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Blog post on how this was built: https://blog.insightdatascience.com/elastik-nearest-neighbor...

Curious how this would affect private ventures like SpaceX?

Fair, perhaps the cursive analogy is too strong, though I'm sure that cursive still has a role in research of historical documents. IPA still has an important role in specialized situations, but I don't quite think it's something that should be known for the general public (e.g. the average wikipedia reader).

I guess I'm an anomaly in that I read far more books than watching movies, but I agree that most consumers will want a variety of music and shows, unlike books. However, isn't the price point ($35/month), which is 4x more than Spotify, roughly in line with the price for a single book, which is roughly 4x an album.

I guess the main difference is not that the price ratio between subscription and individual items is off, but rather that most consumers don't want 1 book a month. It's a bummer that they don't give people an option, but I'm still a fan of Safari...and I hope this move will mean they drastically improve the Safari app, much like Netflix has doubled down on Streaming now that they don't do DVDs.

Having purchased many books thru O'Reilly, and now using Safari Online - I'm a huge fan of this move. Feels to me like going from iTunes to Spotify, or Netflix DVDs to Streaming.

This is a great feature that has been missing for so long. Can't help but feel that IPA will go the way of cursive once tools like this propagate.

Thanks, we've included it in the Unified Batch processing because of its ability to have large window sizes that enable batch processing.

Fair point - the set of technologies is based off the teams we work closest with, which admittedly have a bias towards open source and Linux. So far, our map is far from comprehensive, so appreciate the suggestions (exactly what we're looking for by show HN).

To that point, just added CosmosDB, and plan to add others soon.

We put Dataflow and Flink in the "Unified Processing" since they can handle batch and streaming (as opposed to tools that only handle steaming).

We might add them explicitly to Streaming as well though.

Thanks, we tried to keep it simple and streamlined. If you know of any features or common patterns that would be helpful, let us know.