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Ask HN: Inventory Management Software Stack for Small Businesses?
I apologize if this isn't the typical question here, but I figure at least some people on here have side hustles or are aware of companies doing cool things in this space. Please feel free to redirect or remove if there is a better place for this question.

Basically, a friend of mine has an import/export business reselling various items. Everything they do is manual right now, but the general business flow:

- Customers submit orders via some app

- Payments are processed manually via bank details

- Inventory is manually tracked, shipped overseas via some carrier (that does not provide tracking) and then delivered last mile to customers

- There are two types of inventory: in stock items (have it ready to ship) and pre-order only. Pre-order items are ordered from vendors only after customers place an order.

What I'm looking for:

- Some way to scan barcodes, and get item information (I'm aware scanners exist, but the integrations are what would make this valuable, and something I am having a hard time understanding)

- Scanning would ideally establish inventory. The inventory could then be linked to this third party shop.

- Inventory should be able to have certain statuses (e.g. if scanned by person x, it means it's in Country X, if scanned by person y, it means it's in Country Y)

- It would be great to track (even with manual edits) how much was paid for each item, and how much it sold for.

- Inventory audits should be possible (via barcodes)

Things to keep in mind:

- This is an international business, so anything centered around the US would be a no go.

- Inventory comes from a wide range of sources, and the same items are rarely kept in stock for long. So anything that centers on having some core items that are periodically "reordered" when inventory is low would be low value add.

- It seems like a lot of these functions are handled by separate businesses, and many of them want very expensive annual subscriptions. This is a <$100k/year revenue business right now, so most of these more expensive ones are out of the question. I think this business does have the potential to grow to ~500k+/year revenue with stronger automation.

- It seems like many of these also require huge learning curve to use.

I want to help my friend with their business. I am an experienced software engineer, so throwing together some automation as needed is not a big challenge, but I would rather buy something affordable off the shelf if it exists to minimize complexity/avoid becoming a bottleneck to their business if something goes wrong.

If you were in this position, what tools would you use? What might you build custom?
Project Oberon is amazing. Shame it isn't more popular.
Twice? For me YT Premium is cheaper than even the cheapest Neflix plan, same for Disney and HBO, only Apple TV is cheaper (barely).
It's actually the other way around - they already had the symbol X and that's why they became USX.

New York Times, July 9, 1986, on the founding of USX: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/09/business/us-steel-new-nam...

"Mr. Roderick explained that for months the company had considered more than 200 new names, ranging from U.S.S.A. and Amcor to Maxus. U.S.X. was selected, he said, because ''it had a continuity from the U.S. part.'' He added that X had been the company's symbol on the New York Stock Exchange since 1924. "

There's no obvious connection between X and US Steel - maybe somebody just thought X sounded cool?
The Tech Powering the Political TV Ad Archive (2016)
I think in the context of finance, "hyperstition" is more known as "reflexivity".
It is in many parts of the world.
I was interested I trying it out, downloaded it, run. It started with odd animation and then prompted me to sign up. The rationale was to "sync" (not interested) and bug reports (can submit data while doing it).

It feels worse than chrome while being obnoxious about supposedly being "groundbreaking"...

arc can go shaft itself
I just remap CapsLock to Super.

Built in function in Linux and macOS; on Windows, SharpKeys puts a dead easy GUI on the built-in Registry key.

Means I get rid of CapsLock, puts Super where Unix keyboards had Ctrl, and I keep Ctrl and Alt where they belong. Works well for me.

I mean, they lack a Right Super key (AKA menu key) and so on as well, but I have no need of anything else, TBH.
Wish it was that simple. Modern diets and mainstream diet guidelines are terrible for us, but going back to a hunter gatherer diet for everyone on earth isn’t all that realistic either.
As a hobby artist, for 3D modeling, besides the usual tools like C4D/Modo, I used to use Zbrush for almost anything, organic or hard surface modeling, combined with a wacom tablet. But I like the no subscription model, and always welcome a new program in the field!
Given batteries degrade a percent per year, that's unfortunate. I make a similar length trip, and I wanted to make it one way on a single charge.
Yes! Never in my career have I seen an organization do a good job of organizing institutional knowledge and making it easily available to employees. It'd be a huge benefit to many organizations to be able to ask questions of the collective text holdings.
We already have self-replicating scripts that can prove very hard to detect and destroy, even without the benefit of LLM-powered fuzzing and social engineering.
I have your mind set now. But it took me multiple painful lessons over the years until the learning stuck :-) Luckily I was much poorer back then or I would really be bummed right now.
For a modern switch option that is quiet but has a pleasant tactility, I've enjoyed using zilents. Get ready to open your wallet, though, because they definitely charge a premium for them: https://zealpc.net/products/zilent?variant=5894832291878
Can you give some details on the hardware? What was the image capture device?
In Re Social Media Adolescent Addiction PI/PL Litigation
The nazis, racists, TERFs, rapist pimps, and misogynists bother me. Claiming U+1d54f is a logo when Twitter has globe-spanning brand recognition is just an epic fuckup, but it's not offensive.
No disagreement, but it's also not going away any time soon.
this invoked a dusty memory of the back to the future II movie; the hover board was a Barbie branded one
Yes, but chernobyl produced a lot of useful electricity (at first)
Reminds me of the book “Other Minds”, where the author discusses consciousness in octopuses.
How much are we willing to pay to save people who are beyond saving?
Well I certainly come to HN because some people take the time to criticize.

