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> I might consider paying for premium if this wasn’t Google we’re talking about, which I imagine is tracking your viewing habits in their profile of you so they can serve targeted ads on other sites that use Google Ads.

So basically, you won't pay for premium because Google makes money by serving ads, but you also use an Adblocker (assumption)?

> As evidenced by the average RoI at Google compared to news organisations.

Not a good metric.

The ROI difference is because of both entities being in different industries, and other things unrelated to the power balance. We can similarly compare the ROI of a news organization and say a restaurant and lament that there is an imbalance of power.

Why not "it wasn't a good fit for me"? The first one kinda implies they didn't find you a fit? Not sure if I am reading too much into it.

While I agree with your point somewhat, the scale is completely different. Its not a black and white thing. I know a lot of people will disagree with this statement though.

As someone with ADHD, this is a constant in my life. In an ironic way, the anxiety when shit hits the fan is what makes me deal with stuff. But it's absolutely exhausting.

Interesting. Google Maps showed me which exit to use at stations in Japan, recently.

No, Gmail data isn't used for advertising. The difference is, that data won't be leaked to other users, but it's possible with ChatGPT or Bard.

Or Mercedes has certain reputation to maintain. This is not a dig at Tesla, but Mercedes not shipping L2 AP doesn't imply they aren't capable of it.

If I understand correctly, people can use Graphene OS anonymously. This was a workaround to use Google Play Services (Store?) anonymously. So the users want to have a piece of cake and eat it too.

There are multiple definitions of the word "experience". "User experience" is another term we often use, without it ever being compared to "a vacation".

> I don't want an 'experience', I want a tool.

> Every way a company interfaces with customers is an experience

Why can't it be both? As you pointed out, we also use "user experience" to denote "the overall experience of a person using a product". Standard search is one experience, this is another, other search engines provide another "experience". I don't just the use of the word being a "red flag". This is an utterly negative take.

I'd say it's a bit of both. You can build yourself up and find such work in companies which have it. Not switching employers very frequently helps, because building credibility takes time.

After you've built up credibility in some interesting tech, other companies would find you based on your work.

This is just my observation, so take it with a grain of salt

This is a pretty clickbaity. Having a cell phone wouldn't have "stopped" that boy from being able to stop the bus. Why are we even posting such links here?

> if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we *may* delete the account and its contents

This is what this policy announcement says.

They have released it I believe. I can see Palm being available: https://cloud.google.com/model-garden

Moreso, best is really a matter of perspective.

For some questions I asked, I liked Bards response, for some others I liked ChatGPT. Moreover, Bard is much newer vs ChatGPT had a lot of fine-tuning data from being used for a while now.

The "best" will change over time, and will depend on ease of use, speed, availability, how close they are, rather than just the "best response" to more types of questions.

A Chat app that is good enough, but with better integrations, enterprise support will be used by enterprises. Just like why Meet and Teams gained userbase over Zoom, even though they came in the game late.

> A sentence that reads "I am going to eat nothing but vegetables from now on" doesn't mention meat, but you can infer that I won't eat meat again from the sentence.

TBF, there is no mention of anything remotely similar to "I am going to eat nothing but vegetables from now on".

Somehow that has been my experience as well. I used to love HN for the rational and mature comments. Now, I find more of the comments to be idealistic and biased. More of the comments are from people who don't seem to have read the linked post.

Here's me trying to install HA a few months ago on an old Windows laptop:

"Oh, the HA OS requires a VM? Let me create one. But now, my bluetooth isn't accessible to HA. Oh well let me try Core. Great, but now I can't do automatic updates, or restore from backups. Ugh fine. I'll do it manually.

Some integrations needs setting up APIs? Well the documentation doesn't explain much. Oh this one needs me to setup external access using their service or set up a cert. Man this is a lot of work for some automation to turn on my lights or connect to the services I need.

Fuck, let me just do this all in Google Home."

Has Home Assistant reached Google or Alexa in setup?

Yep, HA has a lot of integrations to connect to different ecosystems. Fair warning though, setting it up and making it work requires good amount of work. I spent way too much time for on it for my basic needs and eventually gave up.

> Google has a console called panopticon where they can see every Chromebook in the world.

I bet Apple has this for iPhones, as does Microsoft for Windows 10 internet connected devices. It would be important to have for "Find My Device", disabling stolen devices, etc.

> context where the average consumer is starting to recognize ChatGPT as a brand name.

Zoom was once that brand name which was equated to a product. Now, people might say "Zoom call", but may use Teams or Meet or whatever. Similarly, people call a lot of robot vacuum cleaners Roombas, even though they might be some other brand.

Brand recognition is one thing, but the actual product used will always depend on what their employer uses, what their mobile OS might use, or what API their products might use.

For businesses, a lot will be about the cost and performance vs "the best available".

> Sounds like a deal to train vertex ai on enterprise codebase

Needs source. Neither Github, Gitlab, AWS, Azure, or GCP legally trains anything on enterprise codebase. If they do, it would be illegal.

> AI sound cool but at this point I'm just expecting another half baked feature that checks boxes for executives to justify purchasing it.

Its unfortunate, but just fixing and making an existing product awesome has lower ROI than implementing good-enough features that your competitor has. It may sound stupid, but works business wise.

Maybe you should read the comments on the issue first.

Various sources.

1. https://www.cato.org/blog/fiscal-impact-immigration-united-s...

2. https://www.aclu.org/other/immigrants-and-economy

3. https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/north-american-century/b...

4. https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-e...

5. https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/immigra...

I know someone like you who had to leave. It sucks. Hope it works out for you. I don't understand how people like you are ignored when politicians support DACA, and similar programs, for people are in exactly the same situation as you, but came here illegally.

FWIW, I support those programs, but wish it included both legal and illegal immigrants.

> There is a reason that tech salaries in Canada are much less than the States

And not everyone wants to make as much money as they can, while dealing with uncertainty.

> How many white collar jobs do we actually need?

More educated immigrants lead to more jobs and economic growth.

> Do you really want to shut out deserving people who cannot afford to study in the US

The parent poster did not say anything about stopping other avenues of immigration. Immigration is expensive. Do you think a lot of people who aren't privileged enough can easily immigrate?