I have a Hisense HiReader Pro and it's awesome + super usable for actual day to day phone things on wifi, but the cell reception overlaps with a single LTE band in the US that's not really usable around where I live.

I have a HiSense HiReader Pro that I picked up right when it came out. It's absolutely loaded with nonsense + makes zillions of requests to Chinese IPs and it takes ages to figure out how to disable / block it all.

It also only works on a single GSM band in the US (which to be fair, I knew before I bought it), but I was hoping that single band would be usable.

I went back to using a Kindle because the experience is so much better all around. Vaguely intrigued by the new Boox Palma though.

Seems like this is more of a "PostgreSQL distribution with search extensions" than "ParadeDB is an open source ElasticSearch alternative built on Postgres..."

Interesting, sure, but confusing marketing/positioning at a glance

ParadeDB author here. You're right, currently we only do the "Search" in Elastic, but we're planning to do real-time analytics, logs processing, etc. eventually

Except for technical correctness maybe I don’t see your point. What’s wrong about saying it is built on Postgres and provides the elastic search functionality?

fwiw that's a vehicle with a modified exhaust (and not a particularly fast one to begin with)

Also anecdotally in this group - switched from AT&T yearly prepaid (25$/m or so) to post-paid Verizon because it got worse and worse over the three years I had it. Throttling got significantly worse over time and had a number of support issues with the yearly setup.

> American pickup truck driver never asks his gigantic blacked-out coal-rolling Ford F-150 Raptor

I'd love to know how a gasoline powered F-150 can roll coal.

Fastmail!

It'd be an excellent joke to not fix it

I can’t wait for the day the EU actually tries to enforce their laws on individuals and companies with no presence there. Will be a fun extradition battle to watch

No EU country would ever try to extradite anyone over a GDPR violation...

International companies that choose to process data from EU citizens but blatantly ignore the regulation will be subject to enforcement action from the country's supervisory authority. The supervisory authority has the power to "order the suspension of data flows to a recipient in a third country or to an international organisation" or "to impose a temporary or definitive limitation including a ban on processing".

In practice, this means you can say goodbye to doing business with your EU customers if you don't want to play by the rules. I doubt it'll be much of a loss for them to lose access to services provided by a company that doesn't care about their customers' privacy.

As ever, a significant minority of Americans on Hacker News really Just Do Not Grasp the benefit of the EU or its regulations such as GDPR. "All regulation must be bad!!" It's quite tiresome, really.

> As ever, a significant minority of Americans on Hacker News really Just Do Not Grasp the benefit of the EU or its regulations such as GDPR. "All regulation must be bad!!" It's quite tiresome, really.

Now you know how we feel when Europeans pontificate about issues in the US without really knowing anything beyond the headline.

Also, FWIW a lot of HN participants are in California, which has CCPA. Your stats may well be objectively wrong anyway.

It wouldn't be extradition, it would be sanctioning. Same mechanisms and difficulties apply as trying to sanction Russian oligarchs.

I assume all they'll do is block the websites so EU citizens can't reach them.

Many of the points in this article are entirely a matter of implementation, not inherent to or ingrained in any particular architectural choice.

You can just as easily build a highly modular and decoupled monolith as you can a tightly coupled and fragile microservice. The same point holds true for many of the other pro/cons the author brought up.