The meta refresh challenge actually uses time as the proof! It makes sure you wait for at least 75% of the time the administrator configured and adds client side smear to ensure that browser temporal randomization doesn't trigger a false failure.
That's the only theory we have that doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory. The only other credible ideas are that someone's doing some kind of dataset arbitrage by scraping the fuck out of everything and selling companies data that is technically new (by means of the scrape date being newer).
IPFS would be much better for something like LFS support than git repos itself. Git repos are very mutable bits of state and IPFS is best for immutable state. I'm aware of mutable IPFS pointers, but I think the best bet currently is to use immutable things for immutable objects and mutable things for mutable objects.
Author of the post here. I'll talk with someone I know at Gitea. I don't think this is viable to upstream into Gitea, but there's only one way to find out!
Author of the article here. I'm aware of ZeroFS and other similar approaches (such as something internal at Tigris that will become public at a later date), this was more of an experiment to see how far you can get with stuff I already had "on the shelf". I am going to be improving this a fair bit; I just need to plan out what I'm gonna work on and figure out the best times to stream it, etc.
The last time I evaluated doing protein folding it required gigabytes of disk-data to make it happen. If there's a way to do it without needing gigabytes of disk-data, I'm at least interested in hearing it out.
I'm gonna have to file the bug without a minimal reproduction case. The issue seems to be those try_table blocks getting nondeterministically reordered at link time (is it using machine pointers for iteration order?). Sadly I'm observing this with a local checkout of binaryen, so it may take a while for you to find the minimal reproduction case.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/xena; my proof: https://keybase.io/xena/sigs/FQWG1-ZoMRV-4vq1h8x0Vs0EK2VKP5QsRsECud4v7Zw ]
xena.at.hn
I'm starting to discontinue use of Hacker News. Please contact me over email if you want to catch up.