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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by pshirshov »

viraptor wrote: post #265
pshirshov wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. I've attended a meeting on the subject where people decided to use English "not to be loosers" and I've heard similar stories from other teams and departments.

And what do they understand by "not be losers" in that case? What are the main ideas behind it?

Something like "if someone can't read English he is a bad engineer, if you write comments for bad engineers, you either are a bad engineer or a loser".

I've heard things like "we should grow up and use English".

They wanted to be an "elite" in contrast with russian-speaking "peasants".

The rational decision to use English was often motivated irrationally and was not about switching keyboard layouts. There were numerous discussions on the subject.

That is hard to analyze, I'm not a psychologist.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by throwaway0766 »

tpmx wrote: post #3

I was super impressed when I interacted with Yandex ML engineering people like a decade ago on a conf call - they were trying to sell us their services. Very smart and very clearly outward-looking. Haven't followed the company in detail since. Wonder what happened to them. [removed inaccurate details]

Yandex was probably one of the best and the most innovative Russian companies, and attracted the best workforce. But it cooperated with Putin's regime long before the war. It censored opposition narratives in its search results and promoted pro-Putin content [1]. It continues to promote Russian propaganda even today (try any Ukraine-related search query in Russian). Now it's under the oversight of a Putin's man, Alekei Kudrin [2].

Sadly, Yandex is not a neutral company and is just another weapon in Putin's hands.

[1]: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/a-story-of-non...

[2]: https://t.me/AlekseiKudrin/48

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by michens »

inhumantsar wrote: post #111
corytheboyd wrote: post #82

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Checked in private keys are fine if they're just used in tests, local development, etc.

Technically fine yes but from a habits and practice standpoint it's safest to stick to a "not ever" rule and work around the limitations.

Care to explain? Keeping private keys inside the repo sounds fine for me as long as these keys are only used for local development, they are rotated regularly and are only valid for localhost (in case of TLS certs).

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by not1ofU »

The_Colonel wrote: post #258
fIREpOK wrote: post #104

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Its good for privacy if you don't live in Russia... I don't think that they share the data with US governments?

Eh, it shares data with Russian government. If I have to choose between the two, I'll go with the US one.

why?

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by xaerise »

fIREpOK wrote: post #121
timka wrote: post #119

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I tend to think that it's not the govs tracking us that we should care about but the big tech. Yandex is one of them.

There are multiple levels of tracking... Governments being the top levels, then maybe global communication companies along with big tech titans... etc... AkA a complicated forest and/or tree of data?

And then we have China, where the big companies are required to share the data with the government if they request it.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

gspetr wrote: post #155
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #29

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Lingua franca with all their contractors most likely.

At first I wanted to give a serious reply, but then I saw your (very aptly chosen, given the context) username and found myself wondering if HN rules allow parody accounts... However, I'll give one for those who've missed the irony: It's considered gauche to have ubiquitous non-english comments. Pretty much the only kosher use case is when you have to warn people not to modify otherwise bizarre looking code because o…

I think it depends on what you're working on. I often find myself having to use legal terms for which there are no direct translations (because they do not exist in English-speaking countries), or there are analogous terms, but they do not mean exactly the same thing, or are very awkward to use (for example, a common abbreviation which everyone recognizes at once becomes something incomprehensible after translating it to English). So we can either use Russian for comments and git commits, or spend a bunch of time digging though specialized dictionaries and force everyone getting acquainted with the code base to do the same.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by quazar »

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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by The_Colonel »

not1ofU wrote: post #275
The_Colonel wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, it shares data with Russian government. If I have to choose between the two, I'll go with the US one.

why?

Because the Russian government is much more dangerous to me than the US one.

Russia sent agents to blow up an ammunition depot ~15 kilometers from where I lived (google "Vrbetice 2014" if interested), killing 2 people. Russia regularly poisons and assassinates people. I mean, I'm no big fish to be interesting for Russia, but still the comparison comes out clear.

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