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Her father couldn't read so she built a program that mails 3.5 million books to children every month.

That's an amazing contribution to literacy

It's quite a bit more extreme than 20/80. It's also surprising that there is increasing consolidation vs. not.

Have you thought of active fingerprint pollution? Mathematically, find the search term that has the farthest embedding + noise than your current search term. You search for Harley Davidson, a parallel search is done for "3 mo old diapers".

Like another person said: passive fingerprint protection will be limited.

Hi HN, OP here.

There is about a terabyte of XML IRS disclosures behind this number, so it's quite an exercise to derive. A few other interesting stats that explain the stat further:

- "Revenue” is not the same as donations - The the nonprofit dataset includes hospitals, universities, insurers and other tax-exempt businesses. Even patient fees, tuition, and investment income count as this revenue.

- The revenue skew is pretty extreme: $164k is the median, $6.43M is the average

- Scale attracts more scale: The concentration of revenue is increasing over the years

- As you can guess: hospitals and universities are among the largest orgs by revenue.

Definitely a different view of what a nonprofit means!

This is extremely problematic. Much of news is highly syndicated, so what looks like 10 credible sources are actually just 2. I think the best you can aim for is empirical sources: receipts, videos, photo evidence, public disclosures directly at the source. Archiving is ok if disclosed.

I don't think LLMs can discern truth when the majority of news sources are incentivized primarily for views.

I can imagine this useful to 'compress' gigabytes of data onto a 2d canvas quickly. For that, I appreciate the effort.

One thing that would be useful is to read up on Ed Tufte's principles of data visualization. Many graph libraries don't implement basic visualization principles to make they key point clear, easy to see while still keeping the full depth and complexity of data visible.

Hi HN,

After building a greppable dataset form 990 filings (~8.8M filings over 12 years), I've gotten more questions about how much leaders within nonprofits get paid. It turns out that the sector is extremely diverse: hospitals, insurance, grantmaking foundations, and hobby groups. The highest median top pay go to medical professionals rather than CEOs. There were also some interesting patterns across religious affiliation and geographic location of headquarters.

If there’s another way you’d like to see the data sliced, let me know and I’ll see what I can pull.

Mazhar

I'm also wondering if "perfect" and "good enough" are not really as important now vs. when a team of software engineers had to spend sprints implementing features. The rate of iteration is faster now, the rate of regenerating entire code bases is days. We can perhaps over engineer /more/ today than before.

OP here: I visited the dialysis center in Jigjiga last year while doing field work with Amoud Foundation. The CKDu link to fluoride in groundwater was new to me. It seems most water infrastructure programs are scoped to access, not purification grade. Happy to answer questions on the data or the field visit.

Not wrong

Agree.

Yes, non-profits is a superset of "charitable non-profits". The IRS puts all 501(c)(3) organizations under the same filing framework. Hospitals and universities are in there alongside food banks and shelters. Breaking them out by NTEE code gives a more granular picture is a great idea.

Fair point. I updated the article. The 7.7% is the "Grants and other assistance" line on the 990, and it applies to the $500B charitable nonprofit portion, not the full $3T. A food bank distributing food shows up under program expenses, not grants. The original framing was too easy to misread.

The bigger issue is that even the program expenses line doesn't tell you whether the program worked. A food bank spending $2M on operations could be feeding 50,000 people or 5,000. The form doesn't say.

Update: just added a ChatGPT plugin! Login to ChatGPT, and "Install an unverified plugin" -> charitysense.com

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We've been working on an interposing library for guaranteeing GPU computation and it would be great to get your feedback. Any chance we sync up? My email is in my profile.

Got it, this is actually already supported. At the very end of the blog post there is a link to create a custom configuration. You can create any N:M configuration, that is any number of clients to servers and therefore the level of performance scaling or GPU pooling.

Check it out: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=us...

Hmm, can you elaborate? Do you mean having multiple smaller instances talk to a single GPU instance?

We've only done cursory evaluation of NAMD scaling. We saw a 7X improvement going from a non-GPU system to remote GPUs located in a different datacenter over shared 10g. We're not sure if that was with a representative dataset (MD is not our skill set), so if you can help us with a case study we'd be excited to work with you. Please do contact me.

You can absolutely do that. That's actually one of the more interesting configurations: the ability to pool GPU systems.

Just go to the custom link at the bottom of the page, the link is: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=us...

There you can select any number of clients and servers. For example: 5 clients and 1 server (many to one), or 5 clients to 5 servers (many to many).

That's right, you can install on your own GPU servers. Infiniband+RDMA transport is also supported which typically doubles the number of GPUs you can scale to.

We're adding support for other clouds, particularly ones with higher-end GPUs so feedback like this is good to know.

Yes! Whenever you spin up one of our AMIs, there is a README that will guide you through a couple of simple examples. We are about to publish performance results on the monster machines in a few days, so watch out for it. Scaling depends on the compute density of the GPU workload, but in general we've seen pretty good results with 1) Deep learning (caffe) scaling to 16 GPUs (near native scaling with local GPUs, especially deep nets), 2) Raytracing of photo-realistic and complex scenes - near linear scaling with increasing GPUs, and 3) Physical modeling and simulation does very well too.

Yes, your app would have to support multiple GPUs. What's done here is remoting CUDA/OpenCL/etc. calls so that remote GPUs can be accessed from a single instance. When performing device/platform enumeration, all GPUs appear to be directly connected to a single instance -- hence no change to the application required.

Windows support is coming in mid-April, stay tuned!

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Bitfusion.io - Automatic acceleration

We're hiring for several positions in our Core and Cloud technologies groups. Check us out online.

Performance Engineer Austin, TX

We are looking for an experienced Performance Engineer to help deliver best in class hardware acceleration using modern GPUs, CPUs, and other advanced coprocessors. Role responsibilities include development of dynamic and automatic optimization technologies using hardware acceleration, defining and implementing benchmarking methods, as well as performance tuning, optimization and root cause analysis. A successful candidate will play a key-role in delivering unique end-to-end solutions for customers and helping to define the product roadmap. Strong problem solving and out of the box thinking a must.

Cloud Engineer Austin, TX

We are looking for an entrepreneurial DevOps & Cloud engineer who is highly technical, has a hands on approach, and is very passionate about the code they write. Candidate should be an excellent team player but should also be able to work independently. At times candidates will be expected to work with very little direction and may be tasked with leading entire projects. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define the product roadmap, features, drive architecture, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects to make them happen. The candidate is expected to be a collaborative and proactive member of a fast paced agile development team. Willing to stay up to date on latest industry innovations and capable of translating those into actionable best practices and techniques for the company. Capable of analysing business requirements and technical specifications to architect new solutions. Passionate about continuous integration, test driven development, and experienced in writing automated tests.

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If you're really interested in this stuff and looking for an opportunity, we're looking for talented LLVM developers for our Austin location.

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