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This is such a good point, my mind has recently been opened to how much happens in the Spanish, French and Russian speaking parts of the world that I had no ide

This is such a good point, my mind has recently been opened to how much happens in the Spanish, French and Russian speaking parts of the world that I had no idea about because it just isn't in English. Does anyone know of resources that are HN-like or could be used to fill in the gaps on interesting developments in non-English countries/regions?

nextstepguy 4y ago
Four posts with NIT in the title as we speak. I never noticed.
assusdan 4y ago
There is russian-speaking community https://habr.com/ https://habr.com/ which I found to be similar to HN (but less business-oriented). However, I do not know any easy way to exclude all translated from english-speaking sites articles and news to read only local ones.
- throwaway290 4y ago
  Keep in mind that posting translations of English articles, especially uncredited, is easy karma for Russian (and adjacent) native speakers who also know English.
  - assusdan 4y ago
    Yes, unfortunately I did not found any blocklist setting to disable all translated articles.
    - throwaway290 4y ago
      I think it would be naive to think everyone would self-label translations...
      - assusdan 4y ago
        It's actually enforced by Habr rules https://habr.com/ru/docs/help/posts/ https://habr.com/ru/docs/help/posts/
        throwaway290 4y ago
        It's in the guidelines, but not sure it is enforced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32236353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32236353
  - einpoklum 4y ago
    I wish posting translated Russian and Chinese article, credited, could be easy Karma on HN. (Not since I know these languages, but since I would like to be able to read some of those news.)
    - throwaway290 4y ago
      As a Russian, I feel like something new generally comes from English sources (not necessarily from Americans, Brits or Australians, but from people who can and choose to use English, even if they are Chinese or Russian).
chmod775 4y ago
My favorite example of this is that China is arguably leading the world in AI research (at least by shitty metrics such as number of papers), yet research from there very rarely shows up on HN. It feels like any topic on here is skewed by a factor of three towards the west, and a factor of ten towards the US. You could get the impression that 80% of the world population are doing nothing of relevance.
- arc-in-space 4y ago
  I'd believe that, frequently when looking for information on some obscure topics in AI, I run into papers or blog posts with Chinese authorship.
- Ekaros 4y ago
  Also I'm missing all the cool space stuff they could be doing and must be doing. It really is untapped market.
  - wildmanx 4y ago
    The market is tapped. Just not by the U.S. / western countries.
- Glawen 4y ago
  This is done on purpose and it is the great advantage of being the cultural and language leader of the world: you decide what is newsworthy and you show yourself as the leader. Moreover you can claim/steal findings by translating research in English and make it known to the world.
- marketerinland 4y ago
  I work for an AI company. And .. yeh .. the Chinese research is essentially our secret sauce.
Banana699 4y ago
>my mind has recently been opened to how much happens in the Spanish, French and Russian speaking parts of the world This is a much more general and tragic insight in fact, the vast majority of human experience is not available to you due to, among many other reasons, language barriers. Consider all the songs, novels, films, music, books and stories that you will never even hear about, because they are written or performed in a language other than the ones you know. If you know a second language, consider all the times you have thought "Oh gee, this is so much easier to express than in my mother tongue" about a neat idiom or grammatical construct, and think of the literal hundreds or thousands of languages that you don't even know the names of, and how full they must be of valuable new concepts and delianations and ways of thought and utterance.

nextstepguy 4y ago

Four posts with NIT in the title as we speak. I never noticed.

assusdan 4y ago

There is russian-speaking community https://habr.com/ https://habr.com/ which I found to be similar to HN (but less business-oriented). However, I do not know any easy way to exclude all translated from english-speaking sites articles and news to read only local ones.

throwaway290 4y ago
Keep in mind that posting translations of English articles, especially uncredited, is easy karma for Russian (and adjacent) native speakers who also know English.
- assusdan 4y ago
  Yes, unfortunately I did not found any blocklist setting to disable all translated articles.
  - throwaway290 4y ago
    I think it would be naive to think everyone would self-label translations...
    - assusdan 4y ago
      It's actually enforced by Habr rules https://habr.com/ru/docs/help/posts/ https://habr.com/ru/docs/help/posts/
      - throwaway290 4y ago
        It's in the guidelines, but not sure it is enforced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32236353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32236353
- einpoklum 4y ago
  I wish posting translated Russian and Chinese article, credited, could be easy Karma on HN. (Not since I know these languages, but since I would like to be able to read some of those news.)
  - throwaway290 4y ago
    As a Russian, I feel like something new generally comes from English sources (not necessarily from Americans, Brits or Australians, but from people who can and choose to use English, even if they are Chinese or Russian).

chmod775 4y ago

My favorite example of this is that China is arguably leading the world in AI research (at least by shitty metrics such as number of papers), yet research from there very rarely shows up on HN. It feels like any topic on here is skewed by a factor of three towards the west, and a factor of ten towards the US. You could get the impression that 80% of the world population are doing nothing of relevance.

arc-in-space 4y ago
I'd believe that, frequently when looking for information on some obscure topics in AI, I run into papers or blog posts with Chinese authorship.
Ekaros 4y ago
Also I'm missing all the cool space stuff they could be doing and must be doing. It really is untapped market.
- wildmanx 4y ago
  The market is tapped. Just not by the U.S. / western countries.
Glawen 4y ago
This is done on purpose and it is the great advantage of being the cultural and language leader of the world: you decide what is newsworthy and you show yourself as the leader. Moreover you can claim/steal findings by translating research in English and make it known to the world.
marketerinland 4y ago
I work for an AI company. And .. yeh .. the Chinese research is essentially our secret sauce.

Banana699 4y ago

>my mind has recently been opened to how much happens in the Spanish, French and Russian speaking parts of the world This is a much more general and tragic insight in fact, the vast majority of human experience is not available to you due to, among many other reasons, language barriers. Consider all the songs, novels, films, music, books and stories that you will never even hear about, because they are written or performed in a language other than the ones you know. If you know a second language, consider all the times you have thought "Oh gee, this is so much easier to express than in my mother tongue" about a neat idiom or grammatical construct, and think of the literal hundreds or thousands of languages that you don't even know the names of, and how full they must be of valuable new concepts and delianations and ways of thought and utterance.