<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: machomaster</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=machomaster</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:23:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=machomaster" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by machomaster in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stats from Russia/Ukraine are not good. And the ones that exist, could be dismissed for various reasons ("Russians are savages so it doesn't count", "Ukraine is defending itself in existential war so it doesn't count").<p>With the USA the stats are available and no valid excuses exist to throw the data away. The US military is not defending itself and is supposed to be the most powerful, advanced (tech and policy) and professional military in the world. They are the best case scenario for the human drone operators' performance one has. And yet:<p><a href="https://worldmetrics.org/obama-drone-strikes-statistics/" rel="nofollow">https://worldmetrics.org/obama-drone-strikes-statistics/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://t.me/milinfolive/100367" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/milinfolive/100367</a>
<a href="https://t.me/arrowsmap/9958" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/arrowsmap/9958</a><p>Plus all those bombs that fell in Russia, dozens of kilometers away from the target.<p>The precision does get better, but still look at the second pic:<p><a href="https://t.me/milinfolive/150513?single" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/milinfolive/150513?single</a></p>
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<p>Only the USA has enough war experience and drones for us to have high confidence stats on the performance of human drone operators (military vs. civilian targets) vs. AI.</p>
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<p>Agree. That's why autopilots in airplanes have a much better track record than flesh pilots. And when the autopilot screws up, there is a clear path to improvement, to make sure that the situation will never repeat itself. With humans, people continue to make the same mistakes, no matter how many times it happened before (even for the same pilots).</p>
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<p>The stats of USA using human-guided drones to kill people. A civilian/military ratio and numbers was worse that 11.9.<p>Heck, check the American drone war crime video Wikileaks published. The one that made the USA so angry that it decided to attack and destroy the journalists.</p>
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<p>The lack of precision does matter when we are talking about trenches/bunkers and bombs often missing by many dozens and even hundreds of meters.</p>
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<p>> Ukraine could also reach Moscow with missiles, why doesn't it?<p>Ukraine doesn't have enough missiles to reach and hit important targets in Moscow.<p>Due to Moscow having the best defence, it doesn't make sense to try to hit it only for lulz, instead of hitting actually important target elsewhere, like oil refineries.<p>Otherwise, Ukraine has constantly been trying to hit targets in Moscow and around it, mostly with long-range drones, not missiles. Sometimes this has been successful. I mean, the dome of the Kremlin itself was hit a few years back.</p>
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<p>Correct. The capability you describe came only recently and only a small part of Shaheds have it.</p>
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<p>There are limitations to the technology, but in right scenarios it is perfect.<p>One should not use it on attack, when people need to distinguish between a soldier and a civilian.<p>But on a defence, when you need to keep a certain area empty from enemies (and there is nobody else but enemies incoming), then it resembles the usage of mines, only better (both in terms of efficiency and safety/callback/disarm).<p>Another scenario or cutting the logistics. If you know that a road is only used by military, then letting the automatic drones watch and engage is a great idea.</p>
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<p>A person writing without thinking.</p>
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<p>Really, you have never heard of shareware or trial periods?</p>
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<p>> the vast majority of qualified americans will have no interest in at any reasonable pay rate.<p>Herein lies the whole problem. It is the potential employees who determine what a reasonable pay rate is, not the employer - the cat decides what kind of milk it likes.</p>
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<p>And at Walmart. And at McDonalds. And at Burger King. And at...<p>Bacically, it is not rare at all. Especially among certain American demographic.</p>
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<p>This is just good writing, not a 100% proof of AI being used.</p>
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<p>Analogies have to make sense, to be applicable. In this case it doesn't.<p>E.g. you can't just spew nonsense like "let's work together like a bee hive, everything for the Queen/CEO, no matter the personal cost to an individual" without others pointing out the stupidity of comparing humans with bees.<p>You can't just come up with a desirable adjective and start coming up with random scenarios in which those characteristics may occur. "Let's make the company strong as a gorilla, big as an elephant, smart as Von Neumann, bright as a Sun, as courageous as young guys from youtube fails compilations." This makes no sense whatsoever.</p>
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<p>Windows is what happens when there are too many cooks in the kitchen, without a single authority figure, ultimately responsible for maintaining the OS (and only the OS), guarding against and saying no to all attempts to leech the user base.</p>
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<p>The Linux numbers went up because Valve did a better job of cleaning the results from the skewed Chinese data.<p>For what it's worth, Framework sells more of its new Pro line with Ubuntu than with Windows.</p>
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<p>Not for people who use Excel professionally, not even close. Excel is undefeated.</p>
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<p>Here is a short video explaining the situation:
<a href="https://youtu.be/XT5TKf9Qfl4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/XT5TKf9Qfl4</a></p>
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<p>If you don't see a clear difference between the hard sciences of biology/chemistry/medicine and the opinionated "science" of parenting (prescriptive, no less), then you should check your eyes.</p>
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