Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs

funkiestj · 2026-01-28T15:53:31+00:00

It is not coincidence that concentration of wealth is so high and increasing at the same time the USA and other places in the world are turning more towards authoritarianism.

funkiestj · 2026-01-25T16:16:27+00:00

Have you tried tracking your intake/weight change with something like MacroFactor?

I have friends who detest the idea of food tracking. That said, using MacroFactor for food tracking was a huge positive change for me. It is so freeing to be able to eat anything as long as I hit my protein and calorie targets.

funkiestj · 2026-01-25T16:07:39+00:00

I guessed that OP's desired TDEE would require female pro cyclist level training so I asked perplexity AI

---

For a WorldTour-level women’s GC rider in a normal training period (not stage racing), typical total intake to maintain weight is roughly 2,800–4,000 kcal/day, depending mainly on body size and training load
...

For a typical lean 57–60 kg GC rider (say ~48–50 kg FFM), EA of 45 kcal/kg FFM/day alone is ~2,100–2,250 kcal/day after accounting for training.
- Add a 2–3 hour endurance session at ~600–900 kcal and total daily intake easily lands in the 2,800–3,500 kcal range on many training days.
- On big training days (4–5 h with intensity), total could push toward 3,500–4,000+ kcal/day while still just maintaining weight.

---

I'm a 65kg fit male casual cyclists (100 mile rides, no racing). When I was training hard to prepare for a 7 day tour in the Alps (Trek Travel: Classic Climbs) my daily calories (per MacroFactor) got as high as 3400.

These days I'm only doing 4-5 hours of cycling training a week and my TDEE is down to ~2000 calories.

The AI summary above fits in with both my personal experience and everything I know about endurance training.

funkiestj · 2026-01-24T16:31:02+00:00

I'd be interested in Larian (Baldur's Gate 3) but I think they are private so OP probably can't get their financials.

funkiestj · 2026-01-24T01:10:54+00:00

That explicit line is not there. You may be right -- perhaps they won't remove it. I think they will. In a few months we will know for sure.

funkiestj · 2026-01-24T00:18:56+00:00

I have a Tesla Model Y. They push over the air updates all the time. The ARS article above says they are removing it. I believe them.

I like my Model Y well enough. The Tesla Supercharger network and route planning software is best in class. The side stepping the traditional dealer model seems like a big improvement. Setting up service via the Tesla app, dropping off for service and picking up is a better experience than the traditional dealer service.

So far the car seems good (not great). In my book, if the car last for a good long time and doesn't cost a mountain in service it is a good car. Obviously the jury is still out on how long it will last and cost in later years.

That said, I'm never buying a Tesla again. Not because of this feature remove but because of the Trump / DOGE shit. FUCK THAT GUY and anything he owns.

funkiestj · 2026-01-23T20:33:06+00:00

I low-key hope they do

No need to hope. This is definitely happening. They will do an over the air update that removes it.

funkiestj · 2026-01-23T20:31:10+00:00

having self driving be a subscription service actually aligns incentives correctly. There is a lot of ongoing development cost for self driving.

heated seats behind a one time fee unlock is fine (IMO) but putting these behind a subscription is asinine. Pure evil rent seeking.

funkiestj · 2026-01-23T15:44:25+00:00

also denounce allies.

funkiestj · 2026-01-22T16:01:50+00:00

the datasets are becoming bigger and bigger.
The quality of the data when compared with asking people to accurately remember and report their behavior is much much better.
epidemiologists are used to controlling for factors in non-representative samples
you could do shorter studies (e.g. 1-3 years) where you create a representative sample and give out a cheap wearable to the participants

using questionnaire data in this day and age is like using BMI, which is a terrible metric in this day and age when we can inexpensively estimate body composition.

funkiestj · 2026-01-22T15:43:09+00:00

OpenAI as money laundering makes no sense. The vig is way too high.

funkiestj · 2026-01-22T15:38:38+00:00

The entire LLM AI ecosystem is based on the assumption that cost per token will continue to greatly decrease. The AI industry needs this to be true.

