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Ask HN: How can we lay people off without cruelty?
Hi HN, it’s bad out here and I need advice on the most humane way to lay people off. It’s more than half of the company, the company itself is small (less than 50 people) and very close. I’m the head of engineering, so I have a large share of those kind folks to let go. Literally I have to lay off friends.

I know we’re gonna do the basics as best we can of course: more than 2 months’ redundancy package, try and find roles for people as best we can, do the paperwork right so they can claim anything they need to.

I want to know your advice for the human element; how to tell people and not be cruel. How to balance that against honestly trying to save what we can.

Eg. I hate that when I read stories about layoffs it always comes as this awful surprise and then you have to immediately leave, it’s so abrupt how can you say goodbye properly? But that seems to be some protection against someone acting in a way they normally wouldn’t and doing something destructive in the heat of the moment. How can we possibly preserve both properties?

We want to tell people one-at-a-time and in-person. Is this best? Why do companies even mass-tell people? But then I don’t know how anyone can keep their composure going back to their desk to pick things up though... Quickly word would get out, diminishing the point of telling people one-at-a-time. Where to have these conversations is also an issue, the office is pretty small. And we need to have a lot of them in just a short time too.

It’s going to be awful regardless, but I would like any advice on how to make it the least awful. The least-awful, that is, for those who have to leave; since if I get the dubious privilege of riding the death spiral a bit longer then we can leave my own feelings out of this.
I tried paste, but it is too much in your face for my taste.

Would love something like the clipboard manager from the JetBrain suite as a global clipboard manager.

Will give Alfred a try, thanks!
> I also don't really agree with this definition either. This train of logic leads to the justification of euthanizing less intelligent humans.

How so? less intelligent humans have cognitive ability so they have rights.

> It also doesn't adequately address why a human with microcephaly or no frontal lobe has rights, but a dolphin or octopus or killer whale does not.

The question is not why the law is the way it is but the way that it should be. As it is now, It has rights because it is a human, we make our laws for ourselves and sometimes for other species, and I would definitely say that animals should have protections/rights (and they do). A law is also a custom or an enforced custom and certainly animals have customs. At least in america, many families take the toll of taking care of their family members with many deformities. the state should not enforce termination of these, but it should be optional for those that do take this unfortunate toll in their hands. (criminalization != decriminalization)

> It also allows for the justification of cruelty against animals who can feel pain but aren't intelligent enough to pass some arbitrary test of intelligence.

On the contrary, as a cognitive animal capable of pain. it indicates that you should not do so, I would say the capability of pain is the most important aspect to life. given that it is usually an indicator of the will to live.

> To be clear, I don't know the answer, I am hesitant to label anything as "innately valuable". I think that there is however a sliding scale of what is "ethical".

Neither do I. Abortion is euthanasia, and it certainly has merit. both economically speaking and in the sense of well being for humans. Given that human childbirth is probably one of the worst around on the animal kingdom.

It would be nice if we just relegated pregnancies to artificial wombs, but until the technology is there. I guess we'll be having this abortion "debate" forever.
AX/CX/DX/BX (in machine code this is the order from 000 to 011) were intended as equivalent to AF/BC/DE/HL.
Wow. I guess it means something that the pioneer generation of 50 years in comp graphics is reaching end of life. Here's to the next 50. Let's try and keep it just as irreverent ;)

The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. 1969, MoMA

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2776

Featured a first: "An Evening of Computer Films"

Such as: Poem Field No. 1 (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsNmrCgwwQM
Also over twenty javascript includes on that thing. Thankful for no-script.
We're only 8 years out from "legitimate rape"! How in the world can anyone think legislators and jurists themselves, let alone young people, are receiving sufficient information about sex and pregnancy?
Yes. Yes. Yes. No.

anything else is none of your business.
Retail trading in crypto is down ~90-95% at the moment.

Source: know several of the largest market makers on the big retail exchanges.
You'll have to forgive me if I'm not feeling the "begrudging" nature of your statement.

> Ofc, my support for this change assumes that this Supreme Court will show restraint towards political activism (in either direction) in general. Call it naive, but I'll wait and see.

Your comment seems naive. It should be pretty obvious the us Supreme (Being) court is not going to show restraint towards political activism, they literally destroyed 50 years of American bodily freedom and struck up a massive victory for the gun lobby in a day.

> The sad part of democracy is that it aims to represent the views of the voting majority. If the voting majority truly cares about access to abortion then we will hopefully see enough democratic traction to give them the mandate needed.

