Their success, I suspect, is due to being early to shift from addressing a particular geographic market, to addressing an ideological market, after the internet destroyed the geographical barriers to entry.

I suspect this internet driven incentive to focus on ideological markets is a big part of why politics in most countries has become so partisan. When newspapers focused on a particular geography, but had limited completion, they had an incentive to avoid becoming partisan because that would only serve to limit their addressable market.
by setr | 2025-04-01 05:00:08+00:00
No I get that; video games are just my medium of choice. The problem I was trying to get at is these arguments and perceptions usually stem from the degenerate cases, which only get worse the further in time you go, but I don’t think it’s really due to the technology itself. You have the same braindead systems appear in any medium of entertainment — there are definitely systems of total waste in sports, physical play (I’ve yet to encounter anything so degenerate as balltapping — and that shit spreads rapidly once it starts), literature, etc.

It can hardly be said that a studio ghibli flick stunted the imagination of children worldwide but I would definitely believe it if you suggested cocomelon rotted the brains directly out of their skulls

I think it’s also worth noting that kids have a shitload of time. They can engage in both technologies and physical play and other activities simultaneously; the problem occurs when singular or few activities overwhelmingly consume that time — which is why I claim the unbounded timesinks can be catastrophic — and what I think most people are worried about when they blanket-ban whole systems/mediums
by aurareturn | 2025-04-01 05:00:56+00:00
I think changing the word from "execute" to "inference" is even clearer to be honest. Though it's much better than the original word choice.

Because they think LLM and ChatGPT are synonymous.

I still find it weird. 99.9999% of NPCs in video games are not LLMs. So why would people ask that question?
by ibejoeb | 2025-04-01 05:01:36+00:00
You hit on it. This is something that (small cohort of) American farmers can do domestically, but at a higher level, we ought to determine if it's better to do that or to have a trade arrangement. I really believe that Mexican avocados is a win/win. It frees up California farmers to produce more essential resources, and it gives Mexico a very viable export. I really like this as a study of healthy trade.
by ketau | 2025-04-01 05:01:51+00:00
Probably too complex to explain here but tldr; every cash back program is built on top of the affiliate marketing rails since Ebates started it in 1998. Same for coupon websites since those came along.

It is a system design flaw (that maybe will self correct because of this) that multiple advertising models at different points in the value chain are built on the same system. 'Multi-touch' or 'any-click' are the correct direction to solve this problem but introduce their own challenges for retailers which is why most of them have not adopted these systems yet.

You ask "what exactly is Honey doing here?"

Short answer is helping the retailer with conversion and limiting cart abandonment by making the user happy and more likely to transact.
by wruza | 2025-04-01 05:02:16+00:00
Why do you think this is only a meme? Flow modes, centering methods and content are still at odds with each other and don't generalize. This idiotic model cannot get it right unless you're designing for a very specific case that will shatter as soon as you bump its shoulder.

Edit: I've been in the AI CSS BS loop just a few days ago, not sure how you guys miss it. I start screaming f-'s and "are you an idiot" when it cycles through "doesn't work", "ignored prereqs" and "doesn't make sense at all".
by decimalenough | 2025-04-01 05:03:29+00:00
The crypto billionaire "commander" is an interesting character: "Wang was born in China but lives primarily in Svalbard and since 2023 is also a citizen of Malta and Saint Kitts and Nevis through their golden visa programs. Wang will be in command of the mission, [vehicle commander] Mikkelsen will be in command of the spacecraft with the traditional operating duties given to a typical NASA commander."
by BoorishBears | 2025-04-01 05:03:32+00:00
I mentioned that:

> You could have even made the default theme shadcn-like to satisfy all the people lying to themselves that one day they'll actually modify that ui folder.

That's why shadcn is so terrible: you're resorting to diffs and a loose convention instead of a stable API and a package manager, for the promise that one day you can definitely probably modify it into something else... yet if you're the kind of person to start with shadcn/ui instead of Radix, you shouldn't be modding components in the first place.

Even if you get real designers later, they're not going to try and "evolve" shadcn into your brand, they're going to start from scratch and you're back at Radix again.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-01 05:04:26+00:00
“A short 2.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first-stage booster shut down its nine Merlin engines, executed stage separation from the rest of the rocket and performed a deceleration burn to put itself on a trajectory to land on SpaceX's Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean, which happened on schedule about 5.5 minutes later.”

Super cool!
by CartwheelLinux | 2025-04-01 05:05:32+00:00
github.com

/s

To add something constructive, think of how deamanding people can be in ordinary everday life.

Now think of how demanding they can be when something doesn't quite work how they want.

I've been on both sides of the fence being a demanding user myself and prolific contributor. I could write entire volumes on the cesspool that can be opensource contributing; obviously there's lots of good that comes with it too, good communities, good people.

But open source is an ecosystem like any other really, there are cesspools of obnoxiousness, toxic behavior, and also havens of really insightful and friendly people.
by laborcontract | 2025-04-01 05:05:59+00:00
The following links here are a good place to start.

Elliott's activist letter to Samsung: http://sevalueproposals.com/assets/downloads/SEC-Press-Relea...

Elliott's presentation: http://sevalueproposals.com/assets/downloads/SEC-Presentatio...

Elliott famously disapproved of the Samsung C&T merger, which ultimately went through. The Korean media demonized Elliott for trying to reform the company. It was an eye-opening experience seeing how Samsung effectively captured Korea both politically and through the media.

