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> go fg cry about github you fg piece of s*t n**r, I hope your throat gets cut open and every single family member of you is burnt to death Are github user

> go f**g cry about github you f**g piece of s*t n**r, I hope your throat gets cut open and every single family member of you is burnt to death Are github users gamers? Really puts the "git" into "github" there.

zer0tonin 3y ago
No, but I assume a lot of AI bros are
- obiefernandez 3y ago
  ffs, can we just not make this a thing?
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    Too late, a demographic or people who could just barely scrape together a script making REST requests are now selling themselves as “AI specialists” or “prompt engineers” to the corporate class. These are this cycles cryptobros, who were mostly not engineers but people riding a hype wave. The age of the AI bro is here, and as I’ve been in the space as someone genuinely interested in the models, working with them from time to time, for a while. I’m giving a lot of eye rolls in meetings when these people start talking about the underlying tech.
    - foobarbazetc 3y ago
      “Prompt engineers”… sigh.
      - arp242 3y ago
        Some complex shell prompts I've seen people use definitely must have required a fair bit of engineering!
    - hooomil 3y ago
      [dead]
    - arp242 3y ago
      Booming industries always attracts its fair share of snake oil peddlers I suppose. From "Webmasters" who could barely program a VCR during the dot-com era to "SEO specialists" to "Crypto bros" and now "AI bros".
  - faangsticle 3y ago
    Too late, the AI bros already did.
  - testacct22 3y ago
    It's a thing lol The other day I saw some gym bro in the IG comment section trying to flex on people with "do you even know what backpropagation is?"
arp242 3y ago
Some more here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.403220/gov.uscourts.cand.403220.68.1.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.403220/gov.uscourts.cand.403220.68.2.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.403220/gov.uscourts.cand.403220.68.3.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... Friendly people. I've received emails like that too over the years. What hugely controversial thing do I do? I have a website where I sometimes write about $stuff and I post on HN. Keeping the basic info private is probably a good thing especially if they're based in the US, because "SWATting" etc, but beyond that it doesn't seem "credible" in the sense that it's very likely someone will show up at their door with a gun. Since the first two are redacted, I wonder if they sent them with their real names.
- z3t4 3y ago
  It can be explained by the normal curve. The bigger your audience is the weirder the outliers will be.
  - arp242 3y ago
    Pretty much, yeah. There's about 26.8 million developers in the world. Assuming 5 million read this story (not everyone speaks English) and 0.01% of people is a bit unhinged then you've got 50,000 unhinged people, and only about 0.006% of those 50,000 (or 0.00006% of total) need to be unhinged enough to actually shoot off an email.
web3-is-a-scam 3y ago
Considering how large GitHub is (in the industry) it’s like asking is “are Facebook users gamers”?
- notjoemama 3y ago
  That's what struck me about it too. Isn't it the case in a large enough population you can always find representation of something you dislike or hate? I've seen lists of "Republicans" (meaning anyone in, near, or related to a Republican politician) showing those people being caught or convicted of various moral, economic, and social "crimes". Ok. But if I sat down and looked using the same criteria, couldn't I just as easily create a long list for the Democrat party? Having made that statement on Reddit, the response I got was, "well, there are MORE republicans". That struck me as odd too. Are you trying to say of the two horrible things, one is worse, and so I have a moral imperative to chose the less horrible one? I'm fairly sure I get to abandon both in search of a better option. lol
  - bandyaboot 3y ago
    > I've seen lists of "Republicans" (meaning anyone in, near, or related to a Republican politician) showing those people being caught or convicted of various moral, economic, and social "crimes". Ok. I’m intrigued. I’d like to see the subset of the list that are people who were in Republican politicians.
indrora 3y ago
An impressive number of 4chan's /g/ users are on github. Some even actively contribute to Linux (though usually to Arch, Gentoo, and now more and more Nix). I wrote a paper during college that I should release some time about when /g/ threw an absolute shitfit over Linus going "so, I've been a kinda shit human being to people and I'm going to step back and get some help", going as far as to blame his daughter/"the woke mob"/multiple named core kernel contributors for killing their god. At one point, I attended a GitHub event that wasn't directly sponsored by github but encouraged a lot of github users to show up. While there I met several people who, outside the venue, were talking animatedly about Terry Davis. Listening in on the conversation revealed that they more or less just approved of his extensive use of racist language and epithets. I haven't checked, but I would suspect that Linus' recent "trans rights" by proxy post has caused at least one or two aneurisms in the /g/ user group.
- StrauXX 3y ago
  I would love to read that paper if you do decide to publicise it! 4chan mob dynamics never fail to make interesting (albeit often nasty) stories.
- Dma54rhs 3y ago
  /g/ is pretty mainstream among the zoomers they browse it publicly. Also 4chan is among one of the most popular websites on the internet so it doesn't come off as a surprise.
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    A large number of people you meet, from all walks of life, will admit that 4chan is a guilty pleasure. At least I’ve met a ton and none of them were right leaning to say the least.
    - waboremo 3y ago
      That would be my general theory as well, you're far more likely to meet someone who is left leaning who admits to having posted on 4chan (or still does) than you are otherwise. Maybe it has to do with perceived biases, in that a right leaning person/group is probably then going to feel they are aligned with the seediest aspects of 4chan, whether they actually do or not and their perceived social impact/failings for using 4chan.

