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overflowcat··on Huawei launches first laptops using home-grown HarmonyOS
It's already Tier 2. [1]

*-unknown-linux-ohos:

> Tier: 2 (with Host Tools): aarch64-unknown-linux-ohos, armv7-unknown-linux-ohos, x86_64-unknown-linux-ohos

> Tier: 3: loongarch64-unknown-linux-ohos

OpenHarmony has no support for gcc. All the toolchains are LLVM. [2]

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/platform-support/openharmony...

[2]: https://gitee.com/openharmony/third_party_llvm-project

overflowcat··on Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire
ArkTS compiles into Ark Bytecode, and there is JIT on the user's device. According to feedback from the developer community, ArkTS is slower than V8, but Huawei has incorporated a multi-threading model into it.
overflowcat··on Ask HN: Has anyone else fallen (romantically) for an AI?
Fantasizing in your own mind is still different from actually talking with a real LLM. I think the poor responses from an LLM can easily shatter the illusions in your mind.
overflowcat··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
This is essentially what's known as 'digital migration'[1] in mainland China. Many streaming services aren't available in China; foreign companies that do operate here often have their features reduced. So, apart from buying foreign SIM cards and using multiple Apple accounts, we typically subscribe to something called 'airports,' which provide standardized, open-source VPN protocols with servers (called 'nodes') in various regions. Besides bypassing internet censorship, these nodes often use residential broadband and specify which streaming and LLM services they can unlock.

[1]: https://blog.shuziyimin.org/

overflowcat··on European word translator: an interactive map
Wiktionary has dialect maps for common Chinese vocabulary that showcases the differences in terminology across various regions of Chinese, rather than their similarities. Example: sleep -> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:zh-dial-map/%E7%9D%A... , hide-and-seek -> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:zh-dial-map/%E6%8D%8...

p.s. I'm saying this because most of these terms that has a dial-map are common in daily conversation. The differences in written Chinese vocabulary aren't as significant; how scientific and technical terms are expressed is largely determined by your administrative region.

overflowcat··on GitHub repo extensively mirrored by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN
This website was indeed created with sorta [marketing](https://www.c114.com.cn/news/16/a1243786.html). It is an attempt by CSDN and Huawei to build an open-source platform in China, promoting their compliance of regulations.

My view is that Huawei's involvement is likely primarily aimed at helping to establish package repositories for its Harmony OS and OpenEuler (such as [ohpm](https://ohpm.openharmony.cn/#/cn/home)), which require (real-name) identity verification via mobile phone numbers for package publishing.

overflowcat··on GitHub repo extensively mirrored by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN
> Developers can indeed request Gitcode to remove their projects, but this requires developers to authorize Gitcode using their Github accounts to verify their identity.

https://www.landiannews.com/archives/104677.html

Some users have reported that despite authorizing through GitHub, they are still unable to claim their namespace.