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Comment by suioir | Hacker News Reader

What value do all the emojis provide?

I'm still wondering how people find emojis to insert into their texts. Do they scan the list of emojis to find something suitable for each place in the text? Or maybe they memorized a lot of emojis, they know they exist and it is sort of automatic: you write text and the idea pops up to insert an emoji that I discovered some time ago?

I hope that it is closer to the latter, because I'd kill myself if I was forced to look for emojis so much. From other hand to memorize dozens (hundreds?) of different emojis doesn't seem fun either.

I think you may be in the vast minority here. People born after 1990 grew up using emoji and most keyboards show your top ~25 most used emojis, floated to the top, and keyboards offer search function, this was a largely solved problem by 2014, over a decade ago.

Nobody is writing papers or webpages on mobile virtual keyboards (I hope).

Ah. I see. I replace the virtual keyboad on Android with something else instantly, to get rid of autocorrect and other anti-features. Probably doing that I lose my chance to appreciate the ways of people born after 1990.

I kind of assumed the text was created or at least edited by AI, so the emojis were added automatically.

yeah its pretty funny, i wonder if they prompted the llm to put as many emojis in as possible:

<edit> forgot hn doesnt show emojis, so ill just link to the paragraph: https://github.com/st-tech/ppf-contact-solver?tab=readme-ov-...

8 emojis in 2 sentences, lol

joy.

They made me stop reading halfway through.

It didn't help that they make meaningless claims like

> Physically Accurate: Our deformable solver is driven by the Finite Element Method.

I don't know or care if they used an LLM to write that readme, but it's hot garbage. A pity because it seems like a decent sim otherwise.

What's wrong with that statement? FEM is a good way to handle deformables, but it isn't the only way, so it a fine statement.

It's used as a claim of physical accuracy, but it's not related to that.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but isn't FEM used in physics engines because it is an good approximation for the underlying physics? For example, I believe the Drake Physics engine uses FEM to model deformable materials relating to vehicle crashes at Toyota

FEM is just a numerical technique for solving some kinds of differential equations. It doesn't aitomatically make you accurate or not, just like any other stable solver.

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