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Re: Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

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Post by Tempest1981 »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #28
jll29 wrote: post #10

IMHO There is a huge gap for affordable hotels for normadic workers and business people. Hotel rooms suck when you need to use them for work. Typically there are massive beds and I travel alone if for work. There is no proper chair, no writing table at all or one too small, and the sockets tend to be in the wrong corner of the room. If I was an entrepreneur outside of software looking for a gap, I might have invented…

I usually stand at the ironing board (they're typically height adjustable). Keyboard goes on board, laptop goes on trashcan which is on board (just to get the screen higher). I usually bring some paracord so I can tie the whole contraption to something heavy so it doesn't wobble. Sometimes I'll use the cord to hang a second travel monitor from some nearby art--still working on a proper harness for it. It's fun. I occ…

lol, sounds janky but fun. Would like to see a picture.

I'm surprised ironing boards are so readily available.

Re: Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

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Post by chefandy »

godelski wrote: post #33
chefandy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They know what they’re doing. Most hotels ‘are’ built for work, but they’re built for what most workers use them for: work travel . Though probably common for developers, I’ll bet it’s pretty unusual for the other like 96% of people to want to do deep work in a hotel room. Especially if you’re on the road for work, you’re probably the sort of worker that needs to physically be somewhere remote to accomplish a goal, w…

Hanlon's Razor I think there's a simpler explanation: most people don't do work when they go to hotels, they do the work like you are discussing. Doesn't mean they are intentionally being hostile to remote workers. One thing I've realized about the world is that a lot of people do things just because others are. "Momentum is a bitch." I will bet you very few people are thinking this way, at least very few that make d…

I’m not sure how what I said could be interpreted as suggesting they are hostile to remote workers.

And I think there’s a very good chance hotels would not benefit from this. Maybe in a tech center, but that’s a tiny fraction of hotels. Good office chairs are designed to be very adjustable, but they do tend to break when people twist one thing too far the wrong way because they don’t know how it works, and it would probably take staff 10 minutes just to figure out it was broken rather than just misadjusted. They’re also expensive as hell, and charging a guest $3000 because their luggage got caught on and tore up the mesh seat is probably not going to fly. Small higher-res monitors are also more expensive than huge TVs, and as or more delicate. The staff would spend more time than is probably worth it telling gran and gramps that they can’t use the “little television” like that. All of this stuff has to be handled with smoothness and grace 24/7 by a desk staff that don’t regularly use these items in their professional lives. You can’t just say “it’s a computer monitor gramps don’t use it” and hang up the phone. Many people also consider office equipment ugly, and how the room visually hits when you walk in is a huge consideration. Some weary overworked travel-worn office drone would probably want to jump out the window if they opened the door to their safe place of respite only to see a the better part of a corporate workstation looking back at them.

Designing experiences can be complicated and difficult, and that’s even more true because many of the most important aspects of it aren’t even consciously perceived by the intended audience. They all just fit organically unto a unified experience.

Re: Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

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Post by petepete »

kristoffervh wrote: post #25
jll29 wrote: post #10

IMHO There is a huge gap for affordable hotels for normadic workers and business people. Hotel rooms suck when you need to use them for work. Typically there are massive beds and I travel alone if for work. There is no proper chair, no writing table at all or one too small, and the sockets tend to be in the wrong corner of the room. If I was an entrepreneur outside of software looking for a gap, I might have invented…

Take a look at CitizenM. I travel a lot for work and that is my go-to place due to how tailored it is for also getting work done.

I like CitizenM, the only negative is a lack of kettle in the room.

Re: Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

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Post by zeristor »

windows2020 wrote: post #15

This is like an automated version of 'Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek' but for hotels. https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htm

This will come in handy to be able to perform the Riker manoeuvre:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lVIGhYMwRgs

Re: Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

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Post by a2800276 »

How happy are you with the results?The execution is great, but I feel the idea didn't really validate well. Every single sample ended up with pictures like this: (https://hotel.trvcdn.com/380/de/800024805/700034633/nh-colle...). While I'm impressed at how accurately you can detect chairs with wheels, that doesn't seem to be an indicator of an ergonomic workspace. Quite frankly, I would have preferred (and been fine with) sitting on the bed with my laptop in every hotel I clicked on.

Re: Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos

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Post by tobi_bsf »

dchuk wrote: post #46

I travel extensively for work. Where are you guys staying that doesn’t have a basic desk and chair with outlets and stuff ready to go? Even the most basic Marriott property has a totally comfortable workspace in every room

I travel extensively for work, and in Europe this is a real Problem. I stayed in Steigenberger Hotels in a "Business Suite" that does not had a chair and a desk. Marriot properties like moxy for instance are guaranteed to have no desk in the room.
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