Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608845

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https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/404-W-Broadway-Centralia-...

Walkable. Passenger rail. Fiber internet. Affordable with a single income.

I get the feeling we're not discussing this submission on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605139

I get the feeling it's going to be flagged/dead in short order.

edit: Subarashi! How elegant. HN has flagged it less than 30 minutes after I made this comment. So much for the bastion of enlightenment and free speech known as HN, right?

Now I read they are spamming jobs that don't exist. Imagine my complete lack of surprise.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Why is the assumption that I don't know SQL if I'm using an ORM? It's as if authors of these ORM-bad articles believe the only reason anyone would use one is because of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485177

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That's validating under HTML4 strict. There was a valid way to use buttons without a form element or javascript, but now there is not. It was also neat from the standpoint that anchor doesn't allow nested block content (like a div), but button does. And since anchor doesn't require an href, you could use the same thing inside a form and let the button do the submit. That way you could uniformly style all your buttons/anchors on your entire site, whether they were really links or butttons.

Let me ask you this. Do you own a car? I don't. I take the train.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1185535/transport-carbon...

Look at that, I'm the 1%. What are you doing personally about the climate? I bet you own an air conditioner too. I bet you don't carry 20-30 pounds of groceries a mile every two to three days, do you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543350

I bet you don't have a four year degree on the subject either, do you? When was the last time you purchased gasoline? For me it was over a year ago when I had to rent a car for one day.

Go ahead, call me a science denier. I know you want to. You can just absolve yourself of all your carbon footprint by being self righteous about it, can't you?

Science has no idea where 2-3 gigatons of carbon go every year. That's a BIG number. And it is a big deal. And it has been missing for decades now. All the time you were calling someone a science denier, you've been completely unaware that you can't even account for all the major carbon sources/sinks.

https://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio326/class/ecosyst/whrcmissc.ht...

https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/new-global-carbon-da...

>Everyone initially wants thing A. But then they want to customize it to do all permutations and combinations n of A, B, C.

Oh, I wouldn't be so sure of that. Think about Eclipse vs IntelliJ. 10 years ago Eclipse had all the features, and IntelliJ didn't so it was fast. Most developers don't use all the features, so most developers were very happy to move to IntelliJ, even if it was not free. Then IntelliJ spent the next decade building lots of features it didn't have. Now everyone wants off of IntelliJ, because it's no longer fast. Now it's got a lot of "useless" features like Eclipse too.

The problem isn't that you can't do something deserving of a billion dollars. Clearly it is possible. It's just that if you do it, you rarely get the billion dollars.

I started remote working just before the covid hysteria began. I used to view it with suspicion. If I work from home, then I will always be at work I reasoned. But by the time I had accepted to work from home, this was already the case. If the server went down at 2am, I had to get up and fix it, no matter what.

Working remote wasn't a big change, I was still sitting at a desk with my laptop. My office interruptions went from colleagues to spouse interrupting my train of thought. But being untethered from the office opened up the whole world as a potential location. In fact, that is the reason I started remote working.

I purchased a modest home outside the country at a very low price and intended to live there for a few years. The cost of living was so much lower, I was living a great life there too. It allowed me to save enough cash to buy another home here in the US. Of course, since I work remote, that means I could live anywhere in the US. Anywhere at all.

Where would you choose to live if you could live anywhere? I didn't want to live in the city that I left. I left there because I could never afford a home there. I had no reason to go back to it. I didn't arrive at my answer quickly. I spent more than two years shopping around, weighing pros and cons, deciding what location fit my lifestyle the best.

I tried to find a place that replicated my home outside the US as much as possible. Low cost of living, low cost housing, adequate passenger rail, walkable with no need for a car, low crime. A small town that is a short train ride away from the big city. Now that I've found it, the major expenses of my life are gone. I don't own a car, I have a bicycle. I don't have any debt. I owe no one a rent/mortgage check at the end of the month. Carrying everything I eat and drink home from the grocery store is a great way to stay in shape and avoid over-eating as well.

Since my expenses are so low, I now enjoy a three day work week. We live on one income. I'm no longer responsible for server uptime. I can work whichever days I choose. I split my four days off. Two days of the week are for my side project ideas. The weekends are spent enjoying eating out, hopping on the train to explore a new station stop or revisit a favorite one. If we stay home, I do the cooking on Sunday for my spouse who cooked all week for me. I'm very stress free now.

Despite living modestly, I consider myself richer than the billionaires of the world, because I have the one thing they'll never have: Enough.

It will be very possible once they become the owners of the intellectual property being infringed. Think about how it was "impossible" to implement DRM on music and movies in the early days of youtube. Now, Google owns the content and platform, and suddenly their "rolling cypher" which involves no encryption at all is supposedly enforcable DRM.

The Silicon Valley tech bros play the same game every time. They violate the law, say it's just too darn difficult to obey the law without stifling progress, and then they get away with it until they kill all the competition. At which point, the law is once again applicable to anyone that might try to challenge them.

Remember how Amazon destroyed all the other retailers when they had a decade of no sales tax while brick & mortar had to obey it. "Calculating sales tax for 50 different states?! That's impossible!!!" What a load of shit...

Now, knowing that they're going to do this playbook again, how do you think it's going to play out? We've already seen it. Anthropic steals your copyrighted code, puts together their claude code project, the code for that project leaks, but now THEY own it! They sent DMCA takedowns on that AI generated code. AI generated code enjoys no copyright protection, it cannot be DMCAed under the law, there's no copyright on it. But Anthropic claims there is, and Github will obey the takedown, and nobody has the money to step up and stop them.

See where this is going? Once they achieve market dominance, they will claim that all the code generated by claude belongs to Anthropic, your prompts belong to you, but THEIR machine generated THEIR code and you only purchase a license to it with your tokens. A limited license. It might be revokable, it might expire, maybe you need to pay an annual fee to keep using THEIR code Claude generated for you. And if you actually just write code on your own, without Claude? Well, prepare to be sued like a network printer is sued by the RIAA because that's going to happen too. They will have their robot scour your code for "fair use" training and discover that it's just too similar to something their machine generated a year earlier. Sorry open source programmer, here's your legalese nasty gram. It appears you owe Anthropic some money.