American democracy doesn't represent the majority as gerrymandering has stolen the voice of our people, and guess what issue this court absolutely won't be addressing: voters rights. Because it should be absolutely clear right now that this court wants only one thing: to execute their political agenda without care or thought to the consequence of their actions. And the consequence will be dire indeed, American is already divided and this will be the final push to forever sever the left from the right, affecting creating two separate countries, not in law perhaps (yet) but certainly in spirit. In one stroke, the court has done more damage to our country than our enemies ever could.
Spending crypto at a spot where you in person ate a burrito leaves its own paper trail.

I guess you could make an onion router style delivery network to get your meal, but you’d also have to convince thousands of others to use it as well to hide amongst them.
Miscarrying is a very great point, as is still births. But my point in general is that once you’re pregnancy your body “finishing” is the inevitable outcome, intervention notwithstanding.

We do have still work to do in making the end of the pregnancy the desired one (healthy baby), yes.
Glitchtip: Open-Source Alternative to Sentry
Crypto, web3 and NFTs are social movements. They are the crowd that knows things. As the hippies used to say about LSD and counterculture, "You're either on the bus, or off the bus."

Crypto, web3 and NFTs are spiritual tech that is throwing off the shackles of corporate control and making a new society. It's an identity. It's a brand. It's a community. If I was in my 30's I'd probably be into it. I would know damn well there was a lot of hype, but so what, it's fun and maybe something amazing will come out of it. Meantime, it's a party, and we can all take turns at the mic making deep pronouncements about how we're empowering the forgotten poor of the world. What's not to like? Who cares if we lose money. It's the price of entry to the party.

Edit: This isn't what I believe. This is me trying to see it through the eyes of a young enthusiast
For statistics on abortions caused by rape, https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/pubs/psr...

Here, approximately 0.5% to 1% of abortions are because of rape and/or incest. Looks like my original estimate was right :)

The most vulnerable are not the rape victims, but the unborn infants, and they're being harmed in great number.
My only wish is that I could do some Pokemon style exp-share so I could distribute the muscle gain to the rest of my body ;)
I too had that reaction the first time I saw it through a telescope. I think some part of me put Saturn pictures in the same category as movies - pretty but not 'real'. When i saw the rings floating there it was pretty mind blowing.
What Is Lisp? – FOSS and Crafts Podcast Episode
The sort of ironic thing for me is that I've really liked the time I've spent in Dallas, as recently as this year, and loved Lawrence, Kansas, when I was in a residential writing workshop there some years back. Kansas City, Missouri, was great when I was there for a world science fiction convention. If the politics in Texas weren't on track to go full fascist I'd probably have given Dallas a serious look at a place to retire to in a few years.

But, yeah, my whole beef with "flyover country" is, to put it less gently than my original post (trying to be fairly neutral didn't work because I got attacked for what I didn't actually say anyway), I've historically almost always heard the term being used by conservatives to justify liberal-bashing. It's not California politicos who go around saying "flyover country"; it's QAnon-spouting bible-thumping tea partiers rallying their troops by yelling "Nancy Pelosi calls this 'flyover country,' are you gonna let her?" who do.
Do you see DuckDB as a possible replacement for AWS Athena? Where would Athena still be better than DuckDB + Parquet + Lambda?
To the same degree that SQL does. The answer is, "yes, no, does it matter? is that even interesting?"
>"abortion is a an individual choice and should be protected as such"

This is exact my point of view, not sure what your overall post suppose to mean.
It would have been nicer to codify the rights before pulling the rug on it.
Capital punishment is legal in 27 states, 20 of which support the death sentence, why is that not inextricably linked with abortion?
I guess maternity leave is more expensive than abortion.
Article quoted the Senators letter ” Data brokers are already selling, licensing, and sharing the location information of people that visit abortion providers to anyone with a credit card. Prosecutors in states where abortion becomes illegal will soon be able to obtain warrants for location information about anyone who has visited an abortion provider. Private actors will also be incentivized by state bounty laws to hunt down women who have obtained or are seeking an abortion by accessing location information through shady data brokers.”
This should greatly improve the efficiency of growing marihuana indoors. The terrible efficiency of photosynthesis of 1% (as stated in the paper) means that currently 99% of the electricity* used to light up the plants is wasted!

Apart from drugs, other grass-roots indoor farming efforts will also profit from this because this approach allows separating the carbon-fixing from the actual farming.

Edit: to expand on the previous paragraph, there could be a business opportunity for large-scale carbon-fixing businesses that sell the acetate to farms. At least after the kinks in the growing procedures have been figured out.

*: the lamps themselves also don't have 100% efficiency
Deportations, yes. Visas and green cards, why? Liberals seem to have this idea that Republicans are just blatantly racist and want to kick everyone that's not white out of the country. Once you get past the propaganda, and actually talk to them, you find that they simply don't want people here that snuck past the border.

