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Show HN: League Legacy – The Home for Your Fantasy League
Hey everyone - I started working on League Legacy about ~15 months ago and launched it in beta last football season. I've been working on it throughout the year to improve it and I'm excited to have people check it out for the 2023 football season and continue to gather feedback.

I credit HN in a lot of ways for the progress I've made - I've struggled in the past with side-projects. Typically I'd either jump from one project to the next without seeing anything through, or in the times I did - I did not validate there was a market for the product. Thanks to much of what I've taken away from others here I not only validated early that users would be interested (and pay) for the product, but I have consistently worked on this project and plan on continuing to do so.

I know HN isn't the target community for this project - but I wanted to share and hopefully continue to get feedback, particularly on marketing and growth options. I don't want to come off as spammy by posting it all over the place, and display ads/etc I don't think are going to make economic sense with the low price point of this particular product. So any suggestions or thoughts here would be great.

Briefly about League Legacy: I started this project to provide a tool that tracks and analyzes Fantasy Football League History. You can automatically import your League data from various fantasy services you may use (Yahoo, Sleeper, ESPN, etc) and then the app provides a bunch of history and statistics for your League. You can also manage your League members, seasons, league finances, it generates a rich league record book, and generally provides a lot of fun widgets and features.

Since that initial beta launch I've added so much more. Beyond the hundreds of little tweaks and improvements - we've added support for MLB, NHL, and NBA fantasy leagues, added a League Home where you can manage your league schedule (events), league rules, and messages to members. And new for this NFL season automated weekly league newsletters that we generate each week for your league to share with your members.

I have a lot more planned and am excited to keep building.

If anyone is interested in checking this out and providing some helpful feedback, you can check out the demo or the full-site. Thanks!

https://leaguelegacy.io
Parking is a problem? Just find a fence or lamp post and loop a lock through your front wheel and frame triangle. It's free.
There is no consensus view of consciousness. Further, Turing machines have nothing to do with consciousness and have nothing to offer in the way of a definition of criterion for it. (And if you meant Turing test, same thing applies there.)
I see that it doesn't go up (..) a directory.
25km isn't too rough unless you're copping a lot of ups and downs, or don't enjoy walking. Helps if you start early to cover ground and give yourself time to rest.

Our 4yo daughter did day hikes in the 15-20km range a few times last year, in mountainous terrain. I think attitude and resilience are key.

In this case, one advantage was the author having a 7kg pack and using accommodation/food along the way rather than carrying a tent, sleeping gear, food, 2-3L of water, etc. Starting with day hikes or walking part of your commute is an easy way to build up to trying longer adventures.
Fix housing and about 20 other major issues first.
Going to Moon has been a publicity stunt (to prove that the US can do it faster than the Soviets, ergo the democracy-capitalism system is better than totalitarian communism), and so will be the travel to Mars. There are no tangible benfits to be drawn from either of them - it's all about propaganda.
Shutterstock would say that the model is a derivative work of their images, much like a photograph of a painting is a derivative work of the painting despite being in a different medium.

They would say they are owed licensing fees regardless of whether the shutterstock logo appears in the output. The appearance of their logo in the output merely proves that the system's outputs are derived from their copyrighted images.
I’m very sorry you’ve had bad experiences and difficult circumstances. Of course, no one can make you follow a treatment protocol: you have to want the freedom that comes with conquering your fear, and be willing to go through some discomfort to get there. It’s a very personal choice.

I will say again that if you’re inclined, you might consider starting with something that seems like a small challenge. Even a small victory can really boost your confidence and motivation. Finally, you might consider working with a therapist. Telehealth is a nice option that works well for many people.
This doesn't work. You need energy to convert CO2 back into propane. The CO2 is coming from fossil fuels, which you're still ultimately going to burn again to get energy back...putting the CO2 back into the atmosphere.

Only now you've thrown away some of the energy in losses doing the CO2 to propane conversion.

