Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

What do you suppose "render" means?


The original comment I replied to said "You can navigate a website without visually decoding the image of a website." I replied that decoding is necessary to know where the elements will end up in a visual arrangement, because often that carries semantics. A label that is rendered next to another element can be crucial for understanding the functioning of the program. It's nontrivial just from the HTML or whatever tree structure where each element will appear in 2D after rendering.


2D rendering is not necessary for processing information by neural networks. In fact, the image is flattened into 1D array & loses the topological structure almost entirely b/c the topology is not relevant to the arithmetic performed by the network.


I'm talking about HTML (or other markup, in the form of text) vs image. That simply getting the markup as text tokens will be much harder to interpret since it's not clear where the elements will end up. I guess I can't make this any more clear.


The guy you are talking to is either an utter moron, severely autistic, or for some weird reason he is trolling ( it is a fresh account. I applaud you for trying to be kind and explain things to him, I personally would not have the patience.


Calm down gramps, it's not good for the heart be angry all the time.


Im not angry, Im disappointed. People are going out of their way to help you understand a topic, and the best you can do is be patronising? It means you are over confident, ignorant, rude, slow to learn, disrespectful and I think ungrateful.

If you read through the thread - to me its apparent.

Even if you make burner accounts, this behaviour doesn't help one grow.

But hey gramps could be wrong eh


Relax buddy, it's not that serious.


Yeah you are right, sorry bro I didnt have enough coffee yesterday. My bad.


No one is perfect.




Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: