<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tarvaina</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tarvaina</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:49:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tarvaina" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "A Tour of Oodi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live nearby and really enjoy Oodi. It's usually much busier than in these pictures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:36:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742309</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Learn to play Go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nitpick: The early moves in the game are called fuseki. Joseki refers to well-studied local patterns of moves and they appear through the middle game, not just in the early game.<p>A couple of things I love about go is that you don't need to memorize fuseki, and that applying joseki correctly is as much a matter of judgment as it is of memory.<p>(I am a 1 dan go player but haven't played much in the last 15 years.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:18:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401727</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Wikipedia article says:<p>"Rock, sand and concrete has a heat capacity about one third of water's. On the other hand, concrete can be heated to much higher temperatures (1200 °C) by for example electrical heating and therefore has a much higher overall volumetric capacity."<p>and<p>"Polar Night Energy installed a thermal battery in Finland that stores heat in a mass of sand. It was expected to reduce carbon emissions from the local heating network by as much as 70%. It is about 42 ft (13 m) tall and 50 ft (15 m) wide. It can store 100 MWh, with a round trip efficiency of 90%. Temperatures reach 1,112 ºF (600 ºC). The heat transfer medium is air, which can reach temperatures of 752 ºF (400 ºC) – can produce steam for industrial processes, or it can supply district heating using a heat exchanger."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:55:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45112977</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45112977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45112977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Open Source is one person"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(Off topic.)<p>Not only that, but Linus's parents were politically active communists and young Linus was a pioneer (like a boy scout but for communists). His father also lived in Moscow for several years on two separate occasions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:46:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051512</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>_Miles_ from the ocean? Budapest is 620 miles from the nearest ocean at the mouth of Elbe.<p>(Incidentally exactly 1000 km.)</p>
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<p>You are absolutely right, I cannot see it there either! Sorry for the misdirection.</p>
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<p>You can turn them on in the workspace admin settings: <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11954883-legacy-model-access-for-team-enterprise-and-edu-users" rel="nofollow">https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11954883-legacy-model-ac...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838981</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Gemini CLI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It took me a while but I think the difference between Vertex and Gemini APIs is that Vertex is meant for existing GCP users and Gemini API for everyone else. If you are already using GCP then Vertex API works like everything else there. If you are not, then Gemini API is much easier. But they really should spell it out, currently it's really confusing.<p>Also they should make it clearer which SDKs, documents, pricing, SLAs etc apply to each. I still get confused when I google up some detail and end up reading the wrong document.</p>
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<p>Yeah. Alternative explanation: I'd say 3 and 7 are out because they often come up in fairy takes etc as magical. 5 is out because it's half of ten and the number of fingers. 2 is out because it is too small.</p>
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<p>Oh, right! I forgot about it. I guess 8 would do too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 10:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050147</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also it is one party (The Finns) presenting a rail initiative competing with their government partner's (National Coalition) older initiative. It is very unlikely that they both will be implemented.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 09:59:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039754</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stray thought: Why 4 and 9? Because the joke is funniest if the number is completely ordinary.<p>0 and 1 are special and so are all prime numbers. 6 is out because it's the maximum die throw. And one figure is more ordinary than two figures, or negatives, or decimals. That leaves 4 and 9.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036576</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "The 12-bit rainbow palette"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article is about choosing 12 colors from the 4096-color palette.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:40:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830823</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "The dark side of the Moomins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are actually six different TV series:<p>1959: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Muminfamilie" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Muminfamilie</a><p>1969: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1969_TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1969_TV_series)</a><p>1972: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Moomin" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Moomin</a><p>1977: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series)</a><p>1990: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)</a><p>2019: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominvalley_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominvalley_(TV_series)</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:18:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674723</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Why does JSON have commas?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is how Clojure does it.<p><a href="https://clojure.org/guides/learn/hashed_colls#_creating_a_literal_map" rel="nofollow">https://clojure.org/guides/learn/hashed_colls#_creating_a_li...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:47:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599937</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Flat Earthers Went to Antarctica to Look at the Sun. What Happened"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Website of the actual event: <a href="https://www.the-final-experiment.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.the-final-experiment.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:07:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42484331</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42484331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42484331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Sitters and Standers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't white vs blue collar a latent variable? You have to operationalize it somehow. If you just ask "how blue collar are you?", people's answers will be influenced by all kinds of subjective biases.<p>I'd argue sitter vs stander distinction also makes this presentation more visceral, memorable and understandable. Collar color would feel unnecessarily abstract and boring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:44:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324747</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Word-initial consonants are systematically lengthened across diverse languages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a Finnish speaker I've often wondered about this. In Finnish (and Hungarian) the stress is almost always on the first syllable, so it is easy for speakers to distinguish word boundaries. How do speakers of other languages do it?<p>Now I'm wondering if the first consonant is lengthened in Finnish too or if the syllabic stress makes it unnecessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:48:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693947</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did I get this right?<p>Bard – old name of their generative AI service, to be called Gemini<p>Duet AI – old name for their generative AI in Google Workspace, to be called Gemini<p>Gemini – three things:
1. the name of their models (like GPT).
2. the new name of their free service (like ChatGPT), gives access to Pro 1.0 but not Ultra 1.0.
3. the new name of the Generative AI tools in Google Workspace.<p>Gemini Advanced – the name of their paid service (like ChatGPT premium), gives access to both Pro 1.0 and Ultra 1.0<p>Ultra 1.0 – the first version of their big model (like GPT-4)<p>Pro 1.0 – the first version of their smaller model (like GPT-3.5)<p>Google One AI Premium – the subscription that you need to buy to have access to Gemini Advanced<p>Google One Premium – the old version of the subscription, does not include access to Gemini Advanced<p>Google app – the mobile phone app, which includes either Gemini or Gemini Advanced<p>Google Assistant – like Siri but hard to define what it is<p>Google AI – a generic name for all their AI products</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:09:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302781</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Claude 2.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We got access soon after the API was announced and have happily been using Claude Instant in production for a couple of months now. It may have helped that our use case was a good match for their capabilities.</p>
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