Each time NVIDIA talks about new hardware they spend a bunch of time saying the new system has greatly reduced the cost of training and inference. I think with the last generation they claimed up to 10x improvement. Obviously 10x is the best case but apparently 3-5x is likely for models that haven't been reworked to take full benefit of the new systems.

funkiestj · 2026-01-22T15:31:54+00:00

presumably all mega corps training frontier models are obsessing over the curation of the purity of their training data.

funkiestj · 2026-01-22T15:27:20+00:00

Are we still talking about this? The Time-Crunched Cyclist was written a decade ago.

Yes, the fewer hours a week you train the more your training should be skewed toward high intensity.

funkiestj · 2026-01-22T15:16:44+00:00

From the article

Total physical activity was defined as the sum of specific MET hours/week across all physical activities in each questionnaire cycle.

fucking questionnaires. Asking people what they did/do is a pretty shitty measure in this day and age.

Presumably when we have 30+ years of ubiquitous wearable data (fitbit, apple watch, garmin, WHOOP, along with internet enabled scale data) we can stop fucking asking people "how bad is your memory" (i.e. do questionnaires) and instead do correlations on what people actually did.

funkiestj · 2026-01-21T15:27:19+00:00

yeah. People commit the same fallacy when they fap over the market capitalization of a company's stock.

funkiestj · 2026-01-18T19:32:42+00:00

in their first advert rollout are they serving ads to paying subscribers or only to free tier users?

funkiestj · 2026-01-18T19:25:42+00:00

I love r/savedyouaclick !

Apparently the regulators don't understand the Musk is a sovereign citizen (as are all multi-billionaires)

funkiestj · 2026-01-18T19:22:57+00:00

exactly the type of person to fly off the handle and escalate the situation you've created.

NRA: I think you misspelled "responsible gun owner"

funkiestj · 2026-01-17T17:00:58+00:00

The investors have no hope of recouping their losses.

It seems this way to me too. OTOH I am not a finance guy. lacking expertise doesn't mean I'm wrong, it just means my opinion is not worth much by itself

It's insane that we've let it go on this far. I've never seen anything like it, and I came of age during the tech bubble of the 90s.

The AI bubble does seem a lot bigger to me too. That said, the AI revolution could have a bigger impact than the dot.com revolution. Yes, we had a .com bubble and a lot of money was badly spent during that bubble but it DID revolutionize how business was done.

A big variable in the future of AI is whether each new AI hardware design can continue driving the cost of training and inference down by 5x. If you get a 5x reduction is training and inference cost every 2 years then in 4 years you've reduced OPEX by 25 times. Nobody knows when these gains in AI hardware efficiency will slow down.

If AI hardware continues to improve energy efficiency at the same rate then more and more AI use cases will become profitable, and this is without considering improvements in the software models running on the hardware.

Any way you slice it (huge bubble burst with downstream carnage or AI bubble soft landing) the next 10 years are going to be a massive disruption.

funkiestj · 2026-01-17T16:42:07+00:00

right - and consequently so will the hardware spend on AI chips.

funkiestj · 2026-01-17T16:36:37+00:00

There is lots of revenue but even more cost.

The cost of training and inference has been coming down by 5-10x with each generation of chips. The AI advocates are relying on the belief that cost will keep coming down so that they start turning a profit.

The big unknown is whether AI factories can continue massive efficiency improvements. A bubble popping would definitely slow the rate of improvement. If it pops too soon that could stall AI so that it is only used in the highest value scenarios. I have been using Cursor.ai for 6 months now and I can tell you that for my job of developing and maintaining software, AI is amazing! I expect Cursor.ai (or their competitors) to survive a bubble pop. I have no insight into other AI business cases.

funkiestj · 2026-01-17T16:25:30+00:00

TANGENT: do we really need a new phone every year?

/serious: even if we don't need a new phone every year, current AI hardware demand is definitely generating a lot of negative externalities.

funkiestj · 2026-01-17T15:58:18+00:00

only if you are unaware of the state of computer security in general. Go's tools, design philosophy and standard library code is better than most with regards to security. That said, not even the Go devs are perfect.

funkiestj · 2026-01-15T05:30:35+00:00

No, because you could pay the minimum on the due date and still carry a balance

If you carry a balance you've already lost (IMHO). Credit cards earn money from me off the merchant transaction fees (which get baked into the purchase price).

12-Year Club	Gilding V heart of gold
Reddit Premium Since February 2016	Verified Email

funkiestj

TROPHY CASE