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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 monit
by arnath 2y ago
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 2y ago> 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.
- schmorptron 2y agoByteDance shared the TikTok content recommender, which I'd argue is somewhat close to an ad recommender :)
- ipsum2 2y agoYou mean the paper, not the source code?
- paxys 2y agoPlus it helps them recruit engineers who are already familiar with their tech stack.
- ipsum2 2y ago> You’ll note that nobody is open sourcing their ad recommender Actually... (2019) https://ai.meta.com/blog/dlrm-an-advanced-open-source-deep-learning-recommendation-model/ https://ai.meta.com/blog/dlrm-an-advanced-open-source-deep-l... Source code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dlrm https://github.com/facebookresearch/dlrm Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00091 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/scaling-instagram-explore-recommendations-system/ 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 It's a little out of date, but the internal one is built with the same concepts, just more advanced modeling techniques and data.
- mhlakhani 2y agoAs a sibling commenter said, it helps brand and recruiting - which meta cares about
- bigtimesink 2y agoMaybe, but the gold chain, million dollar watch wearing CEO talking about masculine energy doesn't help the brand.
- jay-barronville 2y ago> 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 2y agoImagining that there's anything "normal" about that knucklehead is why "masculinity" is such an easy target for parody.
- martinsnow 2y agoWhat's unattractive about how do you do fellow humans?
- jay-barronville 2y ago> 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 2y ago