It's sad how counter productive the unreliable economic data is. The people buying groceries know that things are more expensive. And the people looking for a job know how hard it is to find work.

But this administration wants to say everything is fine, and fires those that say otherwise. So now unemployment seems under control even though it's not great.

Now the Fed, with their dual mandate to maintain a healthy labor market and control inflation, is considering raising rates. If it turns out the job market was much worse than we realized, raising rates could tank the economy more than it already is tanking. All because they wanted to pretend everything is fine.

You can blame both. The prosecutors and police that didn't do their proper due diligence, falsely imprisoning this woman, and held her for months without due process. And also the AI company that submitted a false police report and the defamation of character. There's no reason for either of them to escape the blame.

Previously shared at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264777

Previously shared at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264777

Recent versions of buildkit have added support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOC. I've been making the images reproducible before that with my own tooling, regctl image mod [1] to backdate the timestamps.

It's not just the timestamps you need to worry about. Tar needs to be consistent with the uid vs username, gzip compression depends on implementations and settings, and the json encoding can vary by implementation.

And all this assumes the commands being run are reproducible themselves. One issue I encountered there was how alpine tracks their package install state from apk, which is a tar file that includes timestamps. There are also timestamps in logs. Not to mention installing packages needs to pin those package versions.

All of this is hard, and the Dockerfile didn't make it easy, but it is possible. With the right tools installed, reproducing my own images has a documented process [2].

[1]: https://regclient.org/cli/regctl/image/mod/

[2]: https://regclient.org/install/#reproducible-builds