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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by ddorian43 »

mdaniel wrote: post #360
ddorian43 wrote: post #159

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> or a search engine I would guess the crawling to be the easiest part.

Maybe "easiest" in the "I can explain it to my mother" way, but as with many good things, the devil's in the details about that. That goes double now that Cloudflare have basically taken over some non-trivial portion of the Internet and they really do hate crawlers I have a theory that the big search engines have agreements in place for "side-channel" access to CF and Akamai POPs but I would guess none of the parties…

Cloudflare probably whitelists google/bing/etc. Hell, there are many sites that work with whitelists themselves. It's still the easiest part.

> but I would guess none of the parties involved have any incentive to discuss such a thing in a place that I could read it

This reminds me how all the tech sites banned people like Alex Jones simultaneously. It's collusion.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by varispeed »

throwaway0766 wrote: post #272
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, Alek…

Don't assume that just because people are highly educated and intelligent, they will be on the "good" side.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by stonepresto »

guilhas wrote: post #225
digianarchist wrote: post #4

https://breached.vc/Thread-yandex-git-sources

How is this site allowed to be live? Yandex source is cool. But there are a lot of leaks with people private data The US authorities move mountains for TornadoCash, Z-Library, etc... why leave this one?

This is basically a clone of RaidForums, which was taken down.

https://raidforums.com/

It's a cat-and-mouse game that will likely never end.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by wqewqewqe »

zadrot-lol wrote: post #354
capableweb wrote: post #21

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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…

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.com%3A1337%2Fannounce

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Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by aquarin »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #298
splix wrote: post #45

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It's inconvenient to switch the keyboard layout each time you write a comment.

New AZERTY also has Greek in addition to Latin, but sadly not Cyrillic (might be a nice project ?) https://norme-azerty.fr/en/

There are many "Cyrillic" variants.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by teetertater »

iavael wrote: post #324
teetertater wrote: post #180

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In Russia the copyright rules are more relaxed though. As long as you stay small nobody will enforce it

No, they are not. Laws are about the same.

It’s all about enforcement though. In North America you can’t walk into walmart and buy a pirated AAA game title with keygen and mods preinstalled on the disk

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by UltimateEdge »

com2kid wrote: post #145
xpe wrote: post #98

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> People have no further curiosity beyond working and making money in tech. For some, sure. There are also many who still explore, but qualitatively the overall culture feels very different. Unfortunately, there are employers who seem to want their employees to tinker, but own virtually everything they do, all while still playing lip service to supporting work-life balance, including parenting. So we get mixed messag…

> There are also many who still explore, but qualitatively the overall culture feels very different. I thought the same, then one day I stumbled onto a discord populated by teens and college students who were doing the same sort of shenanigans my friends and I were up to back in the day. The S/N ratio is worse, but there are still people out there having fun!

How did you stumble across such a group? I have been looking for a community like you describe since 2018, when I left the group I was part of at the time.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by xwolfi »

luciusdomitius wrote: post #125
Zetobal wrote: post #13

Interesting that most of the code comments are in English.

It is not really - if standard libs, APIs and frameworks are in English, it is either this or some weird 50%/50% mix, which is often ambiguous. It is a rather standard practice in all non-english speaking countries.

In France we're more 100% or 0%. You have people who really really want to use English and end up mistranslating most of the business logic in confusing spaghetti of almost-English and false friends, and you have people who tell you that to avoid being outsourced to India, we should comment everything in French. I worked on a spaghetti of bad English long enough that when I started having some power, I made us switch to use French everywhere, even variable names: this sounds awful at first, but then, a miracle door opens and you can sit down with your business expert and read through the logic with him and understand what was made and how it fit what he expected (since, ofc, he speaks no English whatsoever), even hours after having coded it and you already started to forget !

If I had to work again in a French company, I'd only use English if we were all perfectly fluent, otherwise it's just a mess, you have people, I don't know how they even learned programming, who know little to no English at all whatsoever writing variable names and comments in something so confusing and that no French reverse-translation can ever salvage.

Re: Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

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Post by xwolfi »

int_19h wrote: post #356
timka wrote: post #350

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In mid-00's I used to be frequent at a pub that was popular among expats and oil and IT industry professionals. I met a guy from the US there who was a professional translator and interpreter. He once told me that when he has to translate a business letter he finds Russian really cumbersome but when it comes to poetry he finds Russian so beautiful that English will never sound close to that. Also he gave me his copy…

Highly inflective languages are generally better for poetry because you can make so many more things rhyme with some creative effort. Having a lot of similar sounds (like all the hard/soft consonant pairs) also helps.

And poetry is so much more than the rhymes: it could be that this person didn't really know English poetry as well as Russian poetry, or that he was more easily impressed by exotism. I read French natively and have been living in English for 10 years and can now read Snow Crash-like stuff, and English always amazes me more than French, just because it can be so much richer than I'll ever produce myself, stuck to my French roots.

So if I read at random this in English: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43844/she-walks-in-be... and this in French: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Contemplations/R%C3%A9pon... , I can feel a mysterious beauty in English maybe I can't feel in a French poem, while the French one explodes in meaning, makes me think more than contemplate.

Rhymes are like a little funny exercise in poetry to add some music, but really far from the goal, or so I hope. I feel it's one of the many inputs: you have the rhymes, the rhythmic internal divisions of the stanza, the symmetry between them across the text, and you can add lots of little funny meta-meaning by reversing meaning in two halves of two successive stanzas, stuff like that. A poem is just a text that does more than transfer information at the first level, but does it on many more. English, Russian or French, they can all do it.

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