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chishakuon Single dependency stacks

What other examples are there of "single dependency stacks"?

This article is really about the versatility and reliability of postgres.

And I'm all in agreement.

Reminiscent of:

https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2017/04/30/why-postgres-five-...

https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/

http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...

http://boringtechnology.club/

As much as HN could lead you astray with the hype of this and that tech, articles like the above are some of the most consistently upvoted on this website.

chishakuon Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

Check out mermaid [0] for plain text diagramming that's easily version controlled.

It's also natively rendered in obsidian [1] without any plugins.

Not affiliated, just very happy with this plain text and local workflow.

[0]: https://mermaid-js.github.io [1]: https://obsidian.md/

chishakuon Databases in 2021: A Year in Review

Which db is that?

Either way, that’s not happening.

chishakuon Show HN: Code Hike – More than syntax highlighting

I think the feedback loop would be much faster with Code Hike.

chishakuon Germany will legalize marijuana and promote drug harm reduction

No.

There is precedent in various US states and a handful of countries.

Cost benefit analysis of what is actually happening in these places is a key motivator for the continued wave of legalization around the world.

This is much studied.

DYOR but here's a start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=portugal+drug+policy&hl...

Also, I'm not sure if you literally mean "a few orders of magnitude" or are using that phrase to simply mean "an increase".

chishakuon The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto

> I bet nearly no one who buys crypto even knows what fiat money is

You're uninformed.

GS, BofA, Barclays, Citi, CS, DB, JPM, MS, UBS, WF and countless funds.

The current hype cycle would be nothing without the institutional support.

But even before institutional investors started jumping in, traders and other employees of the above institutions have long been a key part of crypto markets.

chishakuon The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto

The market aside from crypto is not rational.

The market we have today would be completely unimaginable to "traditional" market participants 12 years ago, 24 years ago and so on.

The myth of a rational market is a powerful one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put

https://www.ft.com/content/9f7f32af-a71a-4892-b331-324aa14ff...

chishakuon The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto

> It’s a scary but essential truth to realise that normal software engineers like us are an integral part of society’s immune system against the enormous moral hazard of technology-hyped asset bubbles metastasizing into systemic risk.

Myopic and uninformed.

Pretend crypto doesn't exist and you still have a market rife with moral hazard and technology-hyped asset bubbles that metastasize into systemic risk to the point of bringing down the real economy in increasingly shorter crash cycles.

Is crypto a cause or a symptom?

chishakuon Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?

Other than Rails, what do people use Ruby for?

chishakuon Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

It’s not perfect but it did take me about 5 minutes to resolve when I created 3 clones of my main vault.

The main issue was changing the relative path references to the templates and and assets directories.

chishakuon Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

Everything changes when you ditch the network and store the database locally (markdown files and json metadata).

I used Notion for years before Obsidian and the speed alone is a reason to never go back.

On a related note, I also consider Linear to be quite fast and responsive especially when you learn the keyboard shortcuts. And to achieve that responsiveness, they load the whole database (or deltas) at startup.

chishakuon Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python

Being weird isn’t sufficient evidence for being worse which is what you seem to be arguing.

Why is having to name a function doing more harm than good?

Your second paragraph is a straw man.

chishakuon My approach to taking notes in meetings

listening != hearing + transcribing

chishakuon What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?

Spoiler alert: they don't argue what's best.

Very weak evidence offered but the motivation behind the article was near the top.

"They also appeal to more ideological voters—especially on the left—by arguing that they can express their views with more precision in a ranked-choice system."

chishakuon One week of Libera Chat

Is irc the primary means of communication for all these projects?

chishakuon Moore's Law for Everything

> emotionally guided

> move forward

What do you mean by these phrases?

Can you elaborate on your framework for value?

chishakuon Twitter's Dorsey auctions first ever tweet as digital memorabilia

Completely aside from NFTs and any details of this specific asset, cash needs a return and will follow the prospect of it anywhere.

We’re in an everything bubble and the recent investment/attention boom for NFTs is not surprising.

chishakuon Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

Back in my day...

This comment thread is in its own category of low quality discussion.

Negativity bias prevents you from seeing that 95% of the homepage right now is technical/nerdy with a lot of high quality corresponding discussion.

When political/social issues hit the homepage, they often slide off quickly if the corresponding discussion is of low quality (has many downvoted comments).

HN is certainly not perfect but just focusing on the parts you don't like prevents you from seeing the bigger picture.

chishakuon Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

> But it's noise not disturbing a good signal.

The signal will always be weak early on.

Look at the comments now and it's clear that the upvote/downvote mechanisms are working sufficiently to address your concern.

This should not be surprising. It's typically faster to not read the article and spew superficial off-topic comments than to write on-topic, substantive, and technical comments.

chishakuon UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

To your point, the FBI memo referenced in the article specifically differentiates the new counterintelligence program focused on civil rights groups from the pre-existing program focused on communist groups.

chishakuon UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

> As instructed and directed by Mayor Wilson Goode.

Do you have a source?

While taking responsibility, he always claimed he wasn't part of planning the specifics. FWIW I'm skeptical.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/10/when-i...

chishakuon UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

I interpreted "platform to push..." differently than the "topic touches on...".

But I agree we don't need a political battle here. Thank you dang.

chishakuon UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

> HN shouldn't be used as a platform to push racially charged politics.

Surveillance is a staple topic of HN.

Can you explain how posting this article amounts to someone using "HN... as a platform to push racially charged politics"?

chishakuon UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

The willful ignorance of what the government does in its citizens' names is sad.

chishakuon Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future

> the only way to resolve a cultural difference

Can you explain your theory in the context of the American West “frontier”?