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AI your home on street view
- fatkam 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoCould you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing this quite a bit, already, and we're trying for something different here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- fatkam 3y ago[flagged]
- dakial1 3y agoThat is a better comment Fatkam. But one question, your house is blurred because you (or someone) asked Google to do so?
- dang 3y agoI'm not just talking about the GP comment but the dozens of other comments you've posted to HN so far with this account, many of which have been low-quality.
- KronisLV 3y agoThe parent comment that you're replying to reads as a bit... mean in tone? So, to balance it out: your moderation work and also patience is appreciated.
- fatkam 3y ago[flagged]
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- KronisLV 3y agoNot really, I wouldn't endorse the disposition on anyone's part. I'm glad that for the most part HN is moderated in a way that encourages civil discourse, even in disagreement. Not making fun of each other, not ad hominems, not swearing or even trying to make people bad, like other sites on the Internet sometimes do. I've said plenty of immature or "cringe" things in my past and probably will in the future, so for what it's worth, I appreciate gentle nudges in the direction of being better and nicer to those around me.
- hunter2_ 3y ago> not sure why it is such a mystery feature from people on this site What would be substantive would be to teach us that this can be done, rather than point out (based on dubious evidence, AFAICT) that we don't know yet as a means of one-upmanship. I don't believe you're trying to be mean, but I suspect that a vast majority of people would feel otherwise which is worth avoiding if you're able. BTW, lack of "reply" option is probably due to the delay feature (the duration varies based on certain criteria) and can be bypassed by clicking the timestamp, which loads the comment in its own page, on which there is no such delay.
- bayindirh 3y agoLooks 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.
- vmax1 3y agoWe're working on putting it back online - should be up in a few minutes!
- vmax1 3y agoIt's back up now
- elliottcarlson 3y agoLittle 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 3y agoThanks for the feedback :) Btw the code is open source and available here: https://github.com/vidalmaxime/streetview-diffusion https://github.com/vidalmaxime/streetview-diffusion
- Anotheroneagain 3y agoCould 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 3y agoHow long is the generation going to take ? It's been spinning for some time here (Firefox)...
- matsemann 3y agoI 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 3y agoAre there already tools out there? Let's collect some. https://radwege-check.de https://radwege-check.de Lets you compare bicycle lane designs, and how safe both cyclists and motorists feel.
- loceng 3y agoRequired 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 3y agoArchitectural 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.
- edwinjm 3y agoDirect link to the site: https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/ https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/
- wildrhythms 3y agoThe site is: https://www.panoramai.xyz/ https://www.panoramai.xyz/ The site you posted is mentioned in the article but only as a related project.
- yanslookup 3y agoIs 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 3y agoRemove 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 3y ago??? A big empty road with cars and no people doesn’t seem very inviting to me.
- alistairSH 3y agoMaybe 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 3y agoI love the street near me full of kids playing and riding bikes.
- hardcopy 3y agoRemove the cars* from your street people != cars
- teitoklien 3y agoIdk, 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 3y agoIt’s always the cars.
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- soneca 3y agoCould the link be changed to the original site: https://www.panoramai.xyz/ https://www.panoramai.xyz/ ? Just too many ads in the OP
- Tempest1981 3y ago> 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 3y agoWhile 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 3y agoIf 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 3y agoThere is no drought. A few very small sections of California are categorized as “abnormally dry”. That’s all.
- samstave 3y agoSoon: "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)
- dudefeliciano 3y agoI 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 3y agodang, already hugged to death
- amelius 3y agoI 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 3y ago> AI your home... "AI" is now a verb?
- robertlagrant 3y ago> It is a matter of great sadness to the Dutch people that people in the rest of the world are not able to live in cycle-friendly environments. Just flatten the land everywhere to make it as easy to implement as it was in the Netherlands, and hey presto!
- IshKebab 3y agoDefinitely part of the problem but also definitely not the full story. E.g. in Britain plenty of people cycle despite the terrible infrastructure and hills. Besides, now we have electric bikes and e-scooters so hills shouldn't really be a barrier.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> E.g. in Britain plenty of people cycle despite the terrible infrastructure and hills. Of course it's not the full story! I'm not claiming that zero cycling happens here in Britain. > Besides, now we have electric bikes and e-scooters so hills shouldn't really be a barrier. Now, yes. But cultural development takes a while, and those options are just much more expensive anyway. The Netherlands has about the ideal case for cycling, and - awesomely - they took advantage of that 50 years ago, so if it works anywhere it should work there today, after 50 years of planning and development and culture. Suddenly introducing e-bikes in 2024 isn't going to do much compared to flat country and 50 years of development.