[HN Gopher] AI your home on street view
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AI your home on street view
Author : chippy
Score : 221 points
Date : 2024-02-20 10:48 UTC (12 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)
| bayindirh wrote:
| Looks like it's hugged to hiatus in a different way. The inrush
| traffic created considerable cost for them, so they have turned
| image generation off.
| readingnews wrote:
| I wonder if this is:
|
| AI use in the real world is still early on, and so it is
| expensive.
|
| OR
|
| Whoa, slashdot (I guess I'm old, perhaps reddit) effect and we
| can not afford the bandwidth, quick turn it off!
|
| OR
|
| Same as above but with CPU costs.
|
| I am curious to know the limiting factor.
| bayindirh wrote:
| It's "An AI worthy GPU is scarce and its TDP is 450+ watts,
| so it's _doubly_ expensive, turn it off! ".
|
| CPU's are way cheaper when compared to GPUs, and image
| bandwidth is at most "mneh!" in Slashdot or in The Register
| terms. _tips hat_
|
| Reported from a data center warmed by GPUs.
| dakial1 wrote:
| They could do like everyone else and add ads or ask for
| donations
| chippy wrote:
| indeed, the dev is asking for donations (buy me a coffee link
| on top right)
|
| https://www.buymeacoffee.com/aurelien3
| vmax1 wrote:
| We're working on putting it back online - should be up in a few
| minutes!
| vmax1 wrote:
| It's back up now
| elliottcarlson wrote:
| Little feedback on the site; the site is very hard to use
| on my current laptop at 1920x1080 - overflow is hidden so I
| can't scroll to the button to perform the generation (and
| after disabling overflow hidden in dev tools I can see
| that's because the page is designed to be a very static
| height).
|
| Great concept though!
| vmax1 wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback :)
|
| Btw the code is open source and available here:
| https://github.com/vidalmaxime/streetview-diffusion
| Anotheroneagain wrote:
| Could you make it a bit more verbose? You really should
| provide some kind of feedback about what's going on. Am I
| waiting for something? Or is it broken? No information
| there.
| toyg wrote:
| How long is the generation going to take ? It's been
| spinning for some time here (Firefox)...
| goda90 wrote:
| Did you ever find out? I'm several minutes in and about
| to bail.
| posterguy wrote:
| open the console and count the errors for yourself
| OccamsMirror wrote:
| Down again?
| matsemann wrote:
| I was gonna say something along that this would be cool to use to
| imagine streets built differently. Like with less traffic, cycle
| lanes, street vendors etc., and then they link to a Dutch website
| already doing something similar. Very cool.
|
| Things like these could be useful in helping to push decision
| makers and the public to see new opportunities. Right now when
| something is being built, it's always a optimistic 3d render on a
| sunny day with people laughing being shown to sway the public in
| favor of the project. Letting us "normal people" fight back
| against certain projects or suggest our own without needing to
| have professional architects draw a concept could be nice.
| asdaq1312512 wrote:
| Are there already tools out there? Let's collect some.
|
| https://radwege-check.de
|
| Lets you compare bicycle lane designs, and how safe both
| cyclists and motorists feel.
| CalRobert wrote:
| Betterstreets.ai made a splash when Dall-e was new, not sure
| what they're doing now.
| jozzhart wrote:
| https://www.betastreets.co.uk/ is a street design tool, uses
| basic AI for object removal from uploaded images
| loceng wrote:
| Required inclusion like this in publicly accessible Google
| Streetview interface would be ideal as well - otherwise there
| are some tricks that are used sometimes to make mammoth
| buildings look much smaller in perspective due to the angles
| (etc) they use and print on their promotional material in order
| to get less resistance from the public.
| sandworm101 wrote:
| Architectural rendering are all about tricks. Look closely
| and you will see the silliness. The human figures used in
| indoor areas are tiny, to make the interior of a building
| look large and spacious. The the people on the sidewalks of
| exterior renderings are huge, to make the building look small
| and innocuous.
| pxmpxm wrote:
| There was a fun thing in London couple years back where for
| sale apartments would be staged with scaled down furniture
| for the same effect.
| sandworm101 wrote:
| There was an airline ad a couple years ago (Singapore??)
| that made a great joke of this. Airline ads are always
| full of tiny women in order to make the seats and windows
| look bigger than reality. The last shot of the commercial
| was of a stewardess reclining literally inside the window
| sill, a person who would have been maybe 18" tall, or a
| window that was 5' tall.
| Vinnl wrote:
| Link for those coming to the comments first:
| https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/
| edwinjm wrote:
| Direct link to the site: https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/
| wildrhythms wrote:
| The site is: https://www.panoramai.xyz/
|
| The site you posted is mentioned in the article but only as a
| related project.
| yanslookup wrote:
| Is that the right site? Is it supposed to do something? I
| type a location in the search bar and then it just sits there
| saying waiting for location...
| bmacho wrote:
| Remove the people from your street, and it will look more
| livable.