If you legally obtained permission to reside here, nobody except for the KKK has qualms with you.
Ah, yes, let’s fix one vulnerability for one app… rather than the current situation, where every app gets the fixes when they go out.

Makes total sense. ;P
Were they noisy, or did they quantize motion, or were they too weak, or what?
But your body is feeding it and keeping it alive, often at the expense of itself. That's the bodily autonomy part - a woman should not be compelled to keep a fetus alive at the risk to her own health and well-being.
> It's a reddit-level comment that doesn't add anything to the discussion.

That still makes it a rhetorical step up from Thomas's concurrence.
Just because everyone may not be be able to agree on exactly when that viability threshold is or what reasons are justifiable does not mean we should not attempt to do so. Almost all states (and other countries) where abortion is legalized still have reasonable limits on when they may be performed (e.g., not after second trimester). I think we would both agree that an abortion of an otherwise viable and healthy baby one day before expected delivery would be unethical.

The religious arguments for banning all abortion for any reasons are not sound and I would not expect such laws to pass scrutiny when challenged in court (but who knows nowadays).

Many things people do don’t infringe on my rights. Someone murdering another person doesn’t infringe MY rights, but it is still wrong. A parent beating their child doesn’t infringe my rights but is still abuse.

All this being said, I support the right of a woman to receive an abortion, within reason. It is up to our elected officials to codify this right. It is not, nor should it ever be, the responsibility of the court to attempt to enshrine a right that does not exist through case law.
That's why the signature would be nice though. I get a pretty good amount of spam at basically randomly generated addresses. The signature allows you to drop all of these. Then you can block signed addresses that get sold.

Basically the signature ensures that only you can grant a "token", and you can do so without actually updating the state of your mail server. You only need to update the mail server to block an address that has "leaked".
The more I read about phones and texting, the more I realize that they were never intended to be used as security verification.

It just was not one of the design goals. My understanding of caller id is that anyone can put anything there--it was made decades ago to serve as convenience--not to verify.

Likewise with the sender id in SMS.

It's a good lesson on how protocols are hijacked. Someone thought it was a good idea to send text messages. Another person decided to leverage it for security. Ét voila, we have a security apparatus that isn't very secure.
This statement can be measured against historical data. Democracies have regressed in the past. Prominent examples are in Russia and India, but also in Poland (as courts were made political) and Hungary.

I do wonder if those trends actually deliver more turnout or less. I suspect less actually, as non-results are actually pretty demotivating in altering behavior.

I’m not a historian but hopefully someone here is, and is able to make an educated guess of what the actual trends are.
The copyright holder is free to write up a license that says the current holder of the NFT may use it as if they hold the copyright, though. Many NFTs don’t, but it’s possible.
Fetus literally means unborn baby. The only difference between a fetus and a baby 10 minutes before birth is position in space (one’s in a womb). Would you support abortion 10 minutes before birth? A day? A week? At what point are you just murdering a baby?
SPI is a lot easier to bitbang than PWM though. You can speak SPI with a couple of debounced toggle switches and an indicator LED+resistor.
How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices
I knew a guy who tried to build a multi processor system with 16 6800s. Made a mistake with the power supply and ended up frying all of them.
How does this ruling change the fact that women can generally choose who to have sex with, and therefore when to get pregnant and have birth?
> You’re laying out the definition of a slippery slope argument.

When Clarence Thomas says "here's the slope I think we should slide down next", we're not in fallacy land anymore.

> these aren’t going away

Don't worry! They won't go away. It'll just be up to the state governments currently passing laws forcing women to carry rapists' babies to term to decide if you can have sex outside of marriage or not. States rights!
You polemically insisting that a fertilized egg is a baby is the basis of your reductionist “ view outlined above. Blatant antidemocratic power grabs and attempts to replace democracy with theocracy rank rather low on my moral scale.

This Supreme Court has also just thrown out Miranda rights out the window and stomped on New York’s attempt to limit concealed weapon carries.

States rights my foot!

It’s unfair that Obama couldn’t even get Merrick Garland appointed with two terms in office, but Trump GOT THREE JUSTICES JAMMED THROUGH IN ONE TERM!
Unprecedented and dangerous.
They all lied to congress about their intentions during confirmation too.
Immoral!

You will surely reap the whirlwind from what you sowed
> The vast majority of people in the world can't afford to buy crypto.

You can buy fractions of it, meaning the affordability is relative to the individual and what they can spend.
Definitely. RSSGuard. It's one of the few offline and independent (read: not a web application) RSS Readers on Windows. My only problem with it is how RAM-heavy an application it is, and that it can get pretty bogged down when downloading feeds. But beggars can't be choosers.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
You can think the earth is flat and still enjoy a meteor shower. They're so beautiful, and obviously speak deeply to us as primates or something, because we have so much imagery involving meteors.
> It's like teaching someone calculus when they haven't even learned algebra yet. Start with the basics and then build up from there.

