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

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Post by veeti »

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.

In my experience Holiday Inn Express usually has a good computer chair too.

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

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Post by wslh »

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…

In many hotels there are other spaces where you can work beyond your room.

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

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Post by ghaff »

echelon_musk wrote: post #72

I would like to do a variation on this theme where instead I scan pub photos for pool tables and create an index in London. It can be hard to find a pub with a pool table these days!

Heh. Other than a place in SF that had a bunch of pool tables near the Moscone, haven't seen one in a bar in ages. There used to be one in the bar that we hung out at in my grad school.

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

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Post by GuB-42 »

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…

Hotel rooms are simply not designed to be places to do work in. They are places for you to sleep in, so of course, the bed is the centerpiece.

I took a look at business hotels in Japan. These are hotels explicitly designed for work travel and nothing more. Small rooms, bed, shower, but not much to actually work. And it actually makes sense. If you are on a work trip, why would you want to work in your hotel room? The whole point of a work trip is to visit a work place, that's where you are going to work, not your hotel room. In fact, from my limited experience of work travel, doing more work is the last thing I want to do when I am back at the hotel, it is often an exhausting day, and there is a good chance I have to get up early the next day, so the hotel room is for relaxation and sleep.

If you really want to work in your hotel room, or do anything other than using the bed and shower for that matter, you are probably better off with "apartment hotels" and short term rentals. If available, student residence rooms can be a minimal option for working and sleeping, that's what they are designed for. Note that there are also hotels with co-working spaces.

Maybe what you want, that is essentially a short-stay student room for grownups will happen one day, but I see many obstacles in making it a "get rich quick" investment. It may not be a great hotel for those who just want to sleep (or have other kind of fun). And if you want to eat in there, you will lack the amenities an appartement offers. And if you are not alone, a co-working space may be a better option.

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

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Post by appreciatorBus »

echoangle wrote: post #59
KolmogorovComp wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really, businessmen/women usually need their stuff ironed.

And they are ironing their stuff on their own in their hotel room? Isn’t there a service for that?

Sure, but if your company isn’t going to pay it, then you are going to prefer to iron it yourself. :)

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

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Post by intelVISA »

Scoundreller wrote: post #13
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…

Once I specifically booked an airbnb because they promoted their 17" LCD with hdmi, usb-c and dvi inputs. I'm like, why don't more offer this?

Plugging in random USBs is brave!

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

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Post by myself248 »

MaheshNat wrote: post #32

Why stop at just office chairs? Why not detect all categorizable objects in every photo and rank based on that? Could also crop just the object detection regions of each image, run those cropped images through CLIP/SigLIP, then UMAP and HDBSCAN to view a 2 or 3 dimensional latent space clustering of office chair types.. might reveal some info as to what kinds of chairs exist in what geographical regions. Could use a…

There's an Internet Movie Car Database, and independently, an Internet Movie Firearms Database. Surely there are more.

I feel like they should be one database with object_type=car and object_type=firearm respectively. And then I can finally search by object_type=vacuum_cleaner and find out the wild-looking ball-shaped vacuum in that sci-fi movie whose name escapes me...

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

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Post by bfeynman »

oefrha wrote: post #38
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…

For all the problems of AirBnBs and co., every single one I ever booked was better for working with a computer than every single hotel room I ever booked within 2x price.

That seems like nonsense. Hotel chains and esp business travel ones it'svery standard for hotels to have desks and a chair. Not saying it's that nice but those are way cheaper than airbnbs usually

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

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Post by gruturo »

chefandy wrote: post #20
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…

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…

I agree with your point, generally, but after COVID-19, remote working is opening new use cases: I occasionally like to travel to somewhere nice, far away from the office, and work from there for a week, because I'm now allowed to.

So I too now care about a decent chair, desk and maybe even a tv I could turn into a second screen. Wifi can be there or not, I bring my own connectivity just to play it safe, this is now quite cheap. Bonus if the place is a couple time zones away from my office so I have my mornings or afternoons free.

I'm not a huge fan of AirBnB but it's been more reliable than hotels for a few of these factors: hotel TVs are locked-down and many won't accept an HDMI input, assuming there's a socket at all. Normally you're not offered (barring extravagant prices) more than just a bedroom, so the chance of table and chair being any good (or existing) are not so good), etc.

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