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My program ran 3x slower on AWS t4g instances than on my mac.

Where can you get the fastest cpus for VPS hosting?

Does the compensation listed on YC jobs include stock converted to cash?

For example, Retool (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retool) claims to be paying $600k to someone with 6 years experience. I find this hard to believe.

I see no "sponsored" labels on Google shopping results. Does anyone else? How do you tell when it's an ad?

TLDR: weird treatment of global/nonlocal in CodeSignal, probably because they're wrapping the function.

I nearly lost a job offer today because CodeSignal does not execute 'real' Python.

Minimal example:

x = {} def f(): global x x['key'] = 'value' f()

This will succeed in real python, but fail in CodeSignal. To make it work in CodeSignal, you need to change "global" to "nonlocal":

x = {} def f(): nonlocal x x['key'] = 'value' f()

This will fail in Python! This should definitely come with a disclaimer on their site. It's criminal that you can write correct python and they can incorrectly mark your code as nonfunctional.

Perhaps I shouldn't give a minimal example, but only tell CodeSignal that their Python build was failing on my hidden test case...

Is there a service that proxies internet traffic and is capable of caching petabytes of responses? Like a reverse cloudflare, but cached within the datacenter you are accessing it from.

Imagine a job that needs to access the internet and render webpages, but you want to reduce the latency of the webpages.

What is the cheapest and most efficient way to make a map from keys to values at very large scale, perhaps several petabytes?

When you query, the results are allowed to be a little stale.

It should be available to several boxes on a datacenter. Services that provide this are acceptable.

What is a service that can store large files with low latency? S3/Cloud storage usually has latencies of 300-450ms.

Is there an option with latencies less than 50ms and reasonable storage costs?

War stories of unusually sized databases or performance characteristics?

In the past few months, especially with AI, there have been a lot of posts "[company] releases [product]", where a company has not in fact released a product—they're just testing it with their friends in closed alpha/beta; you click through and it's just an email signup waitlist to be notified when the product is ready.

Is there some kind of flag or tag for these? How can I distinguish real releases from "we're in testing"/"we will release soon" announcements?

Can we start tagging these?

The following chrome extension seems to accomplish the magic of bypassing a server-side paywall.

How? Server-side means the content isn't even sent to the browser. What can the browser do?

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

If it simply visits sites, it will face a paywall too. If it identifies itself as archive.is, then other people could identify themselves the same way.