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>‘BUTTHOLIO’

These guys always seem to have the most stereotypical or corny hacker handles. Is that expected / desirable in that community?

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I do think it’s funny how that might be a character revealing moment, suggesting the hacker is Gen X or at least elder millennial age.

I did toy with the idea of trying do analysis of HN aliases and keywords. It never went anywhere, because I forgot about it, but a longer weekend is coming:D But yeah, language betrays, who we are in references alone.

There's no way you could determine how old a person is or what technologies they enjoyed way back in college solely from a username.

Are you just trying to goad them into showing they can? :D

-gopher- space made the comment you are replying to.

Have fun analyzing the alias I pulled from /dev/urandom!

Knows of the existence of /dev/urandom, must be old! ;)

Give them a break. They need tp.

Why would they need tp?

The bungholio name is a reference to the bevis and butthead name where they’d say, “I am cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole”. You really had to be there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv2dIM3t9I

Oh, I was there. heeheeBUNGholeheehee

The unregistered hyper cam 2 banner ties the whole compilation together.

ಠ_ಠ

edit: okay fine I'll bite -- because of chicken piccata

corny

I see what you did there.

The real question is: who calls their company "Snowflake"? It's just crying to get stomped on.

Snowflake did the biggest epic fail of the ZIRP era. They bought streamlit (a python GUI front end for ML demos) for 800 MILLION dollars.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/02/snowflake-acquires-streaml...

Huggingface bought its biggest competitor, Gradio (still used more than Streamlit) for an "undisclosed" amount of money a year or so before hand. I'd wager HF paid on the orders of 1-5 million.

That is amazing! What a coup. I thought streamlit was pretty cool, but surely it wasn't $800m cool.

Salesforce purchased Mulesoft for $6.5 billion. Mulesoft was so successful they decided to buy a different ETL tool Informatica. But the deal fell through. Mulesoft has about 1500 clients vs 9500 clients for Informatica.

Comparing a disclosed sale price to an unknown theoretical sale price is a bit unfair though. Maybe it was 801 million.

No way, HF didn't have anywhere near that kind of money when they acquired Gradio. I think they did it back in 2020 or 2019. I know for a fact it was a tiny sum.

I doubt Gradio is used more than streamlit. And so does Google [1]

I know that's not exact, but if more people used Gradio, you'd expect at least a somewhat similar number of people searching for it online. Gradio is not even in the same ballpark as Streamlit here.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=%2...

I don't know what to say except that the overwhelming majority of HF spaces are made as Gradio demos and that gradio's whole design makes it far easier to do async things unrelated to reloading the webpage - which is a huge thing for ML/AI demos.

I don't claim you're wrong, but I claim that gradio is far more effectively profitable to know than streamlit is - i.e. Gradio demos are used far more for a top AI paper demo (i.e. NeurIPS system demos) than Streamlit is.

Snowflake is a type of multidimensional schema. It's a normalized star schema. Both named for the appearance of their entity relationship diagrams.

Snowflake schema is obviously the etymology, but the official story is that the founders “really like skiing.” It’s always aggravated me. I just assume the CEO told them to go with that instead.

I believe the hacker known as 4chan once explained they choose their handles “for the lulz”

Legion of Doom / Masters of Deception would like a word.

Phiber Optik just doesn't have the same haha you said peepee vibe.

Yes

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