Share the link when you are finished with your video it might interest me since with a quick perusal of the website I couldn't find anything on their SaaS model.
It would be interesting to see some stats on what you guys are see performance wise, how much storage the project takes up, and what framework you are using. Honestly you guys have a lot of head room for speed improvements.

Btw the server implementation I could find was archived?
It's a balance, for sure. It's great to get early feedback on both technical and product aspects of a project. But as you say, feedback can also kill the project if it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. Or it can be the support that keeps you going when you're thinking of giving up.
Streaming processing in Python :chef_kiss:
Consider me old-fashioned, but I prefer that legislation only pass if parliament approves it. This is an antidemocratic element of the French constitution.
When everything is a hyperlink, nothing is a hyperlink. You can trivially make every word a hyperlink by running a script which attaches the dictionary.com entry for each word. I would never click on those links, and never know if a link was legitimate. Instead of link quantity, you need link quality.

That seems like common sense, but most major wikipedia articles agree with the this piece's author more than me. When I open a big article, I would personally prefer it if 1/4 as much of the text is blue-underlined as what I find. Links should be used to bring the reader's attention to key information that is useful context but only expanded on elsewhere. Not any text that could be conceivably linked to some other random article. If I needed that, I would just manually search for the topic.

In a world of scarce and distinct links, my curiosity would draw me to click on many, and I would go down wormholes in the way tvtropes pulls of. But spammed fluff links are useless.
Same as Kent state, occupy Wall Street, Floyd protests

We accept it’s a police state and kowtow in between as due to recent experience we know the alternative is open violence
Nice work!

Reminds me of Manta https://github.com/hql287/Manta, which unfortunately has been abandoned 5 years ago.
> you don't have to give it the rules of the game

To be fair, it uses MCTS, which requires many simulations of the game. For this, it needs to know which moves are valid, and when a player wins or loses the game.

So it does need to know the rules of the game, but it doesn't need any prior knowledge about which moves are better than others.
We the people dont need to pay more taxes but the polluting companies should.
We the people should not keep doing the polluting companies favours by focusing on complaining about things like veggie burgers and paper straws. We should keep demanding real action.

If you think paper straws and tree planting is dumb and useless (which I can totally relate to), don’t use that to mock the whole enterprise but pressure all the politicians to resist the moneyed interests and take meaningful action.
Like a hot tub: Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees
Totally agree. This was a high priority goal for us and @maximilianroos did a lot of work putting something together. In the end, I believe it was really fighting against how dbt is set up though as it is so tightly interwoven with Jinja2. Perhaps with the introduction of the Python dbt models, things might have changed now and it's worth taking another look.

https://github.com/PRQL/dbt-prql

(Disclaimer: I'm a PRQL contributor.)
It's a red flag for a physics paper. It's a coffin for a mathematics paper.
The limitation of PRQL is that it only does SELECTs, by design. If you want to insert/update/delete data, you're back to SQL.

That means that your team's data scientist might give you a query written in PRQL, but if you want to actually incorporate it into the data pipeline, you'll need to translate it into SQL.

I wish that PRQL would support at least a limited ability to insert -- for example, maybe just the case of inserting into a new temp table. No update or ON CONFLICT logic to worry about. It could look like this:

from tracks
filter artist == "Bob Marley"
save bob_marley_tmp
Texas's attorney general has had been both state, and federally indicted for fraud for the past 8 years, and has successfully stalled the case, on the basis[1] that as long as he's a Republican politician, he can't get a fair trial.

He's only been impeached for it this year.

There is no oversight to be had in that kind of single-party state.

If you're wondering about what the end game of that sort of thing looks like, Putin's Russia laid out a roadmap for it.

[1] The actual mechanism with which he has done so is by not paying the prosecutors that were supposed to prosecute him. It's utterly insane - the criminals are literally running the courts.
It would be nice if they specified where the people they conducted this experiment on came from.
Is it 1 in 5 "healthy" people from the US? 1 in 5 "healthy" people worldwide? 1 in 5 "healthy" people from the Americas? And what does "American" mean in the context of the study?
It may seem petty, but I genuinely can't tell. By title I would think worldwide.
Yes Talk is awesome. I have a link on my personal web page to book a meeting with me based on availability on my multiple calendars. The person booking the meeting automatically gets a calendar invite by email with a Nextcloud Talk conference link.

