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New comment by groestl in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

groestl — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:00:10 +0000

It might not be the purpose, but it's the effect of laws.

New comment by groestl in "cp: -r or -R?"

groestl — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:02:25 +0000

I was under the impression it could do that, I think I build a snapshotting mechanism using this.

New comment by groestl in "cp: -r or -R?"

groestl — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:38:58 +0000

Do it once, make it your muscle memory - it's really hard for me to learn things by heart, but even I could do it :), and then you can forget about scp as well

New comment by groestl in "cp: -r or -R?"

groestl — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:35:25 +0000

Relinking?

New comment by groestl in "Tiny Brutalism"

groestl — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:39:06 +0000

It's also that it's really difficult to find anybody who could build rococo or neoVictorian buildings. And if you do, it's a lot more expensive. So the designs are not built, making it impossible for young people to gain experience building it.

New comment by groestl in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

groestl — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:53:40 +0000

I think it's not a matter of want. The goverment makes the rules, and the rules decide the emergent behavior of people, in companies and elsewhere. Whether their emergent behavior is good or bad, whatever that means, is a result of the way that your particular country selects the goverment. Mine is probably different than your's.

New comment by groestl in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

groestl — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:50:51 +0000

> I expect those people to behave ethically at any given time.

A company is set up and incentivised to maximize a profit function, and that in turn incentivises to promote people which are not impeded by ethical considerations. The hierarchy furthermore ensures that people which would otherwise act ethical, don't, for fear of losing their job. This structure behaves ethical as long as you put ethics in the profit function.

New comment by groestl in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

groestl — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:46:02 +0000

> we should also regulate them to ensure that they do and punish them meaningfully when they fail to

Fully agree, that's what I mean.

New comment by groestl in "A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work"

groestl — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:33:54 +0000

I think it's a fundamental difference in philosophy. Does the work exist, and you discover it? Or does it start existing as soon as you think about it? This person seems to subscribe to the latter world view.

New comment by groestl in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

groestl — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:29:29 +0000

IMHO one shouldn't expect a company to have any ethics to achieve a positive outcome for society. This needs to be baked into the rules (taxes, regulation, ...), so the ethical behavior becomes the rational behavior.

New comment by groestl in "The darker side of being a doctor"

groestl — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:03:09 +0000

And there's certain constraints related to patient's safety which have an impact (i.e. less handovers, longer shifts)

New comment by groestl in "Doing Everyone Else's Job"

groestl — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:45:10 +0000

In Austria as well, it's called "Turnus".

New comment by groestl in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

groestl — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:34:46 +0000

Next up: Airport Simulator! Enjoy security, customs, and the inevitable panic of missing your gate across more than 50 international airports around the world!

New comment by groestl in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

groestl — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:23:14 +0000

> the problem seems pretty clearly to be the impossible goals, which cause them to go crazier and crazier trying to complete them

And if you think about it, humans in coorporations face very similar situations and choose to bypass regulations and guidlines knowingly to fullfill (at least from their POV) impossible constraints (thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal here)

New comment by groestl in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

groestl — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:14:40 +0000

I hate them because I seem to be the only adult that sees the kid kicking out another kid's teeth, or hurting them elsewhere.

New comment by groestl in "Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?"

groestl — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:32:58 +0000

> Fifty, maybe a hundred violinists in the entire world do earn a pure living

Coming from Vienna, that can't be right. This city alone breaks that assumption with it's largest 4 orchestras combined.

New comment by groestl in "When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals"

groestl — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:35:03 +0000

When cows have phosphorus deficiency, they occasionally eat small birds, rodents, insects, or bones

New comment by groestl in "Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need"

groestl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:14:29 +0000

Of course there's many reasons to make something worse intentionally. Revenge for example.

New comment by groestl in "Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need"

groestl — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:29:55 +0000

Thumbs up, let's settle on that translation

New comment by groestl in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

groestl — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:40:13 +0000

Isn't "split the bill" something that the restaurant does?