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raptor556··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Built a separate service that used spacy
raptor556··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I made a real estate thing that basically scraped a bunch of data and then built a NLP query interface on top to query real estate data in natural language.

Couldn't find a customer so it makes $0 haha. Here's an example of the system working, minus a pretty UI: https://imgur.com/a/ITDKtPC

raptor556··on Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds
To be clear, are you saying this is something you think was caused by the vaccine, or something you had before the vaccines? If the latter, what are you suggesting occurred in Jan 2020?
raptor556··on Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds
I've done this, labs seems normal, though I don't think we tested for vitamin deficiencies.
raptor556··on Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds
The problem is what even is "long covid"? I've had a doctor tell me it doesn't actually exist, and other people tell me it's to blame for basically everything.

Has the definition been consolidated now that covid is (seemingly) a little less political?

raptor556··on Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds
I've recently realized that I've been unusually tired, daily, and lack the usually high ambition and drive I had prior to January 2020, which is when I caught COVID.

I never got the vaccine and I'm curious if my symptoms are related to COVID, or related to being a few years older, or changes to exercise schedules, or a general change in life outlook after the past few years, or even mild depression or something. It may even be completely psychosomatic.

I'm considering getting the vaccine just to see if it makes a difference. I'm curious if anyone else is/was in a similar situation.

raptor556··on Tell HN: From $200/mo to $18k in 5 years as solo founder
Was it just through email? Did they verify any of the info you sent them?
raptor556··on Tell HN: From $200/mo to $18k in 5 years as solo founder
How did buyers perform due diligence?

I have surface level experience in the private equity industry and was surprised that there seems to be very, very little due diligence performed on sales through microacquire, so I'm building a due diligence platform for buyers and sellers doing those sorts of deals.

I'm curious about how your buyers performed due diligence.

raptor556··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
I've been talking about this for awhile now, but I used to run a marketing service that streamed all reddit content in real time and did text analysis and bot detection. It's definitely a rough estimate but about ~65% of text content was determined to be a bot. I am entirely convinced that there are large entities (political campaigns, nations, etc.) that are using bot networks on social media sites like reddit to simulate "consensus" in online discussions and thus gently sway public opinion.
raptor556··on Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?
If I were to restart my career, this is likely the field I'd pursue. I read The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee last year and just became enraptured in the possibilities.

I'm wondering if there's anything I can contribute to that field as someone with general programming capabilities.

raptor556··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
"The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

If anyone can recommended some other "beginner" books for learning genetics I would really appreciate it.