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As far as I am able to parse it, this sentence is meaningless. Hacker News, not known for the immense sophistication of its markup, is, somehow, mysteriously,
by samatman 2y ago
As far as I am able to parse it, this sentence is meaningless.
Hacker News, not known for the immense sophistication of its markup, is, somehow, mysteriously, able to tell the difference between one newline (still a paragraph) and more than one (new paragraph).
I don't know how they do it with all the deleted metadata reconstruction algorithm undecidable problems you're sure exist. Perhaps they use an LLM, to do a better job. We may never know for sure.
- mrob 2y agohere is a free verse poem with lines of unknown length and deliberate lack of uppercase or punctuation It's plain text. "Plain text" does not impose any restrictions on formatting. Was the poem two lines or three? Hard wrapping plain text loses information because it inserts non-semantic line breaks using the same character as already used for semantic line breaks. There is no way reliable way to distinguish the two, so the transformation is not reversible in the general case. The best you can do is guess from context, which, as the poem demonstrates, is not always possible.