Why would they give you access to that information?
We provide tools to manage their inventory, better sales reporting than what most POSs provide, marketing tools, etc.
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sv123 commented on Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird 420.headset.io... · Posted by u/sv123
> Is there a law mandating realtime reporting, or something
Not real time in WA, but all records are public and reported fairly consistently. See https://www.topshelfdata.com for an example of that.
> or are there just limited number of POS providers and they all have realtime API(s)?
This is Headset who is probably the largest retail POS provider (amongst other offerings on the producer/processor side and more) for legal marijuana sales. I'm assuming the data presented here is exclusively from their POS platform. I don't know of any public sources for real time sales data.
> I bet the dashboard doesn't have Johnny from my street corner's transaction...
Yes I'd also bet Johnny doesn't report his sales to a central database/platform.
Headset isn't a POS, we integrate with essentially all of the POS providers. At the bottom of the page there is a list with sales represented.
sv123 commented on Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird 420.headset.io... · Posted by u/sv123
Hello OP, do you work for sales? So much bluster in your site but so little substance in this answer.
Is there a law mandating realtime reporting, or something, or are there just limited number of POS providers and they all have realtime API(s)?
I bet the dashboard doesn't have Johnny from my street corner's transaction...
Not sure what more substance you need, we integrate with close to 30 different POS providers, that's it. There is no law mandating realtime reporting. Every transaction from thousands of retailers is represented... What more do you want to know?
sv123 commented on Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird 420.headset.io... · Posted by u/sv123
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.
Concentrates make up a small percentage of total sales as you can see on the category chart. A certain number of consumers will have trouble regulating consumption, but that is true with many things like alcohol, nicotine, cheeseburgers. I don't think going back to the prohibition era of alcohol is quite the solution.
sv123 commented on Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird 420.headset.io... · Posted by u/sv123
How did you get access to the data?
Point of sale APIs.
sv123 commented on Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird 420.headset.io... · Posted by u/sv123
> As with all of these agencies, I think it's important to caution against complete slash and burn, but I am also curious to see the receipts. Post the data and let me decide for myself.
https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-commerce?fy...
Here you go, the data is of course available because that is what our laws require. They are under the Department of Commerce, which in total makes up less than 2% of the annual budget. If your argument is that NOAA is running on old infrastructure, then a modernization project should be prioritized, but that is _certainly_ not a way to save money.
Why should a government agency "fully commercialize its forecasting operations"?
Because some morons think everything needs to be a business. We can't possibly be spending money on something unless it is generating money back, ignoring the fact that it is providing a service to make our lives better.