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Hugging Face Model: https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b-storywriter

Hugging Face Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mosaicml/mpt-7b-storywriter

This article was really insightful. I never thought of the tech industry's pushing for coding education from this POV.

Haven't heard this adage before bit it seems appropriate for the situation. Good one.

Well this comes as a big surprise. I just thought that he'd be taking a break. I also think that he wasn't forced to resign as much as he thought it'd be the best choice for the company (he probably has majority voter control). Kalanick - because of his super competitive nature - was probably the best person to be CEO during the time he was but maybe its now time for a more matured and seasoned executive to take over. Just my thoughts.

I was really skeptical about her company but the pictures in the article and the article itself seem legit.

I wonder how they'll combat the inverse square law and make their technology actually feasible.

> they're cheaper because they can subsidize their fares via VC money

That's not the (only) reason why they're cheaper.

They're cheaper because they offer drivers less downtime, therefore the drivers can end up earning more money since they're driving more of the time and earning fares.

They're also cheaper because services like uber pool and lyft line allow riders to spilt the fare among themselves.

I also think that Uber and Lyft will be cheaper than taxis for many more years to come. They're just more efficient as business models than taxis'.

I completely agree with this. Electron drops the entry barrier for desktop development much like flash did for web development.

As computers get faster I think that the difference in performance of apps using electron versus platform native apps will be imperceptible.

> So sell the gold and buy bitcoins... :-) (JOKE!) Haha

On a more serious note, I think that bitcoin is a bit too expensive right now. It seems to have been pushed up from demand from China [0] some time ago, but I seems that the Chinese government tried to stop it [1]. I don't know where demand right now is from, though.

I'd be remiss if I didn't say also that it's amazing that bitcoin is something that is much less associated with criminals and the dark economy as it was in the past and is now being popularly used for some really noble things. Same for blockchain.

[0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-restricts-gold-importat... [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38591929

> those loans are scary Yeah, they had better IPO soon.

I don't know for sure why they went with such onerous terms but I think that they thought they were growing fast enough and would IPO this year. It turns out that that won't be the case [0], since they still have some deals to make with record labels and others. They have Apple on their heels. I like Spotify a lot but I don't think there prospects are good.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/sources-spotify-may-delay-...

I thought that they'd price a little lower than this ($14-$15) but it seems that the market (1) doesn't care too much about not having a vote or (2) has lots of faith in Snap management.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out over the next 6 months.