The GitHub Arctic Code Vault • Hacker News Board

Re: The GitHub Arctic Code Vault

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Post by tuananh » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

rezendi wrote: post #67

1337shadow wrote: post #46

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They've just archived the HEAD of the 6000 most popular repos > We’ve archived 6,000 of the world’s most popular repositories as a proof of concept for future archives. > The snapshot will consist of the HEAD of the default branch of each repository, minus any binaries larger than 100KB in size.

Archive Program director here - the 6,000 repos were on the single proof-of-concept reel we archived last autumn. The full archive consists of millions of repos, including all repos with at least one star with any commits in the year leading up to 02/02/2020.

where can we find the full list of the 6000 archive repo?

Re: The GitHub Arctic Code Vault

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Post by Zamicol » Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

They __are not__ using QR code for storage as has been misreported by a few media outlets.

See https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/3222865/170922-Piql-... for piql's storage method.

Re: The GitHub Arctic Code Vault

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Post by rejschaap » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 7:42 PM UTC

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #34

rob-olmos wrote: post #29

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I don't think so. Project Silica talks about storing the data in droplet-looking voxels rather than etching language symbols. Cool video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CzHsibqpIs

But, from the article, it doesn't look like they used Project Silica here, they used piqlFilm.

Yeah, Project Silica is another project within the GitHub Archive Program. You can see the microfilm in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o&feature=youtu.be...

Re: The GitHub Arctic Code Vault

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Post by eezurr » Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 9:06 PM UTC

Gollapalli wrote: post #6

Beautiful. Honestly, nothing scares me more than losing all the code and all the technology we've developed in the past 70 or so years. There's been so much advancement, but it's also transferred in such a way (institutional knowledge, propietary software, proprietary hardware, etc.) that it's super easy to lose. If we preserve open hardware and software, then we could rebuild in the case of civilizational decline an…

>Honestly, nothing scares me more than losing all the code and all the technology we've developed in the past 70 or so years

I think We'll be fine (as in, our species will survive). If we lose it all, we can rebuild. We've already proven that we're capable. The code is a just a record of our capabilities, not a barrier to entry.

Re: The GitHub Arctic Code Vault

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 5:17 AM UTC

Zamicol wrote: post #92

They __are not__ using QR code for storage as has been misreported by a few media outlets. See https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/3222865/170922-Piql-... for piql's storage method.

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Re: The GitHub Arctic Code Vault

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Post by cmrx64 » Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

rezendi wrote: post #70

cmrx64 wrote: post #11

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it's probably less effort to just archive the whole damn thing and let the future figure it out than to decide important things to archive and leaving everything else to disappear someday

Archive Program director here. One of the most interesting things our advisory committee told us is that it's really hard to determine what's important in advance: history is replete with lists composed by wealthy people of the books they thought most important, carefully preserved for posterity, whereas what modern historians _really_ want is ordinary people's shopping lists, of which almost none survived. That's on…

thank you so much for doing this work btw, archival is one of my loves :)