I mostly agree in principle with the idea of building up a foundation. Going right into the deep end without decent guidance may leave one with horrible heuristics.

However, (IMO) a crawl->walk->run abstraction does not always work well. I hate to say "it's case by case," but pedagogy is not easy. Algebra, IMO, should be taught either near or with its uses (modern calculus being one of them). Otherwise, one may be learning a bunch of abstract concepts without much reification.
I mean, we're protected from SMS from spoofed alphanumeric sender ids. What more do you want?

Probably no nation has protection from spoofed numeric sender ids, but based on the sms phishing attempts I get, that's not a big deal. Apparently people will tap on links from their bank from any number anyway.
Yes. I built my own https://www.kontxt.io and hit the front page of HN not too long ago. It's a modern hybrid productivity and social bookmarking / news / knowledge aggregation service. Think social web layer with CMS and social network.

You can save the site / pdf (link or archive), engage with highlights, comments, and polls. There's privacy controls. It's searchable. Everything can be organized with tags as well as folders. You can join groups and follow people to discover shared content. Highlights can be shared natively to popular social platforms and observed with analytics. User's can also set a personal promotion with what they share as an added benefit and incentive to provide value.
78% of Texans believe abortions should be allowed to some degree (https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/04/texas-abortion-ut-po...)

Texas, like most "conservative" states is gerrymandered to all hell. So it's very very simple how conservative minorities are enforcing their social views on the majority.
Ah yes, is this the old "let's lock down the planet forever" solution?
It's more complicated than that.

> The Bored Ape Yacht Club terms of service grant a commercial license to exploit the copyright of each Bored Ape to the owner of the relevant NFT.

So the holder of a Bored Ape NFT has a license to commercially use the off-chain image associated with the NFT by way of an on-chain URL. That license is granted by the actual copyright holders of all of the Bored Apes.
> JSX is 1,000% magic syntax, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something.

> It looks, feels, and acts wrong in ways that Svelte or Vue templates (and most other templating systems) don’t, to me.

My biggest example of this (and it drives me crazy) is when mixing Typescript generics in TSX files: you often have to do ridiculous boilerplate like `<T extends any>` because otherwise `<T>` would be recognized as JSX and blow up the syntax tree. Hoorah for the context-sensitive grammar.

Typescript is what "No magic syntax" looks like: all it takes to get usable javascript is to parse the TS AST, remove the TS specific nodes, and serialize the tree back to text. There are a few exceptions like enums but they're not core features and you can go your entire career without needing them. Meanwhile the JSX ecosystem is full of crap like emotion and styled-components that need babel plugins to support features like component selectors. SMH
Roberts' concurrence was in ruling against Casey (decided 6-3).

He did not concur with overturning Roe - that was decided 5-4.
If the vaccine has side effects similar to that of an average pregnancy it would not only not be mandatory, but would have failed FDA trials and would be illegal to administer.

There's a line somewhere between total bodily autonomy and being compelled by the state to experience: nausea, swelling, muscle and back pain, weight gain, incontinence, depression, and laceration to you genitals.
It is absolutely the job of the Supreme Court to care for the entire health of the American people, there is literally no other reason for the body to exist other than to maximally enable Americans' life, liberty, and their pursuit of happiness.

If the Supreme Court cannot do this, it should not exist.
>It's not even _the_ official currency, just one alongside USD, and yet it's already accelerated the country towards defaulting on their bonds.

And its day to day usage is very low.

There was a spike in use after $30 sign up bonus and during the 2021 bitcoin conference and following months which attracted tourism from bitcoiners though.
It depends on a number of issues. For example, if you want to retire early, you can withdraw Roth contributions after five years, but need to wait until 59 1/2 years old (or 55 in some circumstances) to withdraw from a traditional 401K or IRA.

If retiring early, it may be better to do traditional contributions while working and then do Roth conversions at lower tax rates during early retirement.

Bogleheads maintains a list [0] of many retirement calculators that can use the additional specifics of your situation to give a higher quality answer. It will generally require you to give it a plan for the rest of your life, so you'll want to try a number of scenarios to see if/how the plan changes.

Bogleheads also has an active forum that variations of this question have been asked many times. If you want to see what situations others have asked about in the Boglehead forums and the recommendations they got you can search with [1].

[0] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Retirement_calculators_and_s...

[1] search for: traditional or roth 401k contributions site:bogleheads.org
That very much depends on where you are located. In Europe it is pretty much 'business as usual' at the moment, in the bigger cities I'd say that for the time of the year it is actually busier than usual in the start-up scene.