Hacker News: timoth

New comment by timoth in "Account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets"

timoth — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:06:42 +0000

The name suffix might look a little clunky at first sight, but having just been thinking about replicating buckets to other regions for DR, having a built in naming template seems useful (of course, you can devise your own, but...).

Using the account regional namespace is also described as a security best practice:

> Creating buckets in your account regional namespace is a security best practice. These bucket names can only ever be used by your account. You can create buckets in your account regional namespace to easily template general purpose bucket names across multiple AWS Regions. You can have assurance that no other account can create bucket names in your namespace. If another account attempts to create a bucket with your account regional suffix, the CreateBucket request will be rejected.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/gpbuck...

Account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets

timoth — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-account-regional-namespaces-for-amazon-s3-general-purpose-buckets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368234

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by timoth in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

timoth — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:02:21 +0000

> You may need to authenticate payments a dozen times in an hour one day, when you are on a farmers market which doesn't take card payments or you are out dining with friends, and another day not at all.

It's very unlikely people would need to mess about with MittId/BankID if they can't use card payments at a market. Firstly, if they're doing the almost-unheard-of clunky approach of using their mobile banking app to make a bank transfer, it would probably be authorised using their touch/face ID instead of BankID/MittID. But far more likely, they'd use one of the ubiquitous mobile payment apps: Vipps (Norway), Swish (Sweden) or MobilePay (Denmark).

AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

timoth — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:11:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62dlvdq3e3o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989056

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by timoth in "Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control"

timoth — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:03:00 +0000

It's been a long time since I worked in flight simulation (full flight simulators and simpler pilot training devices, including simulating TCAS), but I believe at that time TCAS would be switched to a mode in which it only alerts of "Traffic" instead of providing avoidance instructions precisely _when_ entering busier airspace -- e.g. airport proximity. In that environment it was undesirable for TCAS to be giving instructions. That seems like the environment in which Enhanced Radar's (future) product(s) could be of most interest.

(By the way, I believe EGPWS would take priority over TCAS anyway.)

New comment by timoth in "WiFi suspended at big UK train stations after 'cybersecurity incident'"

timoth — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:36:50 +0000

> Especially nowadays, with Britain out of the EU and "roam like at home" policies no longer in effect.

I thought they were generally still in effect. The multiple UK and non-UK networks I'm aware of still allow free roaming across UK and EU etc.

Ex-Ticketmaster boss sentenced for hacking rival company CrowdSurge

timoth — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:20:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg423n1erko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526257

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by timoth in "We're ending our Samsung collaboration"

timoth — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:21:22 +0000

It does. But not beyond iOS 15. Most recent update: 15.8.2 a couple of months ago. Personally I'm really impressed that Apple is still supporting an 8-year-old phone and it's probably the main thing that has been tempting me to jump ship from Android for a while. (Though it seems like Android might be better on this in future.)

New comment by timoth in "Netflix Ships Last DVD"

timoth — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:44:21 +0000

"Inside the last-ever red envelope that we shipped out was… the Blu-ray disc of True Grit (2010)."

https://twitter.com/dvdnetflix/status/1707771256039428513

New comment by timoth in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

timoth — Tue, 17 May 2022 21:00:41 +0000

You can do that with the stock Android too, once you've enabled the developer options in settings. The setting needed is "Display cutout" --> "Hide".

New comment by timoth in "French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)"

timoth — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:21:59 +0000

I don't read any implication that they see they were likely wrong. According to the article, he actually refused to comment on the French cases and said their own lab "only use mouse-adapted sheep prions, which have never been shown to be infectious to humans." Not even "_had_ never been shown". It seems unclear what his view is.

It immediately goes on to talk about their own discovery 10 years ago that prions could be spread through aerosols which "totally shocked" them and might "warrant re-thinking on prion biosafety guidelines" but that seems an entirely separate thing from the decision to use only sheep prions for research.

New comment by timoth in "French moratorium on prion studies after two cases of fatal brain disease (2021)"

timoth — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:05:10 +0000

I'm a complete layman in this field, but the logical conflict between these two sections concerned me:

> she stabbed her left thumb with a curved forceps while cleaning a cryostat — a machine that can cut tissues at very low temperatures — that she used to slice brain sections from transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE

Then later:

> Aguzzi declined to comment on the French CJD cases, but told Science his lab never handles human or bovine prions for research purposes, only for diagnostics. "We conduct research only on mouse-adapted sheep prions, which have never been shown to be infectious to humans," Aguzzi says.

Am I missing something, or is the logical conclusion that Aguzzi thinks his lab is avoiding disaster by only using mouse-adapted sheep prions, but the lady is suspected to have been infected by an injury related to "transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE". I hope there's some nuance here, because otherwise it sounds like Aguzzi's lab isn't actually avoiding infection. Perhaps the lady's case isn't considered to have definitely confirmed infectiousness due to uncertainty (though no uncertainty seemed to be mentioned)? Or the mouse-adapted sheep prions Aguzzi's lab uses are different to the transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE? I have no idea; it's just that the apparent conflict between these two sections jumped out to my layman's eyes.

New comment by timoth in "286 vs. 386SX"

timoth — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:17:21 +0000

> I remember the excitement when the SB meant my computer could play, e.g., human speech in my games—I forget what the games of that day were; one of the early Ultimas?—rather than just the beeps and boops of the PC speaker (although some people could do amazing things with that speaker!).

They certainly could do amazing things with that speaker. I remember being blown away when I loaded up a PCPlus magazine "superdisk" cover disk some time in the early nineties IIRC and speech came out of the PC speaker -- "Welcome to SuperDisk 61" (or whatever number it was).

Aspirin may help treat aggressive breast cancer

timoth — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:43:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58229082

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28226163

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Gaming can officially improve mental health: 5 essential relaxing titles to play

timoth — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:42:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3dG7LzqrnPDG9MtdyK0W3Pm/gaming-can-officially-improve-your-mental-health-here-are-five-essential-relaxing-titles-to-play

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28226151

Points: 34

# Comments: 34

Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

timoth — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:10:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57562230

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27591133

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by timoth in "Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research"

timoth — Tue, 18 May 2021 10:32:19 +0000

In general, assuming some (types of) words are more common is reasonable, but the specifics could be tricky. I know it was only an example, but "the", for example, might not exist in the language -- it might not have definite articles, or any articles equivalent to English articles at all.

New comment by timoth in "SEC Charges 1inMM Capital, LLC with Operating a $690M Ponzi Scheme"

timoth — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:18:50 +0000

AbeBooks does have independent sellers, but for anyone who was unaware, it was acquired by Amazon in 2008.

New comment by timoth in "AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Peru trials"

timoth — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:19:21 +0000

This is a few days old now so doesn't include the latest Norwegian cases, but that seemed to be the thinking (though the article feels a bit of a mix between certain and equivocal at different points).

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/KyGv2G/professor-says-...

New comment by timoth in "A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco"

timoth — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:33:35 +0000

The US is teeming with UK or UK-inspired place names for obvious reasons. Here's the Georgia section on the list of US places with an English name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_the_United_States...

It's a pretty lengthy page and is unlikely to be exhaustive. It can be a bit of a minefield though. For example, that page lists Boston Georgia, but according to the top of this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._places_named_afte...

Boston, Georgia is named after a person, not the location in England.