[arnath]

This is really cool! I've always thought that one thing preventing major competitors to AWS/Azure/GCP is the lack of easy-to-use tooling for machine level monitoring like this. When I was at Microsoft, we built a tool like this that used Windows Firewall filters to track all the network traffic between our services and it was incredibly useful for debugging.

That said, as with anything from Meta, I approach this with a grain of salt and the fact that I can't tell what they stand to gain from this makes me suspicious.

[theptip]

> the fact that I can't tell what they stand to gain from this makes me suspicious.

Meta is one of the biggest contributors to FOSS in the world. (React, PyTorch, Llama, …). They stand to gain what every big company does, a community contributing to their infra.

You’ll note that nobody is open sourcing their ad recommender, that is the one you should be skeptical about if you ever see. You don’t share your secret sauce.

[ipsum2]

> You’ll note that nobody is open sourcing their ad recommender

Actually... (2019) https://ai.meta.com/blog/dlrm-an-advanced-open-source-deep-l...

Source code:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/dlrm

Paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00091

Updated 2023 blog post, but solely for content recommendation, but ads recommendation is ~90% the same:

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/09/ml-applications/scalin...

It's a little out of date, but the internal one is built with the same concepts, just more advanced modeling techniques and data.

[schmorptron]

ByteDance shared the TikTok content recommender, which I'd argue is somewhat close to an ad recommender :)

[ipsum2]

You mean the paper, not the source code?

[paxys]

Plus it helps them recruit engineers who are already familiar with their tech stack.

[mhlakhani]

As a sibling commenter said, it helps brand and recruiting - which meta cares about

[bigtimesink]

Maybe, but the gold chain, million dollar watch wearing CEO talking about masculine energy doesn't help the brand.

[jay-barronville]

> Maybe, but the gold chain, million dollar watch wearing CEO talking about masculine energy doesn't help the brand.

Why not exactly? Between Meta’s great contributions to the open-source ecosystem and Mark behaving more like a normal man nowadays, right now is the only time in a long time that I’ve considered applying to go work at Meta. I’ve heard several of my colleagues and friends say the same thing in recent months.

[quesera]

Imagining that there's anything "normal" about that knucklehead is why "masculinity" is such an easy target for parody.

[martinsnow]

What's unattractive about how do you do fellow humans?

[jay-barronville]

> Imagining that there's anything "normal" about that knucklehead is why "masculinity" is such an easy target for parody.

You’re certainly entitled to your opinions and ad hominems. Many folks, including myself, disagree with you, so there’s that.

[quesera]

Yep, and you yours of course.

But man is that dude a bad example of how to be a human.

I'll cut him some slack for growing up in public with stupid money and no one to regulate his impulses, but uff da.

Wake me up when he's old enough for his lagging prefrontal cortex to catch up with the rest of him.