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It's not that Russia Bad, it's that if you know a search engine will serve you censored, biased results that makes it an unreliable search engine.
Only if you're searching for censored things.
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Not for being Russians, but for active participation in censorship by tweaking their news aggregation to show only hand picked government approved sources
Is there a source for this? I'm curious.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4975254
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/04/18/yandeks-ubral-izpoisko...
https://zona.media/news/2021/12/25/oiya
https://www.rbc.ru/politics/07/09/2021/613709739a79476fd52e1...
They are complying with russian censorship laws and it's gotten so bad that they are planning to sell the news service altogether to VK which is far worse than Yandex when it to how eager they are to enforce these laws and to work with cops.
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#234Is there a way for developers, who do not have AI/ML background, to get started using this ? I have been curious about GPT-3 but I do not have any AI/ML experience or knowledge. Is there a "approachable" course on Coursera or Udemy that could help me get started with technologies like GPT ?
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#235Side note: Yandex search is awesome, and I really hope they stay alive forever. It's the only functional image search nowadays, after our Google overlords neutered their own product out of fear over lawyers/regulation and a disdain for power users. You can't even search for images "before:date" in Google anymore.
> Google overlords neutered their own product out of fear over lawyers/regulation What kind of lawyers/regulation do you have in mind? If anything, I'd find the opposite: lawyers and copyright holders should be grateful for such a tool that - when it was still working - allowed you to trace websites using your images illegally. Now they all use Yandex for this purpose, with relatively good results.
You misunderstood parent post. It's about Google not being sued for discrimination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/08/does-goog...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-19/google-qu...
https://theconversation.com/googles-algorithms-discriminate-...
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This is nothing like that, because the question is not one of their own personal actions - but of their nationality or ethnicity. That, until about 4 months ago, would have been widely acknowledged as racism. The difference between holding values, and holding values when convenient rather sums up the entirety of human history in one phrase.
Yeah, it's certainly about ethnicity, not at all about being controlled by a government which is in the process of perpetrating genocide.
I'm ethnically Russian (mostly), although I've never been to that country and have less influence on their foreign policy than your average European (who at least has some say in how his own country behaves towards Russia — and we've seen how well they managed that). I don't know how this would translate to the real world if I lived in "the West", but from what I'm seeing on the internet for the past few months, it definitely is about ethnicity. I've been called many things and blamed for everything bad that has happened since 1945, and not many seem to care that half of Putin's army consists of people of Asian and Caucasian ethnicities, and there are many Russians in the Ukrainian army. If you go to places like r/worldnews, there are open calls for violence that have strong fascist overtones, and those seem to be getting more popular.
Can't say the same about HN, it's one of the few places that seems to have kept its sanity (for now?)
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Bad comment. First, can you please name the founder? Because according to wiki Ilya Segalovich never lived in Israel and Arkady_Volozh lives in Tel Aviv (Not a settlement). Both Jewish, so why present it as some "must-be-hidden-cause" connection with Israel? Also, nothing shady from Israel side in term of sanctions. They have a large Jewish community in both Russia and Ukraine and need to be on good term with both to…
Many people consider all of Israel to be an illegitimate Western colonial settler state in the Middle East.
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What have Israel connections got to do with shadiness? What are you insinuating?
Settling land that was recently taken from Palestinian families by force, often (literally) knocking the existing houses over with a bulldozer. In my opinion, that's a moral red flag to participate in such an atrocity.
Have you seen what America has done in the Middle East the last 20 years? If you want to make a moral point then you should start there instead of trying to grind whatever axe you have against Israel.
Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters
#239Side note: Yandex search is awesome, and I really hope they stay alive forever. It's the only functional image search nowadays, after our Google overlords neutered their own product out of fear over lawyers/regulation and a disdain for power users. You can't even search for images "before:date" in Google anymore.
FWIW, https://same.energy/ seems to work fine for me
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Source for all the claims?
2) https://www.businessinsider.com/yandex-russia-former-news-di...
>The ex-head of news at Russia's largest internet company has advice for his former colleagues: quit.
>Lev Gershenzon worked at Yandex in various roles for four years, according to his LinkedIn profile. He took to Facebook early Tuesday morning to warn people still working at the company — which is one of the largest search engines in Russia — that it was contributing to the censorship of the country's invasion into Ukraine.
>"The fact that a significant part of the Russian population may believe that there is no war is the basis and driving force of this war," Gershenzon wrote, also tagging six of his former coworkers. "Today, Yandex is a key element in hiding information about war. Every day and hour of such "news" costs human lives. And you, my former colleagues, are also responsible for this."
2) https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/16/russia-yandex-news-vk/
>Yandex’s former head of news accused the company of being a ‘key element in hiding information’ from Russians about the war in Ukraine.
3) Result of Yandex's slower crawler and default display mode, although the effect is as described: https://twitter.com/maryilyushina/status/1510930537187319813...