This would lower the efficiency of a fossil fuel powerplant, and this increase the CO2 emitted overall.
Are you entrusted with your means?
Airport Pianos: Find Pianos in Airports
Hello everyone! One of my favourite things to do is play piano in airports. The prospects of discovering, or being able to play, a piano brighten my mood when travelling.

That's why I made Airport Pianos, a site dedicated to pianos in airports. The site is text-focused and has a client-side search feature that you can use for planning an itinerary.

One of my favourite parts about this project is seeing submissions and data on Google Search Console about piano-related queries. It's so nice to see so many people out there looking for airport pianos; if you know of one, let me know!

My favourite airport piano? Maybe Chicago; really well maintained.

P.S. pianos.pub and www.worldpianos.org also have airport pianos listed!
So the first derivative was already understood to remain nonzero forever[1], now we know that the second derivative probably will also remain nonzero, and the third is slowing down but still positive for the moment?

[1] IIRC in the 80s the big bang/big crunch model was preferred
1. I can't even parse your logic here. Sorry :/

2. If he was right about the Jews he would have improved the world immensely. But of course he was enormously and famously wrong. Jews have contributed enormously to the world, way outside their population numbers would suggest.

> where Hitler is wrong because he initiated violence against peaceful people

Well.. I mean, in the mind of Hitler they were not peaceful. So that's kinda missing the point. The point is that Hitler was the hero in his own mind, and in the mind of his followers. If you truly grasp this concept you will realize that righteous fury is SUPER DANGEROUS. And it's more dangerous the larger the scale.

Evil = wrongness * certainty * power.

This is the key to understanding Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot.
I am curious why isn't the network always in an "interference" state, but sometimes it collapses into a "restricted" ONB?

> the neural networks we observe in practice are in some sense noisily simulating larger, highly sparse networks

This seems somewhat related to a point made by Ilya Sutskever here [1]: NNs can be though of an approximation to the Kolmogorov compressor. Speculating, one could say any network is a projection of the ideal compressor (which argualy perfectly represents all n-features in an n-dimensional ONB) into a lower dimentional space, hence the interference. But why is there not always such an interference?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKMuA_TVz3A
The most efficient and inexpensive air purifier I have found consists of a cheap box fan with a furnace filter taped to the back of it. You can even get a fancy furnace filter and still come out way ahead financially. The other nice aspect of this approach is that you get much more air throughput for a fraction of the cost of a dedicated air purifier.
How does being open source free a company from data compliance issues?

> ... without having to worry about long sales cycles, data compliance issues

which may or may not be associated with this part:

> ... and try to justify it with something-something data privacy.
Generative AI = More words faster --- info is expanded, intelligence is obfuscated.

To illustrate, ask "generative AI" to summarize itself and compare to the above.
Business strategy -> objectives -> KPIs. Don't start at the wrong end.
I had forgotten about this, to be honest, but national security grounds is either what it says on its face or "what is the smallest amount of intervention we can do here to satisfy all those critics talking about something we don't understand".

Our Prime Minister thought getting the Royal Mint to produce NFTs was a good idea. In 2022.
My favorite part of the half life 2 mod called Gary’s Mod was something sort of similar. It was a piano you could sit at and it provided sheet music for popular and nerdy songs using the keys in your typing keyboard. It was a pretty wild and magical experience to be able to play music using your own fingers instantly without having to learn anything new. Granted, you had to know the song in order to know the actual rhythm to which the keys had to be pressed, and you had to experiment a few tries to really understand the flow. But it was fun and easy to do so
What if the future finding is the opposite.

It isn't about if machines are conscious.

The Joke is on everyone.
Humans are found to also be non-conscious.

Going with article, some future 'method' is found to determine if an entity is 'conscious'. And they find Humans and machines are proven to be equal, and neither are conscious, neither have free will.

It's the negative, it can't be proven that Machines can't be Conscious without also proving Humans can't be Conscious.

