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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.

I wonder if that's a function of their technology or their database. Google's image search used to be good, but regulations have forced them to cripple it in some ways, and they might have chosen not to surface results in some contexts.

I don't seem to recall any big story about regulation at the time. It seemed that they carelessly had their internal facial recognition tools (probably also used in Picasa, etc. grouping by person) run on all public content, and the results were feed into public image search. Then people started to notice that Google knows about ALL of their photos posted on the Web, and that probably negatively affected their opinion on the prospects of sharing all their photos and personal data with corporations.

Also, such data collection abilities are generally limited to governments, so it was clear that many of them (US first and foremost) would ask for exclusion of certain individuals, and so forth, and so on, so the public tools were crippled.

Yandex image search does have some facial recognition, but it also seems bit-starved and/or mixed with text search (there's a bigger chance to match if the name and surname is present).

Also, Google is pretty Victorian about porn these days. It's almost like it has a whitelist of “acceptable” porn sites to suit the tastes of potentially angry old ladies.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Oh that code, Copilot generated it. I m innocent. The Copilot Defence

I must be writing very obvious glue code because I’ve only ever had copilot suggest very obvious glue code.

Very obvious glue code is 95% of what I write. It's the remaining 5% that justify my salary.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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> People avoid using BSD-licensed code in GPL code base Huh? I don't believe they do that. It's completely fine to use BSD in GPL code, but not the other way around.

It is fine to do either but the result is always a GPL license.

I actually laughed when I read this. It is a terrific, concise explanation of the nature of both licenses.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Could any kind soul out there upload the repositories to a public git instance?

No? It's 44GB of data. Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7e0ac90b489baee8a823381792ec67d465488fef&dn=yandexarc&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.co…

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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Note that Yandex currently seems to be made of “Yandex teams relocated out of the country” (say, 1/5th of the company, I don't have exact numbers), “Yandex teams inside the country”, and “Yandex brand services sold to other company”, so the internal access situation is complex.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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I think they also made it dumber after Bellingcat used it to identify a secret service officer. Interesting to see if we can find any trace of that in the git history.

Allegedly it's snapshot data, not the actual Git repositories.

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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.

Yandex regular search is very good too, especially at surfacing results which appear to be censored by Google. The only problem is the interface language keeps flipping back to Russian.

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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Intellectual property is a social construct that society decided was important enough. Often times there is no direct correlation between the "effort" and the "compensation" that IP enforcement enables.

Property rights are a social construct regardless of whether the property in question is intellectual. So what?

You are correct. Any bit of property that you aren't personally in physical possession of is a social construct.

Social consensus is the only reason that you can leave your car at the curb, and come back to it a week later, and still expect it to be yours. Social consensus is the only reason that you can own land that you don't personally use. Social consensus is the only thing that prevents people working at your widget factory from deciding on Tuesday that its actually their widget factory, and that they would be better off by cutting out the middleman.

There are very rare, very extreme situations in which this kind of social consensus is very prominently broken.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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I think the problem is people are entering a matured industry, all they know is the professional buttoned up culture we have today. People have no further curiosity beyond working and making money in tech. They do not have memories of a time when people tinkered around doing all kinds of crazy and possibly illegal stuff, just for fun, just to see if the could. Sad really.

The punishments are now somewhat known. I used to tinker with things that were questionable but after seeing what happened to swartz and others i stopped. It’s not worth it.

It is widely suspected that was the goal.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Anyone have insight what “skynet.tar.bz2” is?!

Skynet is a command execution and metric collection layer used in basic cluster ops. Nothing cool to be honest. Essentially it allows you to run a command on all the hosts matching a predicate. This was the easiest way to disrupt a whole datacenter for those who had enough privileges, I did it at least once. Also several times unnoticed bugs in my code shut down literally everything for noticeable periods of time. I'…

There's no confirmation about the number of machines the script is going to affect?
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