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Ask HN: How does Levels handle so much negative PR for NomadList?
Recently, I've stepped out of the shadow of being a W2 employee into being a one-man entrepreneur like Pieter Levels. He runs super popular remotelist and remoteok.

At first I thought he just made a great product and that was it, but at closer inspection, I'm having doubts.

1. Earlier today, a reddit thread on the digitalnomad subreddit completely bashed nomadlist. Hundreds of upvotes saying nomadlist wasn't worth it, with dozens of comments agreeing. Only one person raised defense for it.

2. When looking at the nomadlist product itself, it's kind of ...rough. Not that I care about that sort of thing, but it's riddled with bugs, design flaws, etc.

3. He publishes his refund rate, which is just above 10%. This seems really high.

Is this a case to where he got lucky and owned the digital nomand / remote work market early enough that the product actually doesn't matter? Or am I missing something?
Sending you here to a rabbit hole:

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/favorite-cookbo...

(unfortunately there isn't a good food filter)
https://www.kcrw.com/categories/books

Store just with cookbooks only in SF

https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/
From Nashville Songwriters Association-

Songwriters are paid via 3 royalty streams:

Mechanical Royalty – A songwriter receives a mechanical royalty from the sale of a song on an album or a legal digital download. This rate is set by a Copyright Royalty Board made up of 3 judges who meet every 5 years to set rates. The original mechanical royalty was established in 1909 and set at 2 cents. Today, the current rate is 9.1 cents (typically split with co-writers and publishers).

Performance Royalty – A songwriter receives a performance royalty when their song is performed on terrestrial broadcast radio, in a live performance venue, or via online streaming services. In the United States, performance royalties are paid out through Performing Rights Organizations (ASCAP, BMI and SESAC) and are governed by consent decrees from WWII requiring the PROs to go to rate court to receive their rates from entities seeking to license the songs they represent.

Synch Fees – A songwriter receives a synch fee when his/her song is licensed for use to synchronize with video (i.e. television, movie, YouTube video). This royalty is freely negotiated in the marketplace and is typically split 50% to the writers and 50% to the artist and record label.
This is common in people with ADHD. Focus is an issue unless there's a stimulus provided: either joy or fear. Which is why those of us with ADHD will either hyper-focus on only what they enjoy unless there's the pressure of a deadline to kick-start the motivation to focus.
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This is why MVP exists. However validation is often needed much earlier. I think a prototype that works visually only, then collecting pre-orders, is the way to go.
Did you know how in free, natural nature animals eat? grass is literally eaten alive, animals are normally torn apart by other animal teeth. What you propose? Change nature to be a false/artificial paradise?

Humans are omnivores, we need to eat meat and animal proteins to live well, that's is, we can and we should treats animals we eat differently but that's not just a mere business issue, it's also a dimensional issue: we are many, too many. I doubt we can live without certain practice.

I do not say, of course, that TINA, we are in the sole possible world etc, just saying that going from an extreme to another is a good way to makes disasters.
GrapheneOS[0] has been an absolute godsend for me. For the first time in more than ten years I no longer have to distrust my phone and am still able to use pretty much any application (including Google apps) on a modern phone. Moreover, I regularly get updates & fixes – sometimes even several times a month – not just for the OS but also for the built-in apps (e.g. the Google Camera replacement).

I am very excited about the project's future! One thing I look forward to in particular is hardware developed primarily for GrapheneOS.

[0] https://grapheneos.org/
Fair point but I am not sure how it is any different from other risky industries. Aviation became safer (current Boeing fiascos not withstanding) over the past 2-3 decades where today an airliner crash makes global news.

Humans being terrible at something, at some time in the past, is not a sole reason to write off the technology. The response should be to rather focus on improving the process and policy rather than shrugging off nuclear which IPCC has admitted is necessary to meet our climate goals.

Most American's are very worried about dying from terrorism while most are actually being killed by heart attacks.

At a certain point it is a matter of what people want to believe and what is actually happening on the ground.
I like to think that I "sell" myself assuming 80% capacity, in order to avoid spending too much time operating at the bleeding edge with all pistons engaged. Nobody can deliver at 100% for an extended period of time without suffering some consequence.

So long as I have just as many 60% days as I do 100%, and average out near the benchmark of 80%, then I have fulfilled the expectations that have been set, and I can be comfortable shutting the lid of my laptop at 1700 sharp.

I'm currently working in downtime(which I expect to continue for some more time), and have been spending my time trying to build something for internal use that also counts for my self-education goals. There's definitely a temptation to goof off and read, play games, or watch movies, but I'd rather be 5% efficient at figuring out how to get Azure to cooperate than 'opt out' and take unofficial personal time. I want to be able to show that I can independently produce value, and increase the value of my 80% for when raises come around.
Counterpoint, you don’t want being sick or having a bad day to ruin your chances at what you’ve been working for for years. Also, being under pressure is generally not good for people’s ability to reason calmly - another reason not to make it so high stakes. So I really hope what you’re suggesting doesn’t come to pass.

