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P-values are almost always taught poorly, but it's not actually that difficult of a concept. I took statistics in high school, again in undergrad, and it wasn't until the third time in grad school that it actually made intuitive sense (thank you Julia Yang!). When you're testing a hypothesis in statistics, it's easier to formulate a "null hypothesis" which is the opposite of what you're testing, and then try to disprove that null hypothesis.

A p-value is the probability, assuming the null hypothesis is true, of obtaining a result at least as extreme as the one actually observed.

Put differently: if the null hypothesis were true, then for p=0.05 you'd see <things at least as far from the test statistic as what you just observed> at most 5% of the time.

Put differently again: If the null hypothesis you are testing is true, then for p=0.05 random sampling would not return an observation as far from the test statistic as you just observed, 95% of the time.

Sounds like we agree that the USA does not have a truly free market, and that some regulation is essential. I'm glad!

>Did you know that paychecks are private money? They aren't legal tender.

I did know this, actually. Thankfully your banks are not free market profiteers. They're subject to stringent regulations to ensure a more orderly and efficient market, and thus they'll dependably convert cheques to dollars. Another point against free market absolutism.

>Harming and/or defrauding customers is against the law and is actionable.

That's why Big Tobacco was dismantled and are no longer advertising and selling harmful, addictive products to teens, right?

Teenagers after all are well-known for their astute abilities to assess risk and make rational, informed decisions that are in their long-term best interests, right?

More regulation is needed here, not less.

>Government run schools are pretty much bottom of the barrel.

In the USA, certainly. That's not an indictment of public education as a whole, though, only of American society's "Fuck you, I got mine" values. If Americans were less selfish they could have the most highly-educated citizens on the planet, with global-elite schooling available to every American schoolchild.

In any case, free market absolutism is delusional for all but the billionaire class (for whom it's optimal) and I'm not interested in continuing this conversation further.

A truly free market is also free of regulation and embraces predatory actions by monopolists. Think being paid in company scrip instead of dollars. Think a single food supply monopoly with patented seeds you can be prosecuted for propagating, and harmful additives in food because it's cheaper. Think better education inaccessible for those nincompoops who weren't born into wealth. Serves them right for choosing to be born poor, amirite?

Some amount of regulation is required if you want a just, healthy, society, with economic mobility.

People say they want 100% free markets but they don't really comprehend what that looks like.

Just like Kyrie Irving is a talented basketball player but also a catastrophically-deluded flat-earther, it's just as possible for gifted software engineers to have flawed reasoning about the economy.

>Why would non-technical users be looking at raw URLs?

Surely you jest. Have you heard of this thing called the address bar? Do you think non technical folks don't know what "Google.com" is?

How many normies working office jobs get it drilled into them "don't open links if you don't recognize the domain"?

How do normies share urls? They paste them into Whatsapp group chats.

I'm in the minority and think the tutorial is awful. "Here's this software everyone says is so great. Before you can actually use it, be sure to spend 20 minutes doing a bunch of stuff for which you don't have context/don't have motivation for"

No thanks.

Instead, literally just start using it and ask an LLM for help as you go.

This is irrelevant. The point I'm responding to is this:

>I think something like IPFS is definitely needed. There is nothing stopping you from distributing a webapp on bittorrent but you'll also need to add a README for instructions on how to run the webapp on localhost so a browser can render it. So thats not something that any non-technical user wants to do.

This quoted comment assumes there's a web app that is sufficiently complex as to require a readme to run it, but that's too complex for normal people.

But somehow, a link that looks like `ipfs://12340-9q5ui1j2;lk3rjq;ladksfj` won't scare those same people off?

Color me extremely skeptical.

The number of normies visiting urls directly from a CDN is a rounding error.

Non technical users like pronounceable domain names. It's why we aren't just using IP addresses.

CAS is intimidating to non-technical types.

Content-addressable storage as a whole is a non-starter with non-technical users.

Isn't encryption forbidden on the amateur bands? Pretty useless if you can't run TLS.

How is that different than the Tea Party republicans?

>I think you're not understanding what I wrote.