I do have a lot of eggs in one basket with NC, but I have never had any issues. After running it for years, I am impressed with the rate of development of new features and apps. Whatever someone's experience was with it a year ago or so should be revisited with the latest version.
One catch would be the use of lead would restrict the use cases fairly heavily
Is the superconductivity present in the powder? Or does it require vapor deposition?

If the latter, it implies a cloth versus fibre topology, which forces an interesting rethink of many paradigms forced by the ductility of our present conductors.
A fellow man of culture.
I was in college in the mid 1990's. Our school had hundreds of Unix workstations from Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, and SGI. Everything was tied together with MIT's Project Athena which used the AFS Andrew File System, Kerberos, and the Zephyr instant messaging system.

Your home dir would be mounted as /school/login

The directory paths would be really long like /afs/school/math/maple/maple5.3 so there were 2 commands named add and attach to mount dirs to /school

add maple5.3 and you would have /school/maple5.3 and it would source .environment script in that dir to set up the tool and it /school/maple5.3/bin to your PATH

The attach command did the same thing but did NOT source the .environment file

If you needed to access another student's dir it was explicitly written in the intro computing class book to use attach and not add

I had a lot of scripts and utilities that friends would use. They told other random people that I didn't know.

So of course I made a file that would be updated any time I logged in showing my current machine name. Then I made a .environment file that would xhost + my_machine and send me a Zephyr message saying "I just added and xhosted your machine"

I would wait a few minutes and then run xflip and xmeltdown and set the -display to their machine. If they were in the same computer lab as me I would see them start to freak out. These programs basically froze your display for a few seconds while inverting the screen or causing everything to appear to melt to the bottom.

https://github.com/veltzer/xmeltdown

No real harm but it was pretty funny when I was 19
Oof, all right then. Perhaps there's room for improvement, but there would need to be a lot before this is useful/competitive even in lab settings.

For comparison, high temperature superconductors (in this context high temperature means tens of degrees kelvin) like the recently rather revolutionary ReBCO has critical current values measured in hundreds of thousands of amps per square centimeter. That would be a factor of a million.
> What kind of energy density could we get using it for energy storage?

Actually, not a lot. The are some very compelling uses of them for storing energy, but they are much more relevant for distribution grid stability and control than for raw energy storage.

There are people here are pushing some really non-compelling use cases (like long distance power distribution), but there are plenty of transformative ones.

(But the thing is that this one on the paper is much less useful than it could be. There is still some work on understanding why and fixing it.)
A federal judge in FL ruled against UFL for denying professors the ability to testify as experts in cases against the state. DeSantis of course has made attacking universities part of his anti-woke cultural jihad. TX and FL have been reading from the same authoritarian hymnal so its not surprising to see a similar situation play out.

It will be interesting to see what effect these kind of antics have on quality of higher ed in these states. I must think that there would be some effect on the quality of professors that get hired.

https://www.thefire.org/news/judge-university-florida-cant-e...
I guess those students have been put on notice, not to voice anything critical of party officials or their public policy.

> Less than two hours after the lecture ended, Patrick’s chief of staff had sent Sharp a link to Alonzo’s professional bio.

> Shortly after, Sharp sent a text directly to the lieutenant governor: “Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week.”

> [...]

> At 4:22 p.m., as Alonzo was learning that a controversy was brewing, a course coordinator sent an email to the entire class distancing UTMB from comments Alonzo allegedly made about Patrick. The subject line read, “STATEMENT OF FORMAL CENSURE.”

> “The statements made by the guest lecturer do not represent the opinion or position of the University of Texas Medical Branch, nor are they considered as core curriculum content for this course,” the email said.

> “UTMB does not support or condone these comments. We take these matters very seriously and wish to express our disapproval of the comment and apologize for harm it may have caused for members of our community,” the email continued. “We hereby issue a formal censure of these statements and will take steps to ensure that such behavior does not happen in the future.”
Complicated fakes wouldn't masquerade as scientific papers though. The FTL neutrino comes to mind, where it turned out to be a misconnected fiber optic cable - but everyone involved was genuine.

The bits and pieces of this certainly look like little are being genuine, so the new question is what non-obvious mistake could they be making?
Any reason to believe this isn't to restore demand at dealerships for existing production, and that they'll discontinue it again after inventory sells?
Android 4.4 KitKat was the first and only version of Android I ran as my phone OS. I ran it on an HTC One M7. I really liked the OS, the comparison with XP feels right as it was super solid and supported for such a long time. I had a folder full of custom ROMs, TWRP, unlock .bins, splash screens, notes, tools, and backups. The phone was great hardware except for the "purple camera photos" bug that was never fixed.