> go f**g cry about github you f**g piece of s*t n**r, I hope your throat gets cut open and every single family member of you is burnt to death Are github user

zer0tonin 3y ago

No, but I assume a lot of AI bros are

obiefernandez 3y ago
ffs, can we just not make this a thing?
- edgyquant 3y ago
  Too late, a demographic or people who could just barely scrape together a script making REST requests are now selling themselves as “AI specialists” or “prompt engineers” to the corporate class. These are this cycles cryptobros, who were mostly not engineers but people riding a hype wave. The age of the AI bro is here, and as I’ve been in the space as someone genuinely interested in the models, working with them from time to time, for a while. I’m giving a lot of eye rolls in meetings when these people start talking about the underlying tech.
  - foobarbazetc 3y ago
    “Prompt engineers”… sigh.
    - arp242 3y ago
      Some complex shell prompts I've seen people use definitely must have required a fair bit of engineering!
  - hooomil 3y ago
    [dead]
  - arp242 3y ago
    Booming industries always attracts its fair share of snake oil peddlers I suppose. From "Webmasters" who could barely program a VCR during the dot-com era to "SEO specialists" to "Crypto bros" and now "AI bros".
- faangsticle 3y ago
  Too late, the AI bros already did.
- testacct22 3y ago
  It's a thing lol The other day I saw some gym bro in the IG comment section trying to flex on people with "do you even know what backpropagation is?"

arp242 3y ago

Some more here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.403220/gov.uscourts.cand.403220.68.1.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.403220/gov.uscourts.cand.403220.68.2.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.403220/gov.uscourts.cand.403220.68.3.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... Friendly people. I've received emails like that too over the years. What hugely controversial thing do I do? I have a website where I sometimes write about $stuff and I post on HN. Keeping the basic info private is probably a good thing especially if they're based in the US, because "SWATting" etc, but beyond that it doesn't seem "credible" in the sense that it's very likely someone will show up at their door with a gun. Since the first two are redacted, I wonder if they sent them with their real names.

z3t4 3y ago
It can be explained by the normal curve. The bigger your audience is the weirder the outliers will be.
- arp242 3y ago
  Pretty much, yeah. There's about 26.8 million developers in the world. Assuming 5 million read this story (not everyone speaks English) and 0.01% of people is a bit unhinged then you've got 50,000 unhinged people, and only about 0.006% of those 50,000 (or 0.00006% of total) need to be unhinged enough to actually shoot off an email.

web3-is-a-scam 3y ago

Considering how large GitHub is (in the industry) it’s like asking is “are Facebook users gamers”?

notjoemama 3y ago
That's what struck me about it too. Isn't it the case in a large enough population you can always find representation of something you dislike or hate? I've seen lists of "Republicans" (meaning anyone in, near, or related to a Republican politician) showing those people being caught or convicted of various moral, economic, and social "crimes". Ok. But if I sat down and looked using the same criteria, couldn't I just as easily create a long list for the Democrat party? Having made that statement on Reddit, the response I got was, "well, there are MORE republicans". That struck me as odd too. Are you trying to say of the two horrible things, one is worse, and so I have a moral imperative to chose the less horrible one? I'm fairly sure I get to abandon both in search of a better option. lol
- bandyaboot 3y ago
  > I've seen lists of "Republicans" (meaning anyone in, near, or related to a Republican politician) showing those people being caught or convicted of various moral, economic, and social "crimes". Ok. I’m intrigued. I’d like to see the subset of the list that are people who were in Republican politicians.

indrora 3y ago

An impressive number of 4chan's /g/ users are on github. Some even actively contribute to Linux (though usually to Arch, Gentoo, and now more and more Nix). I wrote a paper during college that I should release some time about when /g/ threw an absolute shitfit over Linus going "so, I've been a kinda shit human being to people and I'm going to step back and get some help", going as far as to blame his daughter/"the woke mob"/multiple named core kernel contributors for killing their god. At one point, I attended a GitHub event that wasn't directly sponsored by github but encouraged a lot of github users to show up. While there I met several people who, outside the venue, were talking animatedly about Terry Davis. Listening in on the conversation revealed that they more or less just approved of his extensive use of racist language and epithets. I haven't checked, but I would suspect that Linus' recent "trans rights" by proxy post has caused at least one or two aneurisms in the /g/ user group.

StrauXX 3y ago
I would love to read that paper if you do decide to publicise it! 4chan mob dynamics never fail to make interesting (albeit often nasty) stories.
Dma54rhs 3y ago
/g/ is pretty mainstream among the zoomers they browse it publicly. Also 4chan is among one of the most popular websites on the internet so it doesn't come off as a surprise.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  A large number of people you meet, from all walks of life, will admit that 4chan is a guilty pleasure. At least I’ve met a ton and none of them were right leaning to say the least.
  - waboremo 3y ago
    That would be my general theory as well, you're far more likely to meet someone who is left leaning who admits to having posted on 4chan (or still does) than you are otherwise. Maybe it has to do with perceived biases, in that a right leaning person/group is probably then going to feel they are aligned with the seediest aspects of 4chan, whether they actually do or not and their perceived social impact/failings for using 4chan.