Entirely possible.

>Feel free to try again.

Feel free to add clarification.

What about it

What if you hire a firm to build you a 25-storey office tower? Do you care if the firm's structural engineer actually went to engineering school?

I sure do.

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think it's pretty obvious what parent poster was implying. Pedantic nitpicks add nothing to the discussion.

edit: sigh, fucking rate limits are such a dumb mechanic if you want quality long-form discussion. By the time I can reply nobody will be looking at their replies.

anyways LLMs might displace "programmers" in the way that 3D CAD software replaced draftsmen, but software engineering, the actual design and architecture skill, isn't going anywhere. I can use carpentry tools to build a bridge over a creek but I'm not qualified to build a bridge carrying Interstate traffic.

>There's a reason they go together..

They're all self-regulating professions with licensing bodies and professional standards?

>Basically, being a rich public company provides legal advantages when the US government has similar goals.

This has always been the case. It's why lots of us who came up in the 80s and 90s embraced the "fuck corporations" and "information wants to be free" zeitgeist of the times.

It's also why the corporate bootlicking on this site is so grating at times. IDK, maybe I'm the only one but it seems like the veneer has worn off and over the last couple years I've realized HN is "special", not because of the reasons its proponents will recite but because it's where you come to post about the interesting technical challenges you solved while designing a system that goes down to the corner store and buys Hitler a pack of his favorite smokes and everyone laps that up.

>"While accelerating our migration to Azure," meaning, they will only solve problems if it helps them also use Azure more.

Look, I hate Microslop as much as anyone but you'd have to purposely misinterpret TFA in order to arrive at this interpretation. C'mon.

Oh, I hate this sentiment so very much.

Example: The song "We Are Young" by fun features the following lyrics.

    My seat's been taken by some sunglasses /
    asking 'bout a scar, and /
    I know I gave it to you months ago / 
    I know you're trying to forget /
    But between the drinks and subtle things /
    The holes in my apologies, you know /
    I'm trying hard to take it back

The aspiring song analyst might think it's about the singer being asked by a cop (wearing sunglasses) asking about him abusing his girlfriend, or whatever, but Nate Ruess is on record saying it's just about being hung over, and no more deep than that.

Projecting meaning where there is none, or where the meaning is clear, is simply not valid even for Shakespeare.

I bet it's a contributing factor.

Politics is almost entirely about image over substance. If you're a government bureaucrat, do you really want to risk your/your party's electoral chances by proposing switching from Big Tech to something with anime furries all over it?

There is no vampire in all of literature able to suck blood from victims as well as high school English classes are able to suck all the joy from reading.

Here's a seminal work of literature. Instead of taking your time and reading it, write an essay about something you don't give a shit about that's tangentially related to the book.

>You get 'coins' for a daily check-in, which are automatically(?) applied as a discount.

This should be illegal

Drag is linear with velocity under Stokes' Law which assumes laminar flow and a very very low Reynolds number, and does not apply to ballistic projectiles flying through air.

Aerodynamic drag on the kinds of things that are involved in trebuchets is always quadratic with velocity.

What about a mailing list and `git format-patch`?

I'm not seeing this on my site (if you want to check: https://stackgho.st), are you using their `strict` http settings? I.e. is your server terminating TLS or is theirs?

edit: perhaps it's only for sites added after that policy came into effect

Phrases experiencing discomfort

Nor about my circa 2003 gaming PC cobbled together from leftover parts from past builds, using copper wire to provide a common ground that pizza box cardboard cannot.

It's never been clear to me why NSA's "blue team" directorates haven't been spun off into a separate agency. Sure, NSA strengthened the S-boxes in DES and SHA-1 but from the outside there's no way to know whether they're making DES stronger against differential cryptanalysis or whether they're introducing a DUAL_EC-style vulnerability.

I'm sure there's a game-theoretic optimum choice when it comes to accepting proposals from the NSA vs rejecting them out of hand, but I'm not sure what that optimal choice is.

OpenPGP key servers are an internet draft, if memory serves. I guess they don't exist either.