Hacker News with Generative AI: Transparency

Implementing Order-Independent Transparency (osor.io)
The reasoning for wanting Order-Independent Transparency comes from Order-Dependent Transparency being the way transparency rendering ends up being implemented in most computer graphics scenarios, and certainly in the majority of real-time rendering contexts.

Computer Graphics, Rendering, Transparency

67 points by ibobev 10 days ago | 23 comments

Google admits document leak related to search algorithm is authentic (nypost.com)
Google has confirmed that a massive leak of some 2,500 internal documents related to its search engine is authentic – and one expert said the trove shows that “Google tells us one thing and they do another” when it comes to its mysterious algorithms.

Google, Search Engines, Leaks, Technology, Transparency

8 points by r_singh 14 days ago | 1 comments

Google Hit 1B DMCA Requests Last Year – Here's What They're Really Used For (unbound.news)
Torrentfreak recently reported that Google had processed over 1,000,000,000 DMCA requests in the past 12 months.

Copyright, Law, Google, Technology, Transparency

12 points by zxlk21e 16 days ago | 0 comments

Google's Shadow Campaigns (microsoft.com)
Since moving into my current role at Microsoft almost seven years ago, I’ve worked hard to be genuine, responsive, and transparent.

Google, Microsoft, Business Strategy, Transparency

13 points by cmilton 23 days ago | 0 comments

DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub (github.com/github)
Inspired by Lumen (formerly Chilling Effects) and Google, this repo contains the text of DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices we've received here at GitHub.

Legal, DMCA, Open Source, GitHub, Transparency

105 points by LorenDB 24 days ago | 30 comments

Google's Shadow Campaigns (microsoft.com)
Since moving into my current role at Microsoft almost seven years ago, I’ve worked hard to be genuine, responsive, and transparent.

Google, Microsoft, Transparency, Marketing

19 points by jmsflknr 24 days ago | 1 comments

Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds (oxfam.org)
Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C.

World Bank, Climate Finance, Transparency, Accountability, Non-profit Organizations

344 points by wallbrownf 25 days ago | 139 comments

Nondisclosure: Covid vaccine ad blitz sidestepped transparency rules (highlandcountypress.com)
A bun in the toaster oven,” a woman exclaims off-camera, handing an ultrasound image to family members who erupt into tearful emotion over the news. “Oh my God!”

COVID-19, Healthcare, Advertising, Transparency, Public Health

4 points by hammock 46 days ago | 0 comments

Tim Peters – Dispelling Information Asymmetry (tim-one.github.io)
This is about my (Tim Peters) 3-month ban from CPython core development, announced 7-Aug-2024. The intent is to eliminate the “information asymmetry” that usually accompanies a ban, by disclosing my interactions with PSF representatives in full. I’ve always advocated for transparency in all matters. I didn’t want an “anonymous” ban to begin with, and want no secrets (aka “privacy”) during the ban either. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Python, Transparency, Open Source, Controversy, Community

74 points by shazeline 51 days ago | 25 comments

Transparency in Cislunar and Interplanetary Spaceflight Activities (planet4589.org)

Spaceflight, Transparency, Cislunar, Interplanetary

9 points by ironyman 54 days ago | 0 comments

How to Hack the Breakthrough Prize (Ft. Session Confusion) (varun.ch)
In 2023, I discovered a critical vulnerability in the Breakthrough Challenge website. After over one year since it was patched, I am disclosing the bug for the sake of transparency. I believe this class of vulnerability, which I am introducing as 'Session Confusion', is often overlooked.

Security, Web Security, Bug Bounty, Transparency

29 points by varun_ch 57 days ago | 8 comments

California Legislature's unwritten rule: negotiate in secret, not in public (calmatters.org)
A tense exchange this summer between two California Democrats revealed an unwritten policy discouraging lawmakers from negotiating bills in legislative committees. It begs the question: Are lawmakers negotiating bills in secret and then rubber-stamping the decisions in public?

Politics, California, Transparency, Lawmaking

11 points by pessimizer 63 days ago | 2 comments

Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026 (fikku.com)

Europe, Labor Laws, Transparency, Employment

166 points by taubek 73 days ago | 85 comments

Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models (news.mit.edu)

Transparency, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Data Science

20 points by meysamazad 79 days ago | 2 comments

EFF Presses Federal Circuit to Make Patent Case Filings Public (eff.org)

Law, Patents, Public Access, Transparency, EFF

102 points by hn_acker 94 days ago | 20 comments

Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web (jakearchibald.com)