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I would imagine whatever AI that google has in the coming years should make supporting multiple operating systems and hardware platforms trivial

I heard a similar theory on CNBC's Squawk Box.

Sorkin presented a theory that Nvidia bought HuggingFace to protect OpenAI from legal consequences. That a lawsuit determining accountability of actions by LLMs could threaten the AI financial network.

https://youtu.be/4qV5WWgFTS8?t=323

The eclipse should also be visible from space in the "live" satellite imagery on:

https://zoom.earth

Is there an understanding of what OpenAI intends to do with that memory?

Surely they need GPU capacity and would need memory for those GPUs but OpenAI doesn't build GPUs or any hardware, right? So did they pay to keep the supply locked up, or do they have the ability to put that ram into use?

Could you say more about the differences between Aider and OpenCode?

I briefly dabbled with Aider some months back but never got any real work done with it. Without installing each one of these new tools I'm having trouble grokking what is changing about them that moves the LLM-assisted software dev experience forward.

If Python has a "very weak ORM situation", what is it about the TS ORM scene that makes it stronger by comparison? Is there one library in particular that stands out?

Thanks, that’s good advice

I have a fire tablet that I’ve tried that with, but for various reasons I prefer to have Linux on all the things. As a long time Android phone user Android still gives me an irrational ick, non-standard android even more so.

Ideally all my home devices would controlled and managed by the same underlying OS and tooling

I have to stop being such a prude, it just frustrates me that after so many years I can’t buy a cheap Linux tablet

For sure, I hear you

I just want affordable, linux-powered displays in a slim tablet form factor. Performance and battery life are not a priority for my use case

Unfortunately I feel anything sold as a tablet comes with the assumption that it needs to compete with an iPad and be used for content consumption and gaming.

Ive seen raspberry pi kits sold that do just about everything else but this.

Thanks, yeah I understand their poor performance and energy efficiency for use in a tablet for content consumption or gaming.

And I am guessing that a part of the reason for a lack of any such RaspPi tablets is that marketing such a tablet would come with the need to negatively differentiate it from any similarly priced android tablet.

However I can think of many use cases, mainly for folks in the maker space, that are not content consumption or gaming or long battery life. I am thinking of dashboards or smart home control panels.

Right now I have a few raspi4s mounted on the back of an official touchscreen encased in an adjustable plastic stand. Been working great for years, but the size is clunky and processing power is more than what I need it for, which is just displaying a web page with some information and buttons.

Would love a thin display to mount on a wall near a door or have others lying flat on a table next to a beside or couch. Basically always plugged in but with an included battery for the odd moment when I need to carry it somewhere.

So many other uses i could think of.

Ive looked at Amazon Fire tablets, but the locked-down android and really android of any kind is just not something I am interested in.

Ive seen raspberry pis used for just about everything else but not this

I it would be great if some company put these into a small 7in tablet. Thats a very underserved form factor in the maker space.

Thanks

Was it being closed weight obvious to you from the article? Trying to understand why I was confused. Had not seen the "Flash" designation before

Also 30B models can beat a semi-recent 235B with just some additional training?

I dont think the Flash model discussed in the article is 30B

Their benchmark table shows it beating Qwen3-235B-A22B

Does "Flash" in the name of a Qwen model indicate a model-as-a-service and not open weights?

The link[1] at the top of their article to HuggingFace goes to some models named Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B that were last updated in September. None of them have "Flash" in the name.

The benchmark table shows this Flash model beating their Qwen3-235B-A22B. I dont see how that is possible if it is a 30B-A3B model.

I don't see a mention of a parameter count anywhere in the article. Do you? This may not be an open weights model.

This article feels a bit deceptive

1: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-omni

I see that their HuggingFace link goes to some Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B models that show a last updated date of September

The benchmark table in their article shows Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01 (and the previous Flash) as beating Qwen3-235B-A22B. How is that possible if this is only a 30B-A3B model? Also confusing how that comparison column starts out with one model but changes them as you descend down the table.

I don't see any FLASH variant listed on their Hugginface. Am i just missing it or are these specifying a model only used for their API service and there are no open weights to download?

Site says it runs Linux

Does anyone have insights on how compatible that hardware might be? Or how it might compare to something like a Pinetab?

For some years I have been looking for a low cost tablet with good Linux support for use in home automation or information displays. Surprised there is still nothing like this in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.

I haven’t used Jupyter in a few years. Wondering what is the current standard practice of starting a new Jupyter project.