It is either both or none.
There is no proof to prove Humans are Conscious and Machines can't be.
Ask HN: Need feedback on my landing page as a first timer
I'm working on https://undopamine.com?src=hn , currently in the idea validation stage. I've come up with a "minimum viable" landing page.

As a first timer on frontend, I'd appreciate all feedback - headline, design, product, anything. Thanks!
Got to love their Minecraft exports of any place in the country: https://blocks.geoportail.lu/custom_static/worlds/3fa997d2-b...

The recent ones seem to be broken, but old ones still have a working preview.
Quebec has had a few wins over the years with massive indirect subsidies toward strategic industries, notably gaming and AI. Public money is spent to attract big players which hire a critical mass of talent which leads to more players moving in and eventually some private risk capital becoming available for startups pending to the needs of the big guys. Nothing comparable to the American VC system though.
True true - but to drink and drive, in the most present tense form of the word drink, only in Mississippi!
Title is misleading; not just deaths, but “thousands of sudden deaths in otherwise healthy people”.
So long, and thanks for all the numeric user IDs.
Those are political decisions independent from space travel.
> Now it's mostly just the science.

No way that is true.
Though even the rent-seekers ought to see some value in ARM.
I just got my son the "30 days lost in space" inventr.io kit (not associated at all with them). It seems more pricey than your standard Arduino kit for sure, but provides a (pretty lame..) story of the why things are being built.

Point being, as his first (and close to my first) experience with breadboards and programming, he is loving it and having the programming aspect and electronics aspect combined into "this code makes this thing do this" makes it FAR more interesting for him. I doubt it'll be his passion in life (but who knows) but it's certainly helping him pay attention to details and he is certainly learning a good bit about designing some simple circuits. Would recommend.

(Unrelated, but he also got a build your own am/fm radio kit and he successfully soldered all the bits he needed to, having never soldered before and only ended up with one good burn on his hand at the last connection to be made, the negative battery!)

Confidence building things, and a great way of teaching "you can relatively do anything, you just have to practice!". You could see the pride when he flicked the switch and noise was made.

Same , slower, pride on every day he's "lost in space".
Call me cynical but I think this whole recent moon effort is just busy work so we don't have to work on actually pushing the bounds of human exploration by going for Mars. Way more politically palatable to distribute a few tens of billions of dollars to various constituencies to redo things we've already done than to risk failure trying to do something new.
Well Mrs May f'ked that one up.
It used to be on UK AIM (LSE) until she waved it through despite security interests and minor UK shareholders (i.e. me) not wanting to sell.
Cue BoJo later grovelling to ARM once they actually realised they'd sold off one of the biggest UK IT companies and tried to get them back.
So what is the state of the arts definition of consciousness? And does that lead to any scientific advancement like discovering new particle called Consciouston that exchange information among human's brain cells? Like Sir Penrose said consciousness arise only from quantum effect inside human neurons or stuff that cannot be tested?
For All Mankind, let's go!
An alternative to Google Ads is EthicalAds: https://www.ethicalads.io/alternative-to-google-ads/ (by the folks who make Read the Docs)
I never understand having a repository of 'sick days' as if they're holidays.

You should just be able to call in sick when really sick and for as long as needed. Verified by a doctor of course.
> The only objective difference I can find is what you called "factually wrong about the universe". That is the difference between not only Hitler and any allied commander, but between Hitler and Genghis Khan.

I disagree. Hitler thought jews made Germany weaker. In fact it was the exact opposite: the Nazis made Germany weaker. A LOT. Partially by killing Jews obviously, but partially by just not caring about reality but going all in on their preconceived ideas. Just like Mao or Pol Pot.
Well and also the CO2 isn't acting as a fuel, it acts as a battery or resource.

Plants make sugar from CO2, and also burn that sugar back to CO2 (plants respire overnight - they're not pure CO2 consumption machines).
"No obvious barriers" is very different from "obviously no barriers".

