Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (July 17, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for July 17, 2023 :</p>
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A Firefox-only minimap (2021)
Summary: Stefan Judis, a web developer, shares a Firefox-only minimap feature for his blog posts using the element() CSS function, which is exclusive to Firefox. The function allows displaying images of arbitrary HTML elements on a page, and it's live, updating as users interact with the content. The CSS code provided defines another HTML element as a background image.
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Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?
Summary: A recent paper by Jiang et al., "Low-Resource Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors," claimed that the gzip method outperformed neural-network-based methods. However, Ken Schutte found a possible bug in the kNN code, which may have inflated the accuracy numbers. The paper reported a top-2 accuracy rather than a kNN(k=2) accuracy. After correcting the calculations, the gzip method's performance dropped significantly, changing the conclusions drawn from the experiments.