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New comment by worldsoup in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

worldsoup — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:38:04 +0000

if you look at instacart's business model...they make barely any money on delivery. Vast majority of their profit is from advertising that they sell to brands. They create an audience of buyers with really good data and then monetize through advertising...so for the consumer you get very low cost delivery at the expense of seeing promoted products in the app.

No Free Tier for You

worldsoup — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dragonflydb.io/blog/no-free-tier-for-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175474

Points: 6

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New comment by worldsoup in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

worldsoup — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:20:05 +0000

you're right I don't...but people that listen to that stuff were probably never going to vote for anyone other than Trump (anymore than listeners to MSNBC were going to stray from Harris). My primary sources are relatively centrist sources like WSJ and Economist as well as a variety of independent podcasts and the NYTimes. With a few exceptions on the podcast front all of these outlets were unabashedly anti-trump.

New comment by worldsoup in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

worldsoup — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:55:37 +0000

If this was the case then it seems that Harris would have won the race...the vast majority of the media I saw here in the US was going on and on about how Trump was a grave danger to democracy and in general just a terrible person and candidate. In regards to the media, I think this election shows that a large majority of the population simply does not believe them at all.

Introducing: Dragonfly Cloud

worldsoup — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dragonflydb.io/blog/introducing-dragonfly-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989992

Points: 6

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New comment by worldsoup in "The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language"

worldsoup — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:03:01 +0000

ya there are many different giyongo to describe various states of exhaustion...probably due to the workaholic culture that is prevalent in Japan

New comment by worldsoup in "The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language"

worldsoup — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:59:02 +0000

definitely, you really need to master these to be anything close to native level

New comment by worldsoup in "The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language"

worldsoup — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:40:03 +0000

Super interesting article, as a native english speaker who lived in Japan for many years and speak Japanese fluently, he pointed out a lot of things I always took for granted in Japanese (and never recognized as unique). One things I was hoping he would point out, and that I always found extremely unique in Japanese, was the giyongo (basically onomatopoeia). Japanese uses these extensively and the sounds can have extremely sensory driven meanings. They use these giyongo to describe physical textures (tsuru-tsuru is something smooth and slippery), hard to describe souns (pera pera is the sound of speaking a foreign language), flutently), actual sounds (tatata is the sound of fast running), a general feeling (bisho bisho is the sound of being soaked), specific actions (gussuri is the sound of being out cold), even specific emotions (zukizuki is the sound of extreme pain). There are hundreds if not thousands of these and I think they also make the language, as the author describes, 'rich and quirky and different'.

New comment by worldsoup in "Single vendor is the new proprietary"

worldsoup — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:07:34 +0000

I think they are basically saying an OS project with a single commercial entity as the maintainer.

New comment by worldsoup in "Single vendor is the new proprietary"

worldsoup — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:06:19 +0000

This article is dramatically simplifying the state of software markets.

>Single vendor isn’t a reasonable way to do Open Source and resist evil proprietary software. It’s just another way to do proprietary software.

>proprietary software is not evil. It’s just inferior.

Based on these statements the author would have you believe there is no value in commercial/proprietary software and we should just never develop it. All software should be open and collaborative. That is obviously silly. While open source software is great, many incredible software innovations and truly valuable software comes from proprietary companies. In fact, these companies are typically the ones that make the large open source ecosystem possible by making massive donations in developer hours as well as cash to orgs like linux foundation.

The interesting discussion is in whether commercial software should be closed source or source available with restrictions. The days of building propriety, VC backed infrastructure software with a traditional permissible license are over and likely never coming back.

New comment by worldsoup in "The race to replace Redis"

worldsoup — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:59:43 +0000

it is free and source available...it's BSL which is slightly more permissive than SSPL that Redis adopted

A new sorted set implementation from ground up

worldsoup — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:31:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dragonflydb.io/blog/dragonfly-new-sorted-set

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39708602

Points: 1

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New comment by worldsoup in "Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]"

worldsoup — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 04:46:46 +0000

what specifically would be breaking EU/Dutch law here?

New comment by worldsoup in "Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults"

worldsoup — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:59:53 +0000

My grandfather was an academic who studied 'socially alienated adolescents' and was the original director of this program when it was developed back in the 60's. This is one of his original lectures on the social dynamics that drove the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPwV8miW46I&ab_channel=Natio...

New comment by worldsoup in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

worldsoup — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:59:00 +0000

this is definitely not true of SF...its very obvious for anyone walking around when you are in a good or bad part (parts of SOMA/Tenderloin/Civic Center/Western Addition). Most other parts of the, including where this crime happened, feel completely safe (and statistically are very safe).

Argentian Death Flight Plane

worldsoup — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:17:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/24/argentina-dictatorship-death-flight-plane-return-from-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35292303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by worldsoup in "Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21M)"

worldsoup — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:51:50 +0000

It really depends on the type of application but a common one is getting a large spike in traffic beyond the norm (front page on HN, flash sale, etc.) I do think #1 and #2 that you mentioned are more common constraints and are ones that also both addressed in Dragonfly (much more efficient memory utilization and ability to scale vertically which negates the need for complex orchestration)

New comment by worldsoup in "Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21M)"

worldsoup — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:45:37 +0000

Dragonfly employee here...where are you seeing the 25% increase in latency? that's not the case so want to make sure the post is not confusing.

New comment by worldsoup in "Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21M)"

worldsoup — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:13:26 +0000

not closed source https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly

New comment by worldsoup in "Redis vs. Dragonfly Scalability and Performance"

worldsoup — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:34:06 +0000

ya this is a new common licensing pattern used by a lot of database companies (cockroach, red panda, etc.)