We should probably make the SAT nearly free, though, if that price actually keeps people who’d otherwise go to college from taking it more than once.
I'm sorry but this is just total nonsense. The author argues very that being informed is an unimportant article of faith. I can name a number of recent examples where being uninformed of the news would have had significant impacts on my life. For example,

1. New Zealand is still under various Covid restrictions and they are in constant flux. These impact real-world decisions I need to make like should I plan to attend a particular event, should I plan a trip for the winter or even go to the office next week. If I don't stay on top of the news I will be helpless. Even the event organisers and shop owners use phrases like "Red Light Phase 2" which must be gleaned from the news - Red Light today doesn't mean the same thing it did 2 weeks ago.

2. The Ukraine crisis. Even if you don't think it's important to be aware of such a monumental ongoing geopolitical event for its own sake, if I ignored the news I would have no idea why so many people on my island on the other side of the world are carrying blue and yellow flags, changing their avatars and vocalising their support for an Eastern European country they have never even mentioned before. You can argue it's not important to be informed about this kind of event but that assertion is no less an article of faith than the claim that it IS important. And quite frankly if it became obvious someone I was talking to wasn't aware of the Ukraine conflict it would sharply diminish my respect for them.

3. We had an ongoing weeks-long protest in my city recently which blocked several important streets and caused a lot of chaos. Is it in my interests to not be aware of road closures and massive police operations in my area? Even if I don't care about the protestors, their cause etc, it's still directly impactful for me to know where I can, can't and shouldn't drive my car.
Progress (noun) : gradual betterment.

By that definition progress is always good.
Yes with Satisfactory especially. The hard part for me is keeping track of goals. I'll start playing with the mindset of "I'm going to finish this factory" and then I'll run out of resources. So on the trip to get more resources I find 5 other things starting to go sideways so I have to start fixing that instead.
Reddit thread mentioned: https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/tq7b93/is_it_...

His refund rate: https://nomadlist.com/open

He makes about $700k a year on nomadlist, $70k in refunds.
https://archive.ph/dPXEb
Why not put it into long-term storage for emergencies based on hydrogen instead? Why this fixation on nuclear as the one true savior?

Today you can use solar to produce hydrogen which you then burn and still economically come out ahead of nuclear. Not that it would be sane to do which is why it haven't been adopted.
That's a PHP thing easily configured. I am talking of the OS.
Ive always thought (well, after being wrong about both sides), its Idea multiplied by execution
Although you're technically correct [1], your objection is a bit tired – in particular because in this context, "customer" clearly meant "target audience for a product". Building something that attracts millions of daily visitors to a website is much harder than selling advertising space on that website.

[1] the best kind of "correct"
Would you mind sharing a list of those projects (including yours of course)? :)
It’s mostly a cost problem, idling a reactor for 12 hours produces 1/2 the power per day at 95% of the cost. Aka your cost per kwh basically doubles.

France largely got around this by exporting power, but that obviously doesn’t scale if everyone tries to export power on the weekends nobody wants to import it.
So basically, we don't exactly know why the night sky is mostly dark? (At least, that's what I got out of this)
Agreed. I spent a bunch of time a few years ago doing home-coaching for our two teenagers as they rolled into SAT time. The way you get better at the math section is to genuinely fix whatever gaps might exist in your knowledge of algebra and geometry. As OP says, that "is not an inherently bad thing."

There's probably another 20 points that can be picked up by learning to read the questions very carefully -- so that you don't race to show how quickly you can spin-up an off-task answer that precisely matches the wrong question. Getting that right also "is not an inherently bad thing."

The verbal section is a bit more of a swamp, and there might be a larger element of gamesmanship there. But for schools like MIT, where math aptitude is the main event, I think keeping a math-focused role for the SAT can help a lot.

It identifies not just the elite-school wizards with lots of AP and math SAT 800s -- but also the teens from humbler public schools that didn't have an AP track, but whose 790s on the (pre-calc focused) math SATs speak to their ability to play at a higher level.

Apropos of analogies, I think the test-takers got rid of those because they can be ridiculously skewed to particular (affluent) cultures. For some people, it's obvious if yacht-to-dingy is akin to symphony-to-quartet. For people who grew up with less money, it is a total WTF moment.
Wind and solar do not require the same quality of regulation as nuclear. Nor do they have the same long term security and stability commitments - e.g. see nuclear reactor sites in the Ukraine conflict.
The MIT article literally says "diversity" is one of their goals. Seems like you're arguing against yourself.
MIT is not an Ivy League school, and does not give any preference to legacy applicants.
This is correct. You -should be- certainly free to express a "Z". I'm not saying you should be free from the consequences.
> I understand that this announcement may dismay some readers for whom the tests can be a source of stress.