Do users typically have one system-wide Jupyter install that gets reused for each data analysis project that then have their own dependencies in a virtual environment that Jupyter activates?

Or is Jupyter installed inside each project’s virtual environment?

Maybe you know this but Bazzite works perfectly well as a standard Linux desktop operating system. It comes with a non-gaming desktop environment and can be setup to boot directly into that desktop environment. It just defaults to the steam gaming interface.

In my area we've had the Spotted lanternfly for more than 5 years now, maybe closer to 10. In the first year or two they could be seen in huge numbers. Since then they've waned off considerably. Like last year I don't recall seeing many at all. This summer they are back but still nothing compared to that initial wave. I've seen birds eating them, leaving lots of disembodied red wings in my backyard. Feels like they will reach some equilibrium stable population.

I hope your grapes make it through

I wonder, does Asia and Europe have nearly as many problems with North American invasive plants / pests / diseases as North America does with its non-natives?

Being from the US, I don't recall any such stories in the news.

Thanks for the clarification. That is significant

The article mentions that this Skydweller UAS completed a 73 hour flight.

Back in 2022 there was a solar powered Airbus Zephyr drone that was tested over the Southwestern US with a flight time of 64 DAYS. I wonder how this new drone is different and how a 73 hour flight is significant in comparison.

Here is an article about the Zephyr Drone and its crash that ended its nearly record-tying flight:

https://simpleflying.com/airbus-zephyr-flight-ends/

Here is a flight replay from adsbexchange showing one day's worth of its flight path where it traced out the Liberty Bell(?) and the shape of the lower 48 at nearly 70,000ft. (Scrolling through its other dates show more playful flight paths)

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae1313&lat=33.419&lon=-...

How is this promoted as a "local UI" if it gets the UI from a remote URL?

Maybe the closed source UI is downloaded upon first execution for installation and then cached locally?

Or is this a web app that loads from the remote URL each time?

Maybe you've already seen, but it appears the answer is no, based on xemoka's comment here quoting someone at duckdb

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344932

Maybe Google is paying them to self-sabotage?

Is Google paying Mozilla to sabotage themselves?

Stay in business, so monopoly arguments can be brushed aside.

But slowly erode privacy on the internet. And slowly lose user base.

    their "AI" marketing page[1] pretty clearly implies that compute is offloaded

I think that answers most of my questions.

I am also not in robotics, so this demo does seem quite impressive to me but I think they could have been more clear on exactly what technologies they are demonstrating. Overall still very cool.

Thanks for your reply

The demo is quite interesting but I am mostly intrigued by the claim that it is running totally local to each robot. It seems to use some agentic decision making but the article doesn't touch on that. What possible combo of model types are they stringing together? Or is this something novel?

The article mentions that the system in each robot uses two ai models.

    S2 is built on a 7B-parameter open-source, open-weight VLM pretrained on internet-scale data

and the other

    S1, an 80M parameter cross-attention encoder-decoder transformer, handles low-level [motor?] control.

It feels like although the article is quite openly technical they are leaving out the secret sauce? So they use an open source VLM to identify the objects on the counter. And another model to generate the mechanical motions of the robot.

What part of this system understands 3 dimensional space of that kitchen?

How does the robot closest to the refrigerator know to pass the cookies to the robot on the left?

How is this kind of speech to text, visual identification, decision making, motor control, multi-robot coordination and navigation of 3d space possible locally?

    Figure robots, each equipped with dual low-power-consumption embedded GPUs

Is anyone skeptical? How much of this is possible vs a staged tech demo to raise funding?

I have yet to use one, but have you heard of the Pinenote?

Its a Debian Linux based e-ink tablet. It doesn’t look particularly premium, but it’s not android. There is a pressure sensitive stylus that comes with it as well.

https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/

Not many reviews out there but here is a video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3trcI7MK4U

Very cool

Congrats, this looks nice

Does this app render the flights to fit the curvature of the earth?

Was looking for something like this during the New Jersey drone flap to help identify distant flights from the perspective of someone on the ground

The Monroe Institute sells a series of audio clips that emit a different tone in each ear with which the brain creates a third oscillating tone. This third tone is known as binaural beats which they allege to synchronizes the brain's hemispheres.

The series is called the Gateway Experience. Its a kind of semi guided meditation using the binaural beats that is intended to induce out of body experiences.

I tried it years ago and although I never experienced a OOBE it did seem to induce lucid dreaming. Its a bit new-agey but not in a preachy or religious way.

https://hemi-sync.com/gateway-experience/