I mean, when you start driving west from New York, there are no obvious barriers to keep you from going clear to China. You haven't gone far enough that you can even see the barrier yet. (Yeah, I know, nobody actually starts driving west from New York without knowing that the Pacific Ocean is out there...)

We can't see any obvious barriers because we don't know what consciousness is. We don't know enough to know whether there are barriers, let alone what they are.
This is also the case with any thread that touches on economics. I'm sure there are a lot more but if they land outside my Murray-Gellman bubble I don't notice as much.
Increase your testing speed by 50% by replacing your `#!/bin/bash` (or whatever) with `#!/bin/true` and reducing your script to 1 line.
When implies that the thing is going to happen. If implies that it might happen.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/if-...

The comment is written in such a way that it assumes this is the nature of reality and at some point, we will learn that the human mind is no different from the parlor tricks of LLMs. This is what I was criticizing.
The ISS isn’t in a stable orbit and needs constant though low levels of thrust to maintain its position. You could actually have a more stable orbit over the moon, but getting to it would a lot more deltaV for seemingly zero benefit.
That's basically the plot of "For all mankind", although they managed to find some intermediate goalposts before Mars
How does it compare to xdotool?
My 85YO mother still uses the AOL email address I set up for her in 1996. It works perfectly on her iPad Pro with IpadOS $CURRENT.

I got the iPad-before-the-iPad-before-last. It maxes out at iOS 9. One of the only ways I've got to get ebooks on it is to email them to my 1996 Hotmail address, which is the only one my my half a dozen that iOS 9 Mail can handle.
In Russia, the FSB monitors all attendees of conferences. If you attend a conference in Russia while on a tourist visa, the police will come up to you and force you to sign a police report that you have done wrong, and possibly pay a fine. I know that from firsthand experience. I would imagine that the situation is similar in China, Vietnam, Egypt, and other authoritarian states.
Not trying to flamebait here (I think
this is a very serious issue, even taken from a purely "selfish" (or self-interested) standpoint), but this essentially sounds like "we'll have to invent a new way to oppress them?"

One would certainly hope they wouldn't do the same, if the roles were reversed. And they one day very well may be. What kind of examples are we setting?
I understand very little about LLMs and stable diffusion. But the observation that AIs produce better images after adding "like Unreal"-triggers might (boldly) suggest some evidence for Sapir Whorf thesis. (That language (speech, words, text) influences cognition, world perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) And furthermore, that the AI model has somehow discovered structure that is similarly rooted in linguistic terms.

Admitted, this is a bit of a stretch probably. ;-)
Oh it’s still filtering its way down through the big companies. Most startups eventually hire someone who had experience with metrics driven management at bigco who starts selling it as a panacea.
Text of SEC 8-K filings and exhibits and 10-K/Q exhibits on Snowflake Mktplace
Yes -- there's an English country dance meetup near me. I went a couple times... but in my late 30s, I was the youngest person in the room by 20 years!

I hope there's some popular movie or TV show that makes it cool again, and injects some fresh blood. Otherwise, it's just going to die, and that would be a loss.

(There's also a contradance[0] about 30 minutes from me. That seems to be having more success attracting young people...?)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_dance
Both are almost unavoidable when your management layers grow beyond a certain level.

Most of the complexity, inefficiency and the related failures in today corporate and institutional world is driven by too much management. The map has become the territory.
It's definitely it. I think the overhead light I'm remembering is from Mission T.H.I.N.K., but I do remember the Gizmos & Gadgets levels. Thanks for finally quashing this curiosity. I can die in peace now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-vMxPcgnjo&t=4m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_T.H.I.N.K.
This article is terrible. There have been previous articles which basically say studios are mastering for movie theaters or 7.1+ systems and spend no time tuning the 5.1 or stereo down mix and that's why its so low and shitty.
XRP was meant to disrupt the SWIFT network, but doesn't seem to have made a dent so far as the incumbent (SWIFT) improved performance and lowered fees (IIRC) and has maintained its position.
Unionized Amazon warehouses are the strongest kick in the butt that Amazon needs to automate this entire union out of existence. Once again. See Hollywood. Strike. “No AI” said the signs. Result? Studios amping up AI hiring like crazy.

