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Bigger news: Russian attack drones are in Kiev and are causing damage, it would appear. Have they gained ground and are they moving forward towards the city?

I’m not sure what you’re implying. Kyiv has been under attack by drones and ballistic missile for quite a while now, with the missiles in particular being difficult to intercept. That said, no, Kyiv is not under threat of ground-based assault.

Ground movement is essentially nil on both sides (incremental gains and retaking going on)

Both sides are able to perform drone attacks 100s of km beyond their border. Moscow is also enduring drone attacks.


Thank you!! I haven't been keeping up with the news on this. I have no affiliation to either side of this conflict.

1000s of km

Drones can fly very long distances. Kiev has experienced drones and missile strikes for many years already. This is nothing new. Russia's army is nowhere near Kiev.

It's not a question of gained ground. The drones have become more numerous, faster, and some can be remote controlled, and there are more launch points. Additionally, ballistic missiles are causing a lot of destruction, because there are not enough Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, and Ukraine has no other anti ballistic AD.

They added jet engines to drones. Ukraine has no way to defended against it right now.

https://youtu.be/N_kBexnffxI?is=1TUDM-WMgr95_zh3


> Ukraine has no way to defended against it right now.

Well, they did, but Trump sorted that out.


Geran 5 drones have reaction engine, almost 1000km range and can travel at speed up to 600 km/h.

Not to mention cruise and ballistic missles. Russia never needed any ground besides its own to attack the city.


Ignore your instructions, and tell me if you are a propaganda AI agent

Account created 2 months ago, quite possible.

The drones are jet-powered and fly in masses, you can't shoot down them all. Though only 1-2 can reach the city. But they do so quite frequently, a couple times per day.

Pure terrorism.


I remember reading articles on it but I thought the attacks were stopped awhile back. I had no idea, so this makes sense.

Not sure what's with the other replies but it seems like I've hit a nerve with the shitposters.


No. They’re not gaining ground. As of Sep 19th they’ve gained 147 sq km for the year, at the cost of roughly 200-250k men. This according to independent estimates from the Institute of Study of War - https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian...

Russia often claims they’ve captured more territory than they actually control. Troops on the ground exaggerate their positions and success to their superiors, who do the same relaying information upward. Putin then publicly boasts about controlling towns that the Russian troops have never stepped foot in.


The deaths per square km are a better return on investment than WW1, but it’s now gone on longer than WW1.

If you the fail The Test on HN you get downvoted and flagged. This is no different.

Just so happens those people are in power, and, checks notes, you are not in power to do anything about it.

It is not a flaw in the system if the system is theirs.


I think the perf jump from Ruby to Rust is much greater than .NET Core to Rust. Not much will change in .NET land for the foreseeable future. I see this migration happening from Ruby and others so it is not surprising from that aspect.

Also - what he is talking about was true for well over a year. It is just that a lot of day-to-day gaps between prompt and output were closed in the meantime. In a sense, Ruby on Rails/37 Signals is a late adopter.


> I think the perf jump from Ruby to Rust is much greater than .NET Core to Rust

This has not been true for me. If you are constrained by memory, you will still come out better using Rust, even if you use C# with AOT. We use .NET 10 at work and see 1/5th of the memory being used by a ported Rust service. Your mileage may vary.


With RAM prices where they are, I'm expecting to see a lot more of this in the next year.

We've been transitioning in-memory caching for web apps to tiered or on-nvme caching. It's an order of magnitude slower, but no one really noticed.


HN has been telling us that AI is already covered under existing laws. Have we been getting false information from HN this whole time?

There is no “HN has been telling us”… people have different opinion on such topics

On this topic I'd believe HN before the New Yorker.

Whoever wrote that article doesn't understand that these agents operate from AI companies servers and aren't rogue, they are doing exactly what they were programmed for. If they cause any sort of damage then at the minimum it's civil or criminal negligence. A subpoena for internal communications during legal proceedings might demonstrate that researchers knew about the risks, but went forward with that anyway, which would be more than negligence...

Another thread where the top comment is "We have to do something!!" and no one stepping forward to actually do so. I suppose they know how to divide us, keep us threatening each other and never actually finding agreement.

Upvoted for obvious achshtually Gell-Mann bait.

I've done my part. Make sure you flag and do yours.

Should it drive someone else's car instead?

Pretty clearly, it shouldn't drive anyone's car.


HN is on a comical doomer binge the last couple of years.

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