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Here's the thing about DEI initiatives, that many people seem to forget -- it was never about merit (or the lack thereof), it was about competing against racial bias and unfair laws.

The old boys' clubs kept out anyone that didn't look like them. We can debate all day if this was an implicit bias, nepotism, cronyism, or whatever. Take a look at the numbers from the past, take a look at the laws from Jim Crow. People of color and women weren't even allowed to work in some areas or companies. DEI grew out of Affirmative Action to add checks and balances to the practice of only hiring straight white men.

Of course, with human nature at play, DEI has become a way to add a checkmark for a member of historically excluded group. This checkmark may come at the expense of a more qualified member of a majority group -- or it may not. I can tell you as a member of several minority groups, we often have to work twice as hard to get to any position of authority, and even then, people assume we are just a DEI hire.

Now we have immigrant minority groups riding the coat tails of the Civil Rights movement, acting against their own best interest... At any rate, I no longer live in the US, and sitting back with my popcorn. This is gonna be interesting in the long run.

I use them for movie theaters and other loud places. Works a charm!

Always been sensitive to sounds and have taken effort over my life to protect my hearing. It may look silly, but I still plug my ears when a large truck/train passes by.

Result is, even at my age, I can still hear those annoying high frequency teenage repellents (ubiquitous in Tokyo). Can also hear some of my electric devices charging.

I'm glad to see such steps being taken by Apple. I always bring my noise canceling buds (Sony, Apple) with me when I go see movies. It's literally painful to watch movies in modern theaters without them. Just too damned loud!

Apple's on the right track. Personalized health and more daily monitoring of said health is gonna be a sea change event.

And we'll still see the next batch of YC companies being 90% SaaS and/or devtools (but this time with AI)!

Yep, this is something my fiancé and I are actively planning for at the moment.

In her culture and language, having a native-sounding name provides an individual with all the societal advantages as a default. Conversely, possessing a non-native name, regardless of citizenship status, invariably leads to the perception of being a foreigner. This results in assumptions about language proficiency and a constant exceptionality.

So, we are deciding on names for our future children that would resonate as "native" in both English and her mother tongue.

This exactly what it was. As more people have began to adapt to the Pakistan meta, they are not as dominant. It was just a new skilled style that no one outside of Pakistan was aware of.

You see similar things with Black players in the US. They are often isolated and hyper-competitive, and thus are over represented in the top tier based on population numbers.

For anyone not in the Tekken scene (the video explains better than I will) Pakistan came out of nowhere and took the world by storm. Usually, it was Korean and Japanese players that dominated, with a few Americans sprinkled here and there.

But little did we know, Pakistan was brewing up a new type of player that we had never seen before, and were completely defenseless against (regarding the meta at the time). Arslan was and is a force of nature. The funny part is that when he first began to get fame, he made it clear that he was in no way the best player in Pakistan.

Top level players in Japan and Korea now regularly fly out to Pakistan to practice.

Ask around. I'm sure there are some technical people in your extended circle that you may not have considered. Also, there are tons of tech job boards out there. Many many years ago, I was a contractor on upwork, but my last foray with them was as a client.

For the work I need done, it works well enough (translation mostly). I wouldn't dare to hire an engineer from the platform. Not because of skills, but because of what it has done to the market.

Heh, when I first moved to Seoul, I noticed those big pots (onggi/옹기) everywhere. You might see 2 or 3, or 20 in front of a house, building, etc. I asked my friend what was the deal, and she goes, "Oh, they're making kimchi." Blew my mind how ubiquitous it was.

Love me some real homemade kimchi, especially when it has that slight fizzy bite from a good ferment.

> Not my experience. I eat one meal a day and I don't really get work going before that meal (which is usually around noon).

Of course, you do what is best for you. But I recommend you do some research in the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems and how these systems relate to fasting and energy expenditure/utilization based on the diurnal cycle.

For my IF schedule, I aim to maximize the efficiency of both. This results in my having only an evening meal. I.e. active and responsive during the day (fasting), relaxed and digesting during the evening (meal time) before sleep.

> Castellano, C.A., Nugent, S., Paquet, N., Tremblay, S., Bocti, C., Lacombe, G., Imbeault, H., Turcotte, E., Fulop, T., & Cunnane, S.C. (2015). Lower brain 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake but normal 11C-acetoacetate metabolism in mild Alzheimer's disease dementia. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 43(4), 1343-1353. doi: 10.3233/JAD-141952

-- This study found that the brain's uptake of ketones was preserved in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, and that higher levels of ketone metabolism were associated with better cognitive performance.