Bluntly, if one can't handle the stress of the SAT, then the stress of exams at a university like MIT is going to be overwhelming.

Exam week at Caltech was called "compression", and after the exams was "decompression". The moniker is not a joke.
Just think through the “levels” of chicken life:

1. Let die naturally of old age
2. Slaughter after a productive life
3. Slaughter mid life because disease
4. Slaughter mid life because money (e.g., price of feed)
5. Slaughter/cull young for sexing
6. Use fertilized eggs
7. Prevent fertilization, use unfertilized
8. Eliminate laying of eggs

Prevention of life is death in the limit.
Geoff Mack was probably well-paid for his work.. And from multiple artists performing and recording it, and many radio stations broadcasting it. Cash probably made more money for Mack than any other artist.
The ends justify the means and the world definitely would benefit from a pro-nuclear psy-ops
It wasn't originally called Postfix; it was VMailer.
That's not quite right, it's been reported that the fourth also consumed the water & chocolates but did not fall ill:

>The three men had reportedly only consumed chocolate and water in the hours before their symptoms appeared, while a fourth member of the team who had consumed the same things did not experience symptoms.

>However, a US official said: "The intelligence highly suggests this was environmental," adding: "E.g., not poisoning."

https://news.sky.com/story/roman-abramovich-and-ukrainian-pe...
when you grow old, you start to hate every new change :)
And the counterpoint being made here is that: you can tell yourself that, but it's not true.

Why? Because bussinesses aren't people, rather businesses are made up of people. People aren't businesses, people do business.

You can tell yourself "you got to learn to think like a real CEO to run the business of your person" and "make good decisions" or else "you will fail".

Or you can tell yourself "I am my own man (CEO), I can decide what my goals are, and what's considered success/failure. And I have decided that I don't actually want nor have to work so hard". The day you can do that, is the day you hold a huge component to being happy.
My man, there are people allergic to the sun. --- Forget about that. There are people allergic to themselves.

Don't trust your brain to not fuck you up any chance it'll get. Because it will do.
If you fail out, it doesn’t look so good, and everyone will know. I wouldn’t expect many connections to last if you’re not someone people respect.
The bankers were doing what we wanted them to do by giving us loans, even when we didn't qualify. Now they're continuing to do what we want them to do by being the villains. As long as they get paid...
> No one in the developed world uses their taste to determine if they’re eating a balanced diet.

I know. The developed world relies on food industry disinformation sold as "science". I believe this is the reason why the developed world has the kind of deficiencies and diseases that the indigenous cultures didn't have.
I'm fairly technical myself, mostly I need someone good at frontend(vuejs), where I need help to design nice UI for the (embedded device) product. I spent my own time learning vuejs but, not as fast as I wanted so far, I am a low level developer coding in c/c++ basically. I have been thinking about hiring a (cheaper) overseas vuejs3 developer for a while using my own money, the reality is that, hiring is more challenging than learning vuejs, so I stuck with the latter, but, it's slow.
I'm just saying that U Penn, being an Ivy, has as much "reputation" as MIT, CalTech, etc. Until someone pipes up with some sort of proof that it is actually better (which I doubt it is), then why should U Penn's reputation allow a Trump to go through, but at MIT such a thing could never occur? I'm not seeing it frankly.
The problem for me (at least with Chic-fil-a) is that I am really only eating fast food ever on Saturday or Sundays. Those are the days I have off and the days I am most likely to be traveling (by car or other) and when I would be mostly likely to indulge in fast food. Probably about 2/3 of the times I would have gone to Chic-fil-A I could not due to the Sunday closure.
This looks great, and works well so far. I'm using it on mobile where dictation lends itself better to using natural language.

Feature request: I'd like to limit results to a recent time range, e.g., the last five years. For many queries, anything older will be outdated.
> The model that the parent is positing is that we are all totally independent actors competing in a labour market and our primary goal should be to optimise our behaviour in said market.

Parent never said totally independent, just that the assumption is the most useful operating mode. "Don't jump in a pool expecting a life guard" is good advice whether there is a tower nearby or not.

They also never said optimizing our participation should be a primary goal, but that our participation needs to be managed with our actual goals in mind. It's like he told everyone they should exercise and the counter argument is "Not everyone should quit their jobs to be a fitness model". It's nonsense.
Definitely for the best. Standardized testing was pretty much the only reason I and many other working class folks I know could get into good schools -- I was never going to do a million side activities, and my summers were spent working, not building my academic resume.

