https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ A world wide map of rail tracks run by (german) rail enthusiasts.
https://bahn.guru
Easy price calendar for (mostly) German trains.
Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with your point on principle, but to balance a bit: I'm trilingual but don't (yet) speak German. Yes there's no fair reason why English should be the standard language, but there's value in a standard language and that's the closest we have. Edit: I'm not American and English isn't my native language
Authors addendum: This post was a mistake on my part. Please downvote this post. Thank you! I would rather have a retract option, but there is none here on HN. Original post: Apologies to you on behalf of people who made you feel uncomfortable. Full disclosure: I had (still have?) negative biases/sentiments/stereotypes towards Americans: being ignorant, self-absorbed, reckless, careless etc. And this almost made me h…
You're right, benhurmarcel. My input here has come to nothing, and it wasn't a good input to begin with.
I wish there was a retract option.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#203Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english. https://www.arte.tv/en/
As a French my definition of a documentary is what Arte produce. I recently discovered what a documentary is for an American and it's night and day. American documentaries are entertainment package with actions and conspiracies. There's really not a lot of discovery and knowledge.
Can you explain how and why you think a documentary such as Ken Burns' Civil War series, a seminal example of American documentaries, is filled with action and conspiracies?
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#204There's a home automation protocol that's been around for over 20 years called KNX. It's backed by big names (ABB, Hager, Gira, Osram, Mean Well) however outside of Germany it's pretty much unknown. Compared to ZigBee or Z-Wave it's wired and the config is stored in the devices themselves, so there's no single point of failure. It has strict certification requirements so you can be guaranteed that products from diffe…
Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
So, the OP asks about non-english sites, and the _first_ reply is a "you should do that in English". WTF?
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
The heise forum sadly has been a cesspit of trolls for a long time. In the last 5 years it got even worse because some of the conspiracist and nazi trolls from the Telepolis forum came over to the tech forums an I think heise don't know how to properly deal with them.
I know Heise (the publication) for its good coverage of specific issues, the most recent I recall being the data collection practices of coronavirus-related apps [1]. I've always assumed it's something like a better version of The Register, [2] which I used to read a while ago, but don't really know that much about it, especially the comments section. Thanks for the heads-up. 1. https://www.heise.de/news/Corona-Apps-…
Heise is definitely one of the best tech media/print houses.
But their handling of their comment section is seriously lacking and it looks like it is stuck in early 90ies usenet discussions and worse.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#206In French you have a few interesting options, notably: - LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising), - LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance - Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain an…
I would add Linuxfr.org and specifically the user journals : https://linuxfr.org/journaux : it is the website of the french libre software community.
Lots of interesting content you don't find anywhere else.
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#207https://tweakers.net Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board. It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).
Nice! Any other Dutch websites you can recommend?
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#208There's a home automation protocol that's been around for over 20 years called KNX. It's backed by big names (ABB, Hager, Gira, Osram, Mean Well) however outside of Germany it's pretty much unknown. Compared to ZigBee or Z-Wave it's wired and the config is stored in the devices themselves, so there's no single point of failure. It has strict certification requirements so you can be guaranteed that products from diffe…
Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
Learn German, Dummkopf!
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
So if I understand correctly, Latin characters aren't used for loanwords like this in written text? When I was young I used to play some MSX games in Japanese, the language doesn't really matter for a lot of these 1980s games, and you would frequently see English words and terms written in Latin characters used all over the place. Why won't this work for Hindi? Are people not familiar with these characters? Or is the…
> So if I understand correctly, Latin characters aren't used for loanwords like this in written text? It happens in casual text - WhatsApp forwards, SMS messages. But for official writing - you pick a language and stick to it, as much as possible. This made more than a few notices impossibly hard to read when I was in college, because the Hindi felt archaic, even if it wasn't. Other countries had a rich culture of re…
I think English is the lingua franca of science and computing pretty much anywhere now? Just as Latin was in the past? Newton didn't publish in English, but in Latin, as did most people of his day.
In Dutch, I would just say "de server is kapot" ("the server is broken"). There is no attempt to translate words like "server" to Dutch. You see the same in Indonesian (standard Indonesian, Bahasa, there are many Indonesian languages) where these kind of words are just copied ad-verbatim from either English or (for older words) Dutch. For many technical terms in the IT world there are no "Dutch words": just the English ones. The exceptions seem to be the ones where there are Dutch words that are close enough to the English ones ("function" → "functie", "variables" → "variabelen"). Both languages having similar Germanic roots with Latin/Greek influences helps I suppose.
And in those cases all the languages use the same Latin script, so it's easier to include loanwords and technical terms.
So it seems to me, unless I'm misunderstanding something, that it's at least partly an issue of script translations? Adopting the example someone else posted, why shouldn't "नमस्ते आप कैसे हैं? मेरा server ओली हूँ" be considered acceptable Hindi?
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