I'll miss it. It's difficult to delete the folder today even though I know I'll never use it again.
A hands-on tutorial covering how you can combine and leverage the open-source streaming solution, bytewax, with ydata-profiling, to improve the quality of your streaming flows!
> you can love and care for your friends, you don’t have a family with them.

I'm not so sure. My set of friends have been friends for over 35 years. We're as much family as our blood relations, in pretty much every way I can think of.
Xpounds. And I'm sure Musk would love the puerile possibilities thereof.
Sadly I'm feeling the same. I loved my coworkers and the Bay Area, but it's just too expensive to be worth it.
I was merely presenting my interpretation of what OP wanted to say.

However I wouldn't classify Nature as "sensational media", the authors of the original are a physicist and a mathematician from a well known University.

And I wouldn't call it hysteria when barely anything gets done for the actual climate at a nation state level.
What's the issue with single open source developers providing solutions? I would expect they'd have an easier time than married ones because of the time commitment married people should give to their family.
If your "proof" can't port to Humans then it's not proof

Learn to take a hint. I'm not going to argue this on human terms because you're playing a dumb um-akshually game.

Computer reasoning systems can solve vastly more complex problems perfectly. Expert mathematicians can solve vastly more complex problems with only minimally increased errors. The ability of LLMs to solve reasoning problems completely disintegrates when the problems get more complex.

Trying to argue that LLMs are alike humans because of you can put these three into the buckets of "No mistakes" and "Some mistakes" is ridiculous.

Nobody is calling LLMs perfect reasoning machines.

Yes.

You said humans make mistakes, my point here is, humans make mistakes precisely because they stop doing reasoning and start doing blind pattern matching estimation of the answer.

The idea that you must make no mistake reasoning before you can be considered to be reasoning has no ground.

Reading comprehension.

I did not say no mistakes. I said that the failure pattern follows that of estimated guesses; Rapidly increasing errors as the size of the problem increases.

Whereas with computer reasoning, the rate of errors does not increase at all. And with (expert) humans the rate only goes up a little.

Did you even bother looking at the link?

You are missing the point.

I am not referring to literally English or any other language. I'm referring to the structure of language problems, which is vastly simpler than any moderately complex math or programming problem.

To more explicitly spell out the reason for my unimpressed-ness: They trained a pattern-repeating-machine and found that it will repeat some of their patterns, some of which were patterns trained on.

This does not demonstrate the ability to reason abstractly about new models, so I do not care.
Dan Patrick is a terrible human being. Totally unsurprising behavior from him.
My takeaway:

>"In 2008, Gozar et al. reported hightemperature interface superconductivity between metallic and insulating copper oxides(39). The thinner the layer, the greater the stress-inducing effect, the greater the strain, which seems to be
the higher the superconducting transition temperature. Therefore, we argue that the stress caused by temperature and pressure brings a minute structural distortion and strain, which create an electronic state for superconductivity."

Anyway, very interesting paper!
Did you know that the most common sort of theft in the US and Canada is wage theft? It doesn’t happen nearly as often in countries with stronger labour laws.

It doesn’t get prosecuted nearly as much as other types of theft.

https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...
Oversight Committee Hearing: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
Wow, why does it always feel like I get into this same merrygoround every 6 months with the same goalposts being retreated to the same positions, with each argument until we’re suddenly talking about how Reagan once brushed past a reporter so clearly his party is the authoritarian one. It’s so tiring. We went from politicians ordering (with implied threats) political action from private citizens to the FBI requesting something without a warrent… if you can’t see the difference idk why we’re even talking.
F$%^& Google.
Both faced racism and turned to physical training as a way of overcoming it. Both had a belief and practice around "mind over matter". Both consider themselves philosophers to an extent.
Off topic: is there a way to use one of the LLMs and have it ingest data from a SQLite database and ask it questions about it?
Oh my, yes. :-)

I actually don't like using them on my Macs.

The key feel of a Model M tells me I'm on a PC, or a Unix box.

The key feel of an Apple Extended tells me I'm on a Mac, and I hit different combos without thinking of it. Cmd+C/V/X instead of Ctrl+C/V/X etc.

Put the PC keyboard on a Mac and my muscle memory gets very confused...
I don't think I would be toast - I can still have a unique password for each account I have.

Also, I can presumably regain possession of my World ID credentials by visiting an Orb.
Having a realistic picture of the future is important for long-term life planning. It is not the reporting of the facts that’s fuckin’ up the kids, it’s the facts themselves. Burying your head in the sand is not a valid technique when addressing anxieties, it only makes the inevitable emotional breakdown worse when things come to a head.
I have noticed that the vast majority of existential risk folks I have seen have very little experience running and maintaining large systems in production. They tend to all be on the research side of things. I think that it can be hard to understand the amount of real world friction that exists until you experience it for yourself.