Of course the real tragedy is that we fixate so much on college, even prestigious ones, at all given how unnecessary they are for making people into productive and happy human beings. This change is significant but affects less than one percent of the population each year..
Yes I mostly agree, the tricky part is what to do about packets marked as Don’t Fragment. Hopefully they are already well under the actual MTU, but if need be, should they be fragmented or dropped? (The answer is to fragment all except icmp imo, even if it’s against the wishes of the packet IP headers)
ObservableHQ from the creator of D3....notebooks in javascript make so much sense and I believe will unlock their power for a much larger non-pro community than python based tools will.
The Dark Side of Minimalist Design: Updating Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles [video]
That’s weird, announcing something like this publicly — wouldn’t that immediately trigger a mole hunt? Or is this to insinuate some sort of Russian secret service cannibalism?
Don't break treaties and agreements you sign is a good differentiator. As I recall, Russia, the US and other countries guaranteed Ukraine when they agreed to nuclear disarm. We've now seen what happens w/o nukes so it's going to be bloody difficult getting people to give them up and even prevent people from developing them (Germany? Japan,...)
College Admissions in the US is broken. This is a great move at restoring normalcy though. The SAT or ACT are the best thing for leveling the playing field between the rich and the poor. If anything I would like to see more reliance on this.

If I had my way the US would model the college admissions process on the Chinese Gao Kao. Have everyone take the the exam, have students list their preference for university, then sort from top ranked to the bottom ranked filling open positions at universities. This is fair, the only bias is ability, and it removes all legacy, wealth and athletics factors.
They could have just used baking powder.
This happens way more often than you'd expect.

Think of it like dating. How any people did you date before you actually got married. For most, it wasn't the first person.

Seller beware.
This is an awful subreddit. It's mostly used for catching up on stupid Youtube/Twitch drama or asking why some other subreddit has been banned/locked/quarantined. On real stories the answers are very often very misinformed.
I'm not saying that these tests are not effective predictors of something. In fact, I'm sure they are.

I'm saying that it's certain that they way they are administered leave a lot of people behind, and I don't think it has to be that way. There are many objections to these kinds of metrics, often involving disabilities or socioeconomic issues. I guess I'm just wondering out loud how much of that has to do with the physical way in which the tests are administered.

As to reflecting the real world, all I can do is point to my own experiences: military, academic, legal, and corporate, and say being good at high stakes, infrequent, timed, standardized tests is not very important in those contexts.

Here are 2 Malcolm Gladwell podcasts on the startling disconnect between the skills required to succeed on the LSAT and the skills required to succeed as a high-prestige lawyer:

https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/puzzle-rush/

https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-tortoise-and-the-hare/

While the LSAT does predict success in those jobs, the skills needed to succeed on the LSAT have nothing to do with being a good Supreme Court clerk -- especially the going super fast part.
When it comes to MISRA C, it is interesting to note how many (a majority) of its rules do not apply or have native enforcement[1].

You might have also seen the AUTOSTAR Rust in Automotive Working Group announcement recently[2].

[1]: https://github.com/PolySync/misra-rust/blob/master/MISRA-Rul...

[2]: for some reason the announcement was removed from the "News and events" site, https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp... but it is still available as a PDF https://www.autosar.org/fileadmin/user_upload/20220308_RustW...
On the other side, I'd pay an extra to buy a fully unlocked Gran Turismo because I don't want to spend time to get driving license again for the nth time, money for the nth time, tracks, cars, etc. It's a total waste of time. Let me drive and that's it. So I didn't buy any of the most recent versions of the franchise. A loss for sellers, I can play with what I already have.
> Animal "suffering" is completely arbitrary view based on shallow view of the ecosystem

It’s not a function of having a certain view of ecosystems. It’s as a simple as accepting a few premises:

1. Needless suffering is generally bad
2. In almost all cases amongst those in the developed world, animal products aren’t generally necessary
3. farming animals causes their suffering.

This is why we love our dogs and don’t put them in dog fights. Or why we feel bad when we see someone putting kittens in a bag and throwing it in a river.
I was calling out someone criticizing me for not providing citations whilst they also failed to provide citations. So that seems fair game to me.

Truth be told, though, I feel like your statement is insinuating that I somehow don't value science. Or, that I've never heard of the scientific method?

My main point of frustration is how people are expecting a level of rigor that isn't congruent with the medium. This is a forum, not an academic journal or a policy-making body. I don't know if "reverse gish gallop" has been coined yet, but I sense that when one finds someone they disagree with they can adopt the mindset that everything that person has said must be backed up with a citation. Virtually no one is equipped to perform a dissertation defense on a forum post, so demanding an ever increasing list of evidence is an effective means of discrediting the content without actually engaging with it.
If you had contact information in your profile, someone might reach out.

But since you don't: what kind of help are you looking for? Web development?
Thank you for the feedback! We are working on it. Just relaunched the website and docs are going to be updated soon.
Is it no yeast altogether, or just naturally occurring yeast? Lactobacillus delbrueckii is probably not in any Greek or Indian cookbooks, but you can't make yogurt without it.