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Nvidia Announces Vera Rubin Space-1 Chip System For Orbital AI Data Centers

Slashdot
1 week 6 days ago
Nvidia unveiled its Vera Rubin Space-1 system for powering AI workloads in orbital data centers. "Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived," said CEO Jensen Huang. "As we deploy satellite constellations and explore deeper into space, intelligence must live wherever data is generated." CNBC reports: In a press release, the company said that its Vera Rubin Space-1 Module, which includes the IGX Thor and Jetson Orin, will be used on space missions led by multiple companies. The chips are specifically "engineered for size-, weight- and power-constrained environments." Partners include Axiom Space, Starcloud and Planet. Huang said Nvidia is working with partners on a new computer for orbital data centers, but there are still engineering hurdles to overcome. "In space, there's no convection, there's just radiation," Huang said during his GTC keynote, "and so we have to figure out how to cool these systems out in space, but we've got lots of great engineers working on it."

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Representative Line: Greater Than False

The Daily WTF
1 week 6 days ago

Today's anonymous submitter passes us a single line of JavaScript, and it's a doozy. This line works, but that's through no fault of the developer behind it.

{arr?.length && shouldNotShow === false > 0 (...)}

Pedantically, this is JSX, not pure JavaScript, but the rules still apply.

So, fun fact in JavaScript: true > 0 is true, and false > 0 is false. Which generally makes sense, but why would you use that here? But this code is worse than it looks, thanks to operator precedence.

The highest precedence operation is the optional chain- arr?.length. The second highest operation? >. So the first part of the comparison that evaluates is false > 0. Which is false. Do you know what's next? ===. So we compare shouldNotShow to false. Then we && that with the potentially falsy value from our arr?.length.

It's all a mess, and it's all so we can compare against false, which we could have just done with a ! operator. !(arr?.length && shouldNotShow).

Our submitter credits this to an offshore team, and this does have the vibe of throwing characters at the problem until it passes the test. Less LLM-guided and more "manually executed Markov chain". That's also an accurate description of the rest of the code in this code base: hand crafted Markov chain generation.

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