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Ask HN: How to build data pipelines to continuously ingest customer files?

I'm working on onboarding a customer who wants to deliver their data as a weekly dump of CSVs. We’re supposed to ingest that data and get it into our system to provide analytics for their team.I was initially thinking of just building a one-off ETL script, but I was warned the files may randomly break spec (new/renamed fields, etc) due to errors in the process that generates them. Is there a...

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Re:The computers are getting better at writing on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:10AM (#27038439)
Does anybody know what the author means when he asserts that "nearly all writers he knows don't like writing"?

Seems contradictory to everything I've heard about the iteration loop between practice, play, and discovery that characterizes mastery in any craft, be it programming, writing, music, sports, and so on.

Re:Transcribed police scanners in real-time on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:57PM (#23479326)
Maybe https://www.deepgram.com can help with a custom speech-to-text model?