Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)

Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are perso

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Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

Hey it’s Hassaan & Quinn – co-founders of Tavus, an AI research company and developer platform for video APIs. We’ve been building AI video models for ‘digital twins’ or ‘avatars’ since 2020.

We’re sharing some of the challenges we faced building an AI video interface that has realistic conversations with a human, including getting it to under 1 second of latency.

To try it, talk to Hassaan’s digital twin: https://www.hassaanraza.com

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Ask HN: How close are we to replace animal models with software?

In pre-clinical trials for some diseases, animal models are notoriously nearly useless. The story of the C9orf72 mice model (a familial ALS/MND model) who lived healthily in a Broad lab, while their counterparts at Harvard died quickly [0, 1] has been widely discussed.

In general, for nervous system diseases, mice models are not translatable to humans. One reason might be that their nervous system is quite different from those of primates/humans, for example, great primates have direct mot

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