> Krikorian, R., Shidler, M.D., Dangelo, K., Couch, S.C., Benoit, S.C., & Clegg, D.J. (2012). Dietary ketosis enhances memory in mild cognitive impairment. Neurobiology of Aging, 33(2), 425.e19-27. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.10.006

-- This study found that a ketogenic diet improved cognitive function in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

> Taylor, M.K., Sullivan, D.K., Mahnken, J.D., Burns, J.M., & Swerdlow, R.H. (2018). Feasibility and efficacy data from a ketogenic diet intervention in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 4, 28-36. doi: 10.1016/j.trci.2017.11.002

-- This study found that a ketogenic diet was safe and feasible for patients with Alzheimer's disease, and that it improved cognitive function in some patients.

Agreed. When I first started IF so many years ago, it was a shocker how much my sense of smell increased. In the sense of evolutionary biology, it makes sense. If you are hungry, you better be able to find your next food source and maximize every sense you have to get it done.

I can't agree with it being a delusion. Again, my personal experience is just that -- personal.

Ketones are associated with fasted states and/or restricted carbohydrates. The average person holds about 400-500g of glucose (1600-2000 calories) in their bodies. Once that is depleted, through fasting or carb restriction, you will switch to ketogenesis to provide fuel. There are numerous studies that show a positive correlation with ketone production and cognitive performance.

Few examples: > https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25404320/ > https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27528626/

If I am doing serious deep work, I can go 8 to 10 or so hours without even thinking about food. However, once I do eat, I'm done with any serious work for a few hours. Keep in mind, I'm operating from a 20 year experience of intermittent fasting (before it was cool).

To reiterate, I don't think it's a delusion. We evolved in a feast or famine state. Carbs and constant satiation were rare when our base metabolic pathways evolved.

I'm a daily faster for the past 20 years, so I can attest (anecdotally) to the benefits of working while hungry. Once you adapt, after a couple weeks, instead of being irritable when hungry, you mind feels clear and focused. After all, despite the trappings of modern society, we are a predator species. Hunger gets shit done.

When I was a kid, I recall the teachers always telling us to have a good meal before a test. Even then I felt that was silly, as a big lunch always gave me brain fog.

Anyway, I'm surprised this article (study?) didn't take into account "meeting fatigue". I know that for myself, after an hour in a meeting, I just want to get out so I can recharge. I know nothing productive will happen until I do so.

I love Clojure (and have touted such in past comments), but it suffers from a glaring problem: every library is half done and/or abandoned. What happens is you end up modifying an existing library to fit your particular problem space. I needed a web framework. None of them just did things in a "simple way". I ended up branching an existing one and have altered it (very heavily) to fit what I need. It's now my go-to for all new projects.

The issue with us Lispers is that we love the language more than we do the tooling. Tooling be damned! So we all end up re-inventing the wheel for the 1000th time. We will never gain wide spread adoption, as such.

With Ruby, I have Rails. With Python: Django. With Clojure...well good luck. Every framework does one thing beautifully correct and about 10 things wrong. But hey, it's up to you to modify the framework! Because that's the Lisp way of doing things!

Maybe I should publish my bespoke framework one of these days...

I appreciate your edit. It's a sensitive topic and although we may try our hardest to be bias free, we are human, and we are fallible. I'll try to reread your initial post again.

Best wishes to you as well.

The "random google doc" was prepared by Dr. Janelle Wong of the Asian American Studies Program from the University of Maryland.

I'm not arguing that Asians are being discriminated against. It's obvious this is happening, and it's disgusting. I was commenting on your comment about Black Americans being the leading culprits of Asian hate crimes.

I admit, I was unaware of the skewed anti-Semitic views. Definitely will do further research.

Also, you know exactly the rhetoric I am speaking of.

See for yourself: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19llMUCDHX-hLKru-cnDCq0Bi...

Also, your comment history shows a definite bias.

That's my point. I'm not pointing fingers. When these stories first begin to trend, I looked up the data and saw the raw numbers. Any preconceived notions you may have are yours and yours alone.

I hate to see this rhetoric on HN. I considered this one of the last bastions of rational, open, and unbiased discourse. I suppose "Eternal September" comes for all.

As a member of the Black and Asian community (and others), first I'd like to say. What? Since when did Black people (en masse) begin assigning any manner of blame to the Jewish community as the "real enemies?" Aside from a one particular prominent rap artist and one very fringe religious group, no one I know or any of the Black online communities I frequent have ever said such. If there was a newsletter, I sure as hell didn't get it.

Regarding the Black on Asian violence we saw in the US. It was and is a damned shame. Again, as a member of those communities, it hurts. However, I know I walk the fine line of whataboutism here, but I have to make it known. The increase in Asian hate was not led by Black Americans (but the reporting of it sure as hell made it look that way). I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which group was the number one culprit of such vile acts -- from simple assault to mass murder. Regardless, no matter the culprit, any act of violence based on race is absolutely and utterly reprehensible.

We don't need a designated "bad guy" in order to address these horrible events. We all need to do better.

