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mtweak

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About mtweak

Building tools that make charitable impact visible.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49126322

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

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    Comment #49126302

    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 …

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    Comment #49118094

    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 furthe…

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    Comment #49098125

    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:…

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    Comment #49090304

    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 pr…

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    Comment #49024640

    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…

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    Comment #48979899

    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 iter…

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    Show HN: CharitySense Nonprofit Due Diligence

    Research the US-based nonprofits before donating. You can search for nonprofits or causes and dive deep into IRS and website disclosures. This is less like a charity rating site li…

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    Comment #47484271

    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 wate…

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    Comment #47294507

    Not wrong

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    Comment #47294461

    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 alongs…

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    Comment #47294453

    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…

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    Comment #36015857

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

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    Show HN: CharitySense a donor-centric data browser

    I'd like to share with you a project I've been working on called CharitySense. It's a straightforward and user-friendly website designed to help donors like you make more informed …

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    Comment #18611711

    Bitfusion | Staff Engineer, full-time | Austin | Onsite Bitfusion is an Austin, TX and a Bay Area company developing advanced virtualization technologies for the most compute-inten…

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    Comment #18117367

    Bitfusion | Austin, Texas | Full Time | Onsite Job description We are looking for an extremely talented systems programmer with excellent C/C++ skills, deep algorithms and data str…

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    Comment #16741388

    Bitfusion | Senior Networked Systems Engineer | Austin, TX | Remote OK | bitfusion.io We are looking for an extremely talented systems programmer with excellent C/C++ skills, deep …

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    Comment #13302976

    Bitfusion | www.bitfusion.io | Austin, TX / Bay Area | Systems Engineer, Compiler Engineer, Distributed Systems Engineer | Full-Time, Onsite Bitfusion is an Austin, TX and a Bay Ar…

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