Hacker News with Generative AI: Transparency

European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents (arstechnica.com)
Brussels has ordered Elon Musk to fully disclose recent changes made to recommendations on X, stepping up an investigation into the role of the social media platform in European politics.

Social Media, Regulation, European Union, Elon Musk, Transparency

9 points by nemoniac 10 hours ago | 0 comments

EU orders X to hand over info on recent algorithm changes (theregister.com)
The European Commission is stepping up its ongoing investigation of Elon Musk's X with a request to examine recent changes made to the platform's recommendation algorithms.

EU Regulations, Social Media, Algorithms, Transparency

10 points by thunderbong 11 hours ago | 1 comments

Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm (ft.com)

Brussels, Government, Transparency, Algorithms

14 points by belter 15 hours ago | 1 comments

Congress Trading Report for 2024 (unusualwhales.com)

Politics, Finance, Transparency

4 points by coloneltcb 10 days ago | 0 comments

Transparency? Not from the European Commission (38C3) [video] (media.ccc.de)
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union with the duty to uphold the law. The transparency of the Commission´s actions and decisions range from questionable to abysmal.

Transparency, European Union, Politics, Government, Law

7 points by DyslexicAtheist 20 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon forces sellers to divulge COGS, won't reimburse other costs (amazon.com)
We’re updating our Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) inventory reimbursement policy to help provide you greater transparency and more predictability in how reimbursements are calculated for items that are lost or damaged before a customer order.

Amazon, E-commerce, Business, Policy, Transparency

53 points by ilamont 30 days ago | 73 comments

Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri) (palant.info)
Transparency note: According to Colibri Hero, they attempted to establish a business relationship with eyeo, a company that I co-founded. I haven’t been in an active role at eyeo since 2018, and I left the company entirely in 2021. Colibri Hero was only founded in 2021. My investigation here was prompted by a blog comment.

Transparency, Digital Advertising, Business, Online Privacy

76 points by ookware 31 days ago | 7 comments

Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (reddit.com)
Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages (self.redscarepod)

Healthcare, Business, Transparency, Public Relations

101 points by paganel 43 days ago | 114 comments

Deprecating outdated issues on the GitHub public roadmap (github.com/github)
At GitHub, transparency and clarity are at the heart of our relationship with the community.

Software, GitHub, Transparency, Roadmap

116 points by preya2k 54 days ago | 90 comments

An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone's Ballots to Combat Mistrust (nytimes.com)
After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.

Politics, Elections, Transparency, Idaho, Conspiracy Theories

9 points by pcl 55 days ago | 15 comments

An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone's Ballots (nytimes.com)
After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.

Elections, Voting, Transparency, Idaho, Conspiracy Theories

8 points by aiz0Houp 56 days ago | 2 comments

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 68 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 72 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 73 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 81 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 81 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 81 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 82 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 103 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 109 days ago | 25 comments

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

Spaceflight, Transparency, Cislunar, Interplanetary

9 points by ironyman 112 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 114 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 121 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 130 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 137 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 152 days ago | 20 comments

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

Web Development, Video, Transparency

151 points by surprisetalk 163 days ago | 62 comments

Google says it is obligated to disclose confidential info to U.S. government (targettrend.com)

Government, Transparency, Legal Issues, Google

124 points by emememem 164 days ago | 101 comments

United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency (fas.org)