he's using dingboard.com to edit his images. i believe the anime girl is one of the default images (or used to be) on a new canvas.

Maybe it works for a younger generation of nerds? Don't judge a book by its cover.

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This was my daughter.

will not stand this anti-anya slander

OP prolly channeling his inner Damian.

Creepy??

Interest to know why it is off putting.

Do you need cartoons of children in your readme to get the point across?

Does github need a cartoonish cat with 5 octopus-like legs to be its logo? Of course not, but it makes it memorable and funny. And besides, anime is extremely mainstream these days.

I would likely be just as put off by a picture of Spongebob or Goofy or Goku in a readme as Anya, fwiw.

maybe you should evaluate whether arbitrary societal norms of "professionalism" or something else are leading to you miss out on cool stuff

Wouldn’t quite go that far. I’ve only met one anime fan in my entire career.

Do you ask everyone you meet?

Then you must be old. Even in western countries Spy x Family (which the character is from) has sold millions of copies, while most people read mangas online and won't be counted. In the country I am from I frequently see people wearing merch of it, mostly because Uniqlo has had a successful line of it. And that is just one manga/anime out of hundreds of popular ones.

Using anime characters is similar to boomer nerds referencing Marvel/DC comics , Star Wars etc.

I wouldn't have prepared information this way, but judging by the immense popularity of _why in his day, I'm forced to assume that many prefer to have the cartoons

Those cartoon foxes secured his legacy, and to a significant extent, that of Ruby itself.

Does Docker need this "cartoon" of an otter to get the point across? https://github.com/docker/docs?tab=readme-ov-file

or this "cartoon" of an octopus? https://github.com/docker/compose

This seems to really just be "oldman-yelling-at-clouds-syndrome"

I for one welcome anime girls in readmes and hope to see more of it in the future if only because it seems to bother some of the old hoagies in the world for some reason.

I'm glad you enjoy anime girls but surely you can see why it's different than a project's logo?

One is directly related to the project, the other isn't. It's not even contextually related.

Python (the language) is named after "Monty Python's Flying Circus" simply because Guido was reading the scripts at the time:

> When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s. Van Rossum thought he needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python.

The cartoon is literally pointing at contextually relevant information, and it's far more pleasant to follow than yet another big red arrow. That said, I would have enjoyed my reading a bit more if the author utilized a more diverse cast of characters.

Why does github use an octocat as its logo? It's unrelated to software development

Is 29 considered old hoagie?

Old hoagie is more of a mindset. Anyone of any age can be an old hoagie if they like, all one has to do is practice getting upset when one sees anime girls, believe in the coming AI apocalypse and use Emacs.

Don't see how Emacs fits into this. At least I can sort lines there without another proprietary addon.

I would agree putting a cartoon character in readme, without any good context is definitely unprofessional. But would not go as far as offputting.

I didn’t not find it off putting. I found it quirky and less boring.

She is from a manga / anime called Spy × Family which has 8.3 on iMDb. The best spy on the planet pretends to be a family man for deep cover by adopting the girl (who can read minds, he doesn't know this) and quickly marries a woman (who is an assassin also looking for cover, he doesn't know this). They do their missions in-between roleplaying a perfect family.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13706018

I'm OK with that. I did find it distracting, because I knew the character (not very well, I thought the kid was the assassin) and the overall conceptual juxtaposition was... weird.

Beats a cheery AI voice, though.

> I must say the creepy anime young girl in the readme is somewhat off putting.

This statement is simply a variation of an ad hominem attack. It chastises the creator based on appearances that do not align with the niceties that the commenter deems appropriate.

Agreed. For me, the anime character is not "creepy" at all. In fact, I've seen various ML blogs use manga characters to guide the reader.

There is a time and place for everything. This isn't it.

In your bubble. In mine this is totally fine, even encouraged.

Indeed. In my company Slack, our primary professional communications tool, I can count a few people with anime avatars. Not very many, but it counts.

yuck

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

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

It's fun. Not everything has to be dry.

it's not creepy, it's from a popular anime/manga. It's just that the right wing in America (and other western nations) has tried to make us all feel guilty about anime because it doesn't fit their puritanical outlook on the world and that "the other" is bad, evil, and perverted, even though manga/anime has been mainstream for at least 3 decades now. Face it, not all the animation in the world has the same style and look as "traditional" USA animation or comics. Would you have been offended if it was the Charlie Brown kids?

just wait till left wing starts demanding african in every anime or samurai or historical movie. hollywood had already fallen.

Aha I'm starting to realise you only have to scroll a little down into literally any hacker news thread to find the right wing nutjob.

What is wrong with all of you people?

The comment is now flagged so I cannot read it, but none of that users previous comments appear indicative of such an alignment?

Is it that all these people you keep finding are truly fringe right-wing extremists, or are you perhaps being overzealous in your labelling of such?

I was exaggerating. It's only an occasional thing and no I don't mean its teaming with total unsalvageable hardened nazis obviously. But its more frequent and more reactionary than I would like, or than is common in other internet spaces I frequent.

What does the American right-wing have to do with this at all?

If anything I'd think its the opposite, there's a frequent stereotype about right-wing extremists having anime profile pictures.

And honestly, most of the right-wing people I know IRL are also into anime (though so are the left-wing people I know, so I don't think its really indicative of anything)

I must say I find your comment off putting.

I read this comment and I thought you were upset that it was sexualized, but when I looked, it wasn't at all. It might have well been a cute kitten or puppy doing the pointing, hard to get wound up about.

If this is the case, I feel as if you will be put off by a significant portion of ML engineers.

Security programmers and dev-ops people too. Two areas famously disproportionately represented by furries and co.

You should be off pudding

Have you looked at various models on Hugging Face? There are so many anime characters headlining the readme's. I think it's an interesting cultural disconnect to observe in this thread, but at the end of the day, open source projects like this are not obligated to be anything in particular, and entirely subject to the author's tastes.

ok boomer

Please don't do this here.

boring...

I have found his lack of proper order, grammar, punctuation, etc... is what lost me out there. This style is fine for 3-4 steps tutorial. But if you have something this long, then you need a proper Table of Contents and make sure to make it a professional old-fashioned doc.

You get ToC for free with GitHub's README renderer (top-right corner).

The lack of punctuation and capitalization is a weird zoomer style of writing in lowercase because "it's more chill." It is very common in people < 25 years old. They'll grow out of it.

It made is 10x better for me. Stop being boring. I like the anime. It's a popular anime. Loads of people like it and think this is funny.

It should be obvious that not liking something does not implying being boring.

Of course not. But calling other people's totally normal hobbies creepy is a bit rude and warrants an insult back.

I don't know why this is such a hot take.

Personally, I find it distracting when some devs start to "spice up" their presentation with manga characters, furry characters, memes, or whatever stuff they enjoy.

Shit, I love Zelda - but I wouldn't want Link all over my presentations. It just looks...juvenile and unprofessional. Doesn't mater if you're a beginner or world leading researcher, just keep it simple and undistracting.

EDIT: That said, I'm probably not the intended audience for this piece.

If young girls are creepy to you, you should stop watching B-tier horror franchises.

Well that escalated quickly...

Do you seriously not find this hilarious?

https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch/raw/main/ima...

Just treat it as a weird watermark. That's what works for me.

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

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