|
| Sad but it's true, most people like a certain amount of people
| density / space, and more people than that is uncomfortable.
| konschubert wrote:
| ???
|
| A big empty road with cars and no people doesn't seem very
| inviting to me.
| alistairSH wrote:
| Maybe in the densest cities.
|
| Out here in suburbia? Empty streets have a very dead feeling.
| This is especially true in office parks that are completely
| empty outside work hours.
| CalRobert wrote:
| I love the street near me full of kids playing and riding
| bikes.
| hardcopy wrote:
| Remove the cars* from your street
|
| people != cars
| teitoklien wrote:
| Idk, high density housing is perfectly fine and healthy for
| people to socialize feel a sense of community.
|
| These days humans blame their environment too much, and
| themselves too little.
|
| Maybe a lot of americans have forgotten what it means to be a
| community and being neighbours.
|
| Its pretty fun and bustling to live in a place full of life and
| people, provided all members respect each other, do not make
| too much noise, are polite, etc.
|
| Its not high density that is the problem, its the norm in
| China, India, South East Asia, etc, they live perfectly happy
| lives, rank higher in community bonding, socialising, etc.
|
| It used to be true in America too (level of socialisation),
| maybe that needs to brought back again, instead of complaining
| about high density housing.
| pkamb wrote:
| It's always the cars.
| soneca wrote:
| Could the link be changed to the original site:
| https://www.panoramai.xyz/ ?
|
| Just too many ads in the OP
| Tempest1981 wrote:
| > beauty of a car free environment. ... you can see how your
| street might look without that noisy road and those dirty cars.
|
| Beautiful. But I see that picture-perfect pathway, and wonder the
| cost and time to maintain the vegetation.
|
| Bicycling through California suburbia, I see mostly dead lawns,
| ever since the droughts began. Few people (or cities) have
| time/money/motivation to create beautiful gardens. So I'm
| imagining a dusty gravel pathway instead.
| Foreignborn wrote:
| While nothing is truly maintenance free, methods like
| hardscaping, xeriscaping and even permaculture planting methods
| like STUN (okay a harder sell but still) are easily doable.
|
| In the longer term, the emergent benefit is that bicycle
| friendly infrastructure incentivizes density which saves on
| money and maintenance.
| NegativeK wrote:
| If it's publicly maintained, instead of bushes and grass, it
| could be well designed xeriscaping with local plants and
| gravel/rock.
|
| That's basically what the front of our house is, with very
| minor drip irrigation (that I wish we would get rid of.)
| DoneWithAllThat wrote:
| There is no drought. A few very small sections of California
| are categorized as "abnormally dry". That's all.
| samstave wrote:
| Soon: " _Enhance and beautify your commute with Vision Pro, now
| with automatic urban blight removal - gone are the days of
| seeing strip malls, now strip parks. Homeless encampments?
| Adult recreation areas! Litter? Flowers!_ "
|
| --
|
| But in serious, this will be amazing once Civil Engineers,
| Urban Planners, Landscape architects etc - can use this, but
| have it also calc "cost of options" for each - and have it do
| Environmental Impact analysis based on the plan, AND Title 24
| implications... which are always fun to deal with especially in
| cities such as San Francisco.
|
| (Title 24 are the codes for efficiency, safety etc for new
| builds basically - but they can be a pain in the ass to
| navigate when planning in urban areas in California..
| Environmental Impact studies cost a boatload and are usually
| lamented about for things like "Protect the Frogs of Marin"
| (which affected a lot of building aspirations especially in
| wealthy areas, such as Marin - but ARE very important when
| determining if a new development on top of some natural habit
| is going to F-up the surrounding ecosystem over the next N
| years)
| tokai wrote:
| Why do you assume that maintaining some bushes should be
| significant over maintaining a road?
| persolb wrote:
| Seems reasonable to me. I cut the simple bushes in front of
| my house back from the path much much more often than the
| township does anything with the road.
|
| Manpower wise, the bushes along the path probably take as
| much average labor as the road.
|
| Maybe material/gas to resurface the road every 10 years would
| make the road cost more per year.
| QuercusMax wrote:
| Lawns are incredibly stupid in California. There are so many
| more appropriate ways to cover ground. There are definitely
| choices better than a dusty gravel pathway.
| not2b wrote:
| We took out our front lawn and replaced it with a drought
| tolerant garden with redwood chips, succulents and other
| drought tolerant plants. It looks much better than it used to
| look, and we got part of it paid for by money from the Santa
| Clara County water district (though we paid most of the cost).
| dudefeliciano wrote:
| I would have though the service is suspended due to image
| generation being too expensive, but it looks like google maps
| quota has been exceeded
| RankingMember wrote:
| dang, already hugged to death
| amelius wrote:
| I want an AI that better interpolates between different
| viewpoints in Street View.
|
| Because right now I often get lost when going from point to
| point.
| whyenot wrote:
| > AI your home...
|
| "AI" is now a verb?
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