I highly recommend "Blinkist". It is an app with only audio book summaries and written summaries. It was a key step in my successful digital detox. The fact that they were summaries was easier do create daily habits.
Tip: In your digital detox, I also highly recommend an app like "Freedom" to block your time wasters. It's a bit like parental control but for yourself to timebox time spent on the news or HN.
Note: This won't help you personally but expect to help HN readers in general.
Would suggest to keep delegated access but use automated filters in Gmail so that those mails:
- skip the inbox
- are automatically marked as read
- either deleted or place those mails in a separate and hidden folder
Crime is not the appropriate word but there's clearly a well documented history of abusing conditions toward data labeling workers [1] [2] [3]
For those looking for an AI data labeling service also tries to help workers along the way, here's a plug to the company I started "dataprep.be" [4]
We have a small preference for working workers with special needs (deaf, mute and employees with small handicaps). Public subsidies for these type of workers help our case in the EU as well as contraints for some public institutions in the EU to hire more handicap workers.
With clients more sensitive to costs, we also work with remote data labelers from developing countries. We help putting checks in place to limit forced and child labor. We pay 5% extra so they have time to learn high demand tech skills. (Using Khan Academy and free access to a normally 250$/year Datacamp subscription)
Happy to work with the HN crowd or just receive feedback and mentoring!
(My email is in my profile)
The fact that you refer to workers in "developing countries" as being leveraged for clients "more sensitive to costs" should tip you off that what you're doing is exploitative and dehumanising.
Let me know if you want to be put in contact with a partner working at one of the key consultancies advising EU countries' governments (+EU itself and some other countries) to help them evaluate their impact on climate and strategies to reduce them.
I did an internship at IBM (~15 years ago) and they said that not only does IBM have the most patents, it tries to have the most patents awarded every year. You could just send half arsed ideas to a team of lawyers and they would write it up into a proper patent.
Getting patents in your name was a big part of moving up the internal engineering ladder.
The reason is security. Like for some new wifi routers, you can't connect directly to it. This approach clearly has the downsides you mentioned but also makes it harder for hackers to mess with your thermostat.
That is a stupid reason. Put your smart devices behind a Tor Hidden Service, so that they're basically invisible to anyone but you, but still accessible from everywhere. Generate a keypair for every device you want to allow access from and you're safe from most credible threats.
That's what our media has to offer? An interview by a comedian? I agree we need Fauci to walk us through it. I'd like a panel interview conducted by a reputable interviewer.
In Cambodia there's a high standing restaurant with insects instead of proteins. When cooked by a good chef, insects can be delicious and visually pleasing!
I could buy the delicious part, but I don't think there's anything that could be done to insects to make them "visually pleasing" to me, at least as long as they are still recognizable as insects.
I would LOVE to use the bedside lamp I already have to progressively turn on every morning at a specific time.
I'm sure there's a timer out there combined with a dimer that will replace expensive sunrise alarm clocks.
Concerning the nature sounds adapted to your sleepcycle, there's already many apps doing that for free.
Tip: In your digital detox, I also highly recommend an app like "Freedom" to block your time wasters. It's a bit like parental control but for yourself to timebox time spent on the news or HN.
Note: This won't help you personally but expect to help HN readers in general.