Humans are into humans. But capitalism isn’t, that much. It doesn’t care about what substrate it’s made of. Its soul is made of money.

Unions make things better for workers in the short term because a business can’t adapt that quick. It’s like a racket. Same like when a lone worker faces few gigantic corporations and they all offer bad jobs. It’s like a racket. But rackets don’t last. Adaptation kicks and the layers shift. And AI is the biggest adaptation ever. It adapts us out of being necessary. Human leverage drops to near zero and with it the union leverage, also.
I took a look at the two graphs.

I would prefer the price of onions - seems like the price is a lot more stable other than a few points out of the year where it is very high. For those times, I could choose to have a small store of onions or go without.

For the price of corn, if the price is high, chances are it will be high for a while, so I'll have to go without for a while...

What do other people think?
> If elementary particles are generated constantly from pure energy (which doesn't violate laws of conservation) just of pure luck at cosmic scale, then light from distant neighbors slowly pushed this newborn dust into the center of a gigantic void, where it started to concentrate. In such case, we will have huge gap of void between our region of space and our neighbors.

Requires simultaneous behaviour from all directions at great distances while also not having that behaviour here, and also having us being really close to the physical center of this phenomenon rather than off to one side — even a fraction of a percent would be easily noticeable given the CMB is so close to the same in all directions; we see a red/blue-shift dipole from us moving at 370-ish km/s relative to it's comoving rest frame, so that's the scale of fractional away-from-perfect-centre you'd have to explain.

> Surface area of a distant object reduces at r^2, while brightness of the distant object diminishes at r^3.

If space was flat, which is your presumption, those would both be 1/r^2.

> Moreover, the probability of hitting something grows with d^1

You should be able to tell that's wrong by it being an unbounded function, when probability stops at 1.

You should look up Olber's paradox.
Sorry, but you'll never convert me to that pronunciation, even if that's what the founder wants. "G" stands for "graphics", not "jraphics".
I get it, you dislike Russia - but they are objectively one of the most experienced and consistent contenders in the space race.

Around 1,800 space launches (including USSR) vs 1,500 USA. And they seem to be increasing the frequency of launches.
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And if anything I would place a premium on boredom. I am paying, in part, to have my attention back.

The complete opposite for me would be something like Tesla's "self-driving" where I'm effectively an unpaid driving instructor for the equivalent of a drunk teenager that randomly shifts between F1 driver and actively suicidal.
But don’t you know that organizing labor and giving safety nets like universal health insurance to people leads directly to shortages, breadlines, massive government repression and the entire population eating their cats?

Everyone should be aware of the TTV of these activities (“Time to Venezuela”) and refrain from unionizing.

</sarcasm>

Anyway, unionizing will only hasten the R&D investments to replace human labor. We should instead have an automation tax on the corporations and have a UBI. We won’t need unions or minimum wage laws. Even then, though, the UBI will always be less than what the corporations would spend on people. But we have to get that in place before demand human labor drops like a stone, and the governments simply won’t care about mass unrest because they’ll control everyone with surveillance, drones and new laws.
It’s my impression and experience that it’s far more directly built into language than metabolic processes, though certainly I see where you’re coming from.

Shutting up for a long time is a pretty good way to test your comfort level with suppressing an inflated concept/value of self. Extending the shutting up to internal chatter, even more so.
The orbit doesn’t depend on the size of the object- a pebble and the iss in the same position with the same velocity would have the same orbit.
Going to Mars has about 0% affect on Global Warming on Earth.