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)
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.
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.
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 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.
about the science/film problem you're talking about:
I had the same impression. What's happening is that your feed is showing science and film articles, but because there was only recent science articles, you had the impression that your feed did not include film articles
Here's a big copy paste from Harvards school of public health:
www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt/jama-sodium-study-flawed/index.html
A new study would have you believe that low-salt diets raise your risk of dying from heart disease—a surprising finding, and one that’s sure to grab headlines worldwide. The only problem is that the study’s conclusions are most certainly wrong.
In the study, published in the May 4, 2011, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), European researchers followed 3,681 men and women for an average of about eight years. (1) They report that people with the lowest levels of sodium in their urine (a marker of salt intake) at the start of the study had a 56 percent higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than people with the highest levels. Equally unexpectedly, among the 2,096 participants who had normal blood pressure at the start of the study, urinary sodium appeared to have no effect on the development of high blood pressure over six and a half years.
Based on these findings, the study authors call into question recent estimates (2, 3) of the tens of thousands of heart attacks, strokes, and cardiac deaths that could be averted each year—and the billions of healthcare dollars that could be saved—by curbing Americans’ excessive salt intakes. Yet the study has several weaknesses, chief among them its modest size: With less than 4,000 participants—and only 84 deaths due to cardiovascular disease—the study is too small to support the authors’ sweeping conclusions.
Read about why cutting back on salt and sodium is a key to good health
Read about key studies that show the harmful effects of sodium on the heart
Furthermore, the study’s findings are inconsistent with a multitude of other studies conducted over the past 25 years that show a clear and direct relationship between high salt intakes and high blood pressure, and in turn, cardiovascular disease risk. (4–10)
“Take this study with a huge grain of salt, and then dispose of it properly,” says Dr. Walter Willett, chair of the Dept. of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. “This study should not influence recommendations about sodium intake in any way.
Key problems that undermine the study’s conclusions include the following:
Unreliable measurement of sodium intake: The study investigators base their main findings on a single measurement of sodium collected at the start of the study specifically the amount of sodium that study participants excreted in their urine over a 24 hour period. Yet sodium excretion from just one day does not reflect people’s salt intake patterns over long periods of time. It’s weak science to use one-day sodium excretion to predict heart disease or mortality decades later.
Failure to account for key factors that influence sodium intake and heart disease risk: People who are taller (11) or more active (12) tend to have a lower risk of heart disease. They also tend to have higher sodium intakes, simply because they eat more food. Yet the JAMA study authors don’t account for differences in height, physical activity, and total calories. (13) This oversight could make it appear as though high sodium intakes protect against heart disease deaths, when in fact physical activity or height is responsible for the lowered risk.
Other weaknesses: There are other problems with the way that the investigators conducted the study, among them, missing or incomplete data from large numbers of participants. The study investigators, for example, could have accounted for incomplete urine samples by analyzing urinary sodium in relation to creatinine (another compound found in urine), but they did not.
The bottom line is that the researchers were trying to ask questions that their data are incapable of answering, and the study’s many methodological problems make its results unreliable. So the study’s findings do little to refute the strong evidence that cutting back on sodium would save lives.
Americans, on average, consume about 3,400 milligrams of sodium per day. Current U.S. recommendations call for a maximum of 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day (the amount found in a teaspoon of salt), and 1,500 milligrams of sodium (two-thirds of a teaspoon) for people who have high blood pressure or are at high risk of developing it. The latter group includes people who are over the age of 40, are African American, or have somewhat elevated blood pressure (prehypertension)—a group that includes almost 70 percent of adults in the United States. (14) A dash of prevention is worth a pound of cure: Since 90 percent of Americans will develop high blood pressure at some point in their lives, (15) it really makes sense for all of us to curb our sodium intake.
Read more about how to preserve flavor and cut back on salt
Try these delicious low salt recipes from the Culinary Institute of America
Seventy-five percent of Americans’ sodium intake comes from processed foods. (16) That’s why the Institute of Medicine has called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate the amount of salt and sodium allowed in processed foods. (10)
References
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2. Palar K, Sturm R. Potential societal savings from reduced sodium consumption in the U.S. adult population. Am J Health PromotOpens in New Window. 2009; 24:49–57.
3. Bibbins-Domingo K, Chertow GM, Coxson PG, et al. Projected effect of dietary salt reductions on future cardiovascular disease. N Engl J MedOpens in New Window. 2010; 362:590–9.
4. Strazzullo P, D'Elia L, Kandala NB, Cappuccio FP. Salt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of prospective studies. BMJOpens in New Window. 2009; 339:b4567.
5. Intersalt: an international study of electrolyte excretion and blood pressure. Results for 24 hour urinary sodium and potassium excretion. Intersalt Cooperative Research Group. BMJOpens in New Window. 1988; 297:319–28.
6. Cook NR, Cutler JA, Obarzanek E, et al. Long term effects of dietary sodium reduction on cardiovascular disease outcomes: observational follow-up of the trials of hypertension prevention (TOHP). BMJOpens in New Window. 2007; 334:885-8.
7. Cook NR, Obarzanek E, Cutler JA, et al. Joint effects of sodium and potassium intake on subsequent cardiovascular disease: the Trials of Hypertension Prevention follow-up study. Arch Intern MedOpens in New Window. 2009; 169:32–40.
8. Appel LJ, Moore TJ, Obarzanek E, et al. A clinical trial of the effects of dietary patterns on blood pressure. DASH Collaborative Research Group. N Engl J MedOpens in New Window. 1997; 336:1117–24.
9. Sacks FM, Svetkey LP, Vollmer WM, et al. Effects on blood pressure of reduced dietary sodium and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet. DASH-Sodium Collaborative Research Group. N Engl J MedOpens in New Window. 2001; 344:3–10.
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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.