[HN Gopher] Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard usi...
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Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and
Tinybird
Built this dashboard to visualize cannabis sales in real time
across North America during 4/20. The data updates live from
thousands of dispensary POS transactions as the day unfolds. Under
the hood, we're using Estuary for data streaming and Tinybird to
power super fast analytical queries. The charts are made in Tremor
and the map is D3.
Author : sv123
Score : 19 points
Date : 2025-04-20 19:03 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (420.headset.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (420.headset.io)
| verdverm wrote:
| Cool map, I'd speed it up a bit though
|
| FYI, the time displays are a bit off. The time box seems correct.
| The time slider is off. The animation goes beyond the last time.
| Up to you if the slider stops in the middle, or goes to 100%
| which becomes larger as the day progresses
| MisterTea wrote:
| > I'd speed it up a bit though
|
| Clearly not partaking in 420 ;-)
| ivape wrote:
| Walk-in sales indicate these stores are _everywhere_. It 's kind
| of scary to be honest.
| sv123 wrote:
| What is the scary part?
| ivape wrote:
| It's high potency THC with things like live resin to get you
| even higher. It's marketed casually like alcohol. Teens and
| new adults casually getting into this stuff will have issues
| especially if they are predisposed to a variety of mental
| issues. The same is true for people who are depressed and use
| alcohol to "chill out", it's never ends well. We as a society
| don't have any clue when we roll out these "new features" on
| every corner. Same with anything, same with video games, same
| with social media. Your seven year old is addicted to tiktok,
| imagine that. Your 15 year old can't turn the fucking video
| games off. Your 25 year old can't put Instagram down. I'm not
| even talking about the whole class of drug addicts. Now
| imagine being addicted to all fucking 5 of those things? Then
| you get the 30 year old in therapy.
|
| I would personally limit the number of purchases like we do
| Pseudoephedrine, and if you need more, get a medical
| prescription. We'll probably realize this in about 20 years,
| like we are finally realizing about social media. Social
| media needs to be 18+, like porn sites. Took us 20 years, but
| many places are doing it. We never have a serious discussion
| about _anything_ when we roll it out. Alcohol on every corner
| and supermarket was one of the stupidest things we ever did.
| Rodeoclash wrote:
| I think of it as an equivalent to drinking alcohol. If
| someone is "waking and baking" every day then they have a
| substance abuse problem just as if they were waking up and
| driving half a bottle of scotch.
| MisterTea wrote:
| > We don't have a clue as a society yet.
|
| Yes we do. Drugs are not new. We're tired of prohibition
| and the needless human suffering it has bought about. It
| has not and will never work. The answer is education and
| mental health services. Not treating the public like
| children.
| ivape wrote:
| I won't fight you on this. I just need a few people here
| to testify that, no, we actually don't have a fucking
| clue. I cannot tell you why all the kids are addicted to
| every digital thing imaginable, other than, it's highly
| accessible and marketed like-so. What extra education and
| social services is going to stop it? Now you want to
| introduce another substance alongside Alcohol on every
| corner. We literally need limitations. Someone else get
| my back here.
|
| I vape dude, my "peers" are teenagers. I'm an adult, and
| every kid I see vapes. Now I actually regret picking this
| stupid username because I never actually stopped to think
| that HN has young people here. Now that I think about it,
| I had a convo with some college kid inquiring about
| Nicotine patches from me on Discord because I kinda
| mentioned I was trying to stop vaping lol. What the hell
| is going on out there? They are literally into every bad
| thing, and we just kinda go like "well the adults need it
| 24/7 so no rules".
|
| When you mix alcohol and thc, it's a full drug cocktail.
| It takes nothing but a brisk 5 minute walk to get both in
| a major city.
| accrual wrote:
| > I cannot tell you why all the kids are addicted to
| every digital thing imaginable
|
| "They speak of my drinking but not of my thirst"
|
| I think it's important to have safeguards around
| substances like alcohol and THC, age restrictions,
| education, etc. But we also should think about _why_
| people turn to these things. If kids are vaping and
| spending hours scrolling on social media, maybe we should
| assess what can be done to bring their attention away
| from those things and towards activities, third spaces,
| and offer non-substance ways to alleviate stress and
| anxiety. Some of these things are available, but perhaps
| not in the ratio required to make a dent in the substance
| /media usage.
| ujkiolp wrote:
| ok grampa
| accrual wrote:
| Post substantially, please
| MisterTea wrote:
| The irony is my hippie uncle hates how legalization took away a
| lot of the culture surrounding weed in terms of bonding over
| the illegally and cooperatively hiding each others "bad
| habits."
| LightBug1 wrote:
| Cool analysis ... but 420 has been made so cringe now ...
| accrual wrote:
| Could you elaborate on what you mean?
| Babkock wrote:
| Cannabis?? Such a racy controversial topic... I don't know if I
| can talk about... Marry wanna... the debble's lettuce
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