It's their ego. I'm now at the CTO level, but I still code as a hobby (daily) and will contribute as necessary to a product with coding. A couple years ago, during a stretch with a previous client, I wrote a bit of code. With my second PR, one of the code reviewers tore my code to shreds. It was 90% styling and 10% theory. As for the styling, sure, it was fair enough. I was new to their culture and it was trivial changes -- 5 minutes of work.

The last 10% was simply a theory issue. The reviewer wanted things his way, which would have taken an inordinate amount of time for the feature. I told him that it was unnecessary, and would increase dev time. I was thinking about the entire product process, while he was focusing on how the code should look -- which was purely arbitrary.

He wouldn't waver, and delayed my PR. It eventually was escalated to the head of engineering, who sided with me. It was a trivial feature, and my code was tested and worked -- it just wasn't the reviewer's way of doing things.

Anyway, it got merged as is. But, I can only wonder about how a junior dev may have handled it. Wasting hours of time to conform to a particular senior engineer's arbitrary "way" of doing things -- correctness be damned. As for my own code reviews, I follow a simple process: 1. Can I parse it in 10 seconds? 2. Does it fit the specs? 3. Is it tested? 4. Is it extensible?

Freestyle Libre : https://www.freestyle.abbott/us-en/home.html

They're a bit pricey if you buy them direct (sans insurance). It feels like you have an additional sense when wearing it.

I've been doing IF for 20 years. I read the science way back when, and it made sense to me -- I never looked back. Early breakfast always made me feel queasy, anyway (since childhood), so it wasn't much of a jump. I typically don't eat until dinner. I'll alter this for special occasions, or if I didn't eat enough the day prior. Sometimes I'll just plain forget to eat until 21:00 or so, if I'm busy on a project. I follow this pattern about 5-6 days a week.

As for my blood glucose levels, based on the continuous monitoring devices I've used, it's pretty stable. I may see a slight dip in the afternoon, then returns to baseline and stabilizes. After a meal, it will rise for about 30 minutes (within normal parameters), then back to baseline.

IF is anything but a fad diet and shouldn't be lumped in with such. If anything, one could argue that IF is one of (if not) the original eating patterns based on the lifestyles our hunter/gatherer ancestors and modern nomadic cultures.The modern concept of 3 squares a day might in fact be the fad.

Food has only been plentiful since the agriculture revolution about 12,000 years ago. Before then, it was feast and famine.

For anyone on the fence, I say give it a try (after consulting with your physician). The more studies we are seeing about this pattern, the more benefits we are discovering.

Like many of us, I have been experimenting with the new GPT-3 chat model of OpenAI.

I've been testing its potential for extrapolation, idea synthesis, and novel thought -- all of which have led to some amazing responses. However, this is the one I most want to share! (Note: the title of this post was partially generated by GPT-3.)

As a human that attempts to respect other cultures, and also as a multiracial person with Chinese ancestry: then yes, I am against them because of their racist ideologies.

As another long term resident of Tokyo (10 years and counting), I honestly can't understand why Patrick would recommend anyone give their business to APA Group.

As others in this thread have mentioned, this hotelier group is abhorrent. They are led by an anti-Semitic, anti-Korean, anti-Chinese history revisionist. The hotel leaves its disgusting diatribe in their company issued magazines conveniently laid out in every room within their hotels. This is just the tip of the iceberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_Group_(Japan)#Controversy. Here's another link: https://www.ft.com/content/d35ec458-df07-11e6-86ac-f253db779....

Given Patrick is a long-term resident of Japan, it's shocking to me that he isn't aware of this, or he simply doesn't care.

For anyone reading this, please do not support that company. It may seem a small thing, but this ruined the entire tone of the post for me.

Somewhat related fun fact: Miss World Japan 2018, Date Kanako[1], is a direct descendant of the article's namesake.

[1] https://nextshark.com/kanako-date-miss-world-samurai/

"Scent trails", I know exactly what you mean. I also have a very strong sense of smell. My friends call it my "dog nose". It was much more sensitive as a kid (I think), but still pretty good. I can follow people through buildings based on their smell (be it cologne or pungent b.o.) I can also identify people based on scent alone. Everyone has a very unique aroma. As a kid in school, I knew who had milk for breakfast. It was a very sour smell emanating off them -- probably why I find plain whole milk disgusting to this day.

Funny story, I found one of my favorite bars using this skill. Had just moved to a new location and it was super late -- everything was closed, but I was starving. I smelled tacos in the air. No idea where it was coming from, so I just followed the smell. After winding through a few small alleys, and up a few flights of stairs to this building, I ended up at a small late night bar. The owner was making taco rice.

My hearing is also quite good compared to my age. I still get bugged by those anti-teen/mosquito buzzers. I can still hear if an electronic device is on by the high frequency hum they emit. I attribute this to my actively taking care of my ears since childhood.

On the other hand, my vision is shit. Without contacts/glasses, the world is just a blur of color. I didn't know I had terrible vision until I got my first pair of glasses in middle school.