McKinsey Report (ctrl-f: "korea discount") https://www.mckinsey.com/kr/~/media/mckinsey/locations/asia/...

Bloomberg report on the Korea discount: https://archive.md/eBJdl

FT Report about cross shareholding: https://archive.md/eYXGM

For all claims of Korea's dynamism, it's still seen as investment rat poison and it's telling that it's still considered an "emerging market" by MSCI. Public markets aside, SK's venture capital scene is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent.
by ars | 2025-04-01 05:07:46+00:00
"Congress established a federal program in the early 2000s that collects a few pennies for every pound of fresh Hass avocados sold in the U.S., whether they were grown domestically or imported."

I'm not OK with this. I know the amount is tiny, but it's the principle of the thing, the US government should not be in the business of promoting stuff like this. That an inappropriate use of government.
by psunavy03 | 2025-04-01 05:07:49+00:00
See how the goalposts now move from "arms manufacturer in general" to "I don't agree with US foreign policy."

And even assuming that's true for the sake of argument, what? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, et al. are just supposed to shut down for good the moment one politician makes a morally questionable decision? Life is not that black and white.
by aledalgrande | 2025-04-01 05:08:08+00:00
> Unless these tools can be run locally independent of a service provider, we're just trading one boss for another.

Not only that, we have to be careful about all the integrations being built around it. Thankfully the MCP standard is becoming mainstream (used by Anthropic, OpenAI and next could be Google) and it's an open standard, even if started by Anthropic so we won't have e.g. Anthropic specific integrations.
by pests | 2025-04-01 05:08:43+00:00
I have no issue with "consent or pay".

They have to pay the bills somehow. The alternative to "consent or pay" is "pay". I'm really struggling to see how you feel its wrong.

I am actually having difficulty writing this, as "consent to share your data" is ultimately a way to track and collect data on you. But what can you do? They are offering you something which takes time and money to produce. You can pay for it with money or with your data.

Isn't this choice better than companies just always tracking you, and also trying to get you to buy something?

Deep down I know most people don't understand the amount of data and other information companies collect on them nor what they do with it. But at a certain point we have autonomy. I'd rather be given a choice between "we track all your data" or you can pay verses the default of tracking all data and paying. There is always the third option of not consuming the content. The choices we make.
by csomar | 2025-04-01 05:09:14+00:00
You are just confused because you bought the democracy fairy tale. There is no "real" democracy. There are nation states and in this case it is the French nation state. Politicians come and go but the state (also known for some reason as the deep state) made of bureaucrats, military personal, intelligence, etc... are not going to let some random dude rule over the country just because he got 50%+ of the population electing him. That's the pipe dream of democracy but not the reality.
by rrr_oh_man | 2025-04-01 05:10:52+00:00
> Up front, McPherson struts with coil springs and a stabilizer bar provide decent handling, while at the rear, a semi-rigid axle with torsion bars and hydraulic shocks prioritizes comfort over sporty roadholding—a compromise criticized against the Citroën CX’s independent suspension or the Germans’ stiffer setups

That read a bit like John Lakeman's piping speech. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-IHvF5OCA)

The text itself, unfortunately, is clearly written by (an older version of) Chatgpt
by roenxi | 2025-04-01 05:11:19+00:00
> Wait... so you effectively said "there's no holocaust going on"

I said the opposite, there are literally multiple genocides going on. They make a fair bit of noise. There is lots of evidence of them if you care to look. They all have well sourced Wikipedia pages.

It isn't possible to wipe out a people and not have others quickly notice what is going on.
by Scipio_Afri | 2025-04-01 05:11:30+00:00
"He is asking the court to order the Trump administration to ask for Abrego Garcia’s return and, if necessary, to withhold payment to the Salvadoran government, which says it’s charging the United States $6 million a year to jail U.S. deportees."

$6 MILLION A YEAR?! For how many deportees?

>Abrego Garcia’s family has had no contact with him since he was sent to the megaprison in El Salvador, known as the CECOT. His wife spotted her husband in news photographs released by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on the morning of March 16, after a U.S. District Judge had told the Trump administration to halt the flights.

>“Oopsie,” Bukele wrote on social media, taunting the judge.

The El Salvadoran president sounds more like a dictatorial sociopath..
by senectus1 | 2025-04-01 05:14:10+00:00
assuming they start planting trees NOW. it takes approx 4-5 years for a grafted avocado tree to start bearing fruit.

of all the Tariff hit products this is probably the fastest of any of them to do what a Tariff is meant to do... Make the product attractive enough to produce locally unattractive to import.

if growers trust that Trump is consistent and reliable enough to stick to his guns around tariffs (and he hasnt been to date, so thats a real leap of faith), then Avocados will be one of the first products that we'll see the effect of his Tariffs paying dividends to america.

most the other industries and products take a lot longer than 4-5 years to "flip the switch" and start producing locally in numbers large enough to counter the imported numbers.

I haven't seen him do much to bolster that industry other than the tariff... so it may never kick off. What might happen is the "Fad" for avo products might just die off and by 4-5 years comes around it might not be a product in demand anymore.

Edit: oh also, 25% tariff might not BE ENOUGH of a price increase to affect the import numbers at all as well... its hard to know what the final straw is, in the consumer space. They can be fickle buggers.