#Public Open Source Projects APIs

[feminist-space]

"Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts.

Instagram is a necessity for many artists, who use the platform to promote their work and solicit paying clients. But Meta is using public posts to train its generative AI systems, and only European users can opt out, since they’re protected by GDPR laws. Generative AI has become so front-and-center on Meta’s apps that artists reached their breaking point.

“When you put [AI] so much in their face, and then give them the option to opt out, but then increase the friction to opt out… I think that increases their anger level — like, okay now I’ve really had enough,” Jingna Zhang, a renowned photographer and founder of Cara, told TechCrunch.

Cara, which has both a web and mobile app, is like a combination of Instagram and X, but built specifically for artists. On your profile, you can host a portfolio of work, but you can also post updates to your feed like any other microblogging site.

Zhang is perfectly positioned to helm an artist-centric social network, where they can post without the risk of becoming part of a training dataset for AI. Zhang has fought on behalf of artists, recently winning an appeal in a Luxembourg court over a painter who copied one of her photographs, which she shot for Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam.

“Using a different medium was irrelevant. My work being ‘available online’ was irrelevant. Consent was necessary,” Zhang wrote on X.

Zhang and three other artists are also suing Google for allegedly using their copyrighted work to train Imagen, an AI image generator. She’s also a plaintiff in a similar lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway AI.

“Words can’t describe how dehumanizing it is to see my name used 20,000+ times in MidJourney,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “My life’s work and who I am—reduced to meaningless fodder for a commercial image slot machine.”

Artists are so resistant to AI because the training data behind many of these image generators includes their work without their consent. These models amass such a large swath of artwork by scraping the internet for images, without regard for whether or not those images are copyrighted. It’s a slap in the face for artists – not only are their jobs endangered by AI, but that same AI is often powered by their work.

“When it comes to art, unfortunately, we just come from a fundamentally different perspective and point of view, because on the tech side, you have this strong history of open source, and people are just thinking like, well, you put it out there, so it’s for people to use,” Zhang said. “For artists, it’s a part of our selves and our identity. I would not want my best friend to make a manipulation of my work without asking me. There’s a nuance to how we see things, but I don’t think people understand that the art we do is not a product.”

This commitment to protecting artists from copyright infringement extends to Cara, which partners with the University of Chicago’s Glaze project. By using Glaze, artists who manually apply Glaze to their work on Cara have an added layer of protection against being scraped for AI.

Other projects have also stepped up to defend artists. Spawning AI, an artist-led company, has created an API that allows artists to remove their work from popular datasets. But that opt-out only works if the companies that use those datasets honor artists’ requests. So far, HuggingFace and Stability have agreed to respect Spawning’s Do Not Train registry, but artists’ work cannot be retroactively removed from models that have already been trained.

“I think there is this clash between backgrounds and expectations on what we put on the internet,” Zhang said. “For artists, we want to share our work with the world. We put it online, and we don’t charge people to view this piece of work, but it doesn’t mean that we give up our copyright, or any ownership of our work.”"

Read the rest of the article here:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/a-social-app-for-creatives-cara-grew-from-40k-to-650k-users-in-a-week-because-artists-are-fed-up-with-metas-ai-policies/

[mariacallous]

Palantir, facing mounting public scrutiny for its work with the Trump administration, took an increasingly defensive stance toward journalists and perceived critics this week, both at a defense conference in Washington, DC, and on social media.

On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, which is hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public, including journalists.

Later that day, Palantir had conference security remove at least three other journalists—Jack Poulson, writer of the All-Source Intelligence Substack; Max Blumenthal, who writes and publishes The Grayzone; and Jessica Le Masurier, a reporter at France 24—from the conference hall, Poulson says. The reporters were later able to reenter the hall, Poulson adds.

The move came after Palantir spokespeople began publicly condemning a recent New York Times report titled “Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans” published on May 30. WIRED previously reported that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was building a master database to surveil and track immigrants. WIRED has also reported that the company was helping DOGE with an IRS data project, collaborating to build a “mega-API.”

The public criticism from Palantir is unusual, as the company does not typically issue statements pushing back on individual news stories.

Prior to being kicked out of Palantir’s booth, the WIRED journalist, who is also the author of this article, was taking photos, videos, and written notes during software demos of Palantir FedStart partners, which use the company’s cloud systems to get certified for government work. The booth’s walls had phrases like “REAWAKEN THE GIANT” and “DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP!” printed on the outside. When the reporter briefly stepped away from the booth and attempted to re-enter, she was stopped by Eliano Younes, Palantir’s head of strategic engagement, who said that WIRED was not allowed to be there. The reporter asked why, and Younes repeated himself, adding that if WIRED tried to return, he would call the police.

After the conference ended, Younes responded to a photo from the conference that the reporter posted on X. “hey caroline, great seeing you at the expo yesterday,” he wrote. “can't wait to read your coverage of the event.” Palantir did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.Got a Tip?Are you a current or former government employee who wants to talk about what's happening? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at 785-813-1084.

Poulson tells WIRED that he, Blumenthal, and Le Masurier were also watching demos at Palantir’s booth prior to being kicked out. After a Tuesday panel with Younes and Palantir engineer Ryan Fox, Poulson says Le Masurier approached Younes near Palantir’s booth and asked about the company’s work for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. A Palantir employee stepped between them and claimed that Palantir had asked her to leave “multiple times,” according to a video of the interaction viewed by WIRED, and she was escorted out of the conference hall shortly after.

“Apparently, Palantir was so annoyed that they not only kicked her out, but demanded that Max and I be kicked out as well,” Poulson says. “So the security guards came and got us.”

The group was allowed back inside the conference hall after explaining their situation to friendly security guards, Poulson says. The guards asked them to respect any requests from attendees to stop filming.

Some conference organizers appeared to be on high alert after a pro-Palestine demonstrator interrupted a panel with Palantir’s head of defense, Mike Gallagher, on Monday. The demonstrator was subsequently ejected from the conference, Poulson reported. A handful of pro-Palestine activists were also thrown out on Tuesday after disrupting a panel with Eric Schmidt and Thom Shanker, a former Pentagon reporter at the The New York Times. (Palantir formed a partnership with the Israeli military in January 2024, and Google is part of a $1.2 billion cloud contract with the Israeli government.) Poulson tells WIRED that on Wednesday, the conference began mandatory bag-checks at at least one talk.

During Younes’ Tuesday panel with fellow Palantir employee Fox, which was focused on what the two men do at Palantir and why they like working there, Younes made passing references to perceived critics of the company. When talking about the reasons he joined Palantir, he said, “I was sick and tired of people with bad intentions,” Younes said, “many of them who are actually here.” He later added that he’s a “big believer” in the views of Palantir’s cofounders, particularly those of CEO Alex Karp. (Karp is known for his nonapologetic stance toward Palantir’s work with military and defense agencies and immigration authorities.) “Playing a role in helping them, to prove the doubters and the haters wrong, that just feels really good,” Younes said.

On Tuesday, Palantir posted on X claiming the Times article was “blatantly untrue” and said that the company “never collects data to unlawfully surveil Americans.” The Times article did not claim that Palantir buys or collects its own data, though it’s a common misconception that the company does so.

The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment by WIRED.

On Wednesday, Palantir’s official X account continued posting about the Times article on X. “Want to meet Dr. Karp?” the post read. “In 90 seconds, identify the technical errors in this article. DM us a video in the next 24 hours - whoever finds the most inaccuracies gets an interview with him.”

[fujowebdev]

Streaming today!

Come witness @essential-randomness tackle a new project: building her consulting resume on her Astro website as she revamps her worksona for her next era (The One With a Job™).

Twitch Link

The idea of this series is to approach it like a "build in public" project: what does it take to go from individual contributor, to open source project(s) lead, to consultant? Let's (hopefully) find out together!

Also, small update on LAST WEEK's work: the bobabot discord example now refreshes the authentication token, making it fully possible to host your own Discord bot that posts to a BobaBoard instance!

See the bot here And see it being built (and learn about REST APIs) in last week's video!

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the Union of Concerned Scientists:

The U.S. oil and gas industry has sounded its mating call to the incoming Presidential administration with a policy wish list remarkable for its unabated pursuit of profits and defiance of climate science and economic trends. 

The American Petroleum Institute (API) released a “policy roadmap” addressed to President-elect Donald Trump on November 12 outlining five “actions” he can take to bolster their agenda. However, the “actions”—given euphemistic titles like “protect consumer choice”—actually aim to roll back science-based environmental protections in order to maximize already massive profits. The policy details within each action roughly correspond with recommendations in Project 2025, the infamous policy agenda penned in part by figures from the first Trump administration and supported by several anti-climate organizations.  

Here’s a breakdown of the roadmap’s requests along with an explanation of how they would roll back environmental progress. 

API’s anti-environment entreaties 

Fight clean cars. API’s first policy proposal is repealing rules designed to support the shift to electric vehicles that the oil and gas industry has fought for decades. API specifically targets Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to reduce carbon emissions from automobile tailpipes and fuel economy standards established by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. API also targets an EPA waiver for a 2022 California rule that would reduce pollution from new gasoline-powered cars while increasing sales requirements for zero-emission vehicles.

Pump up gas. The second policy proposal is to reinstate permitting of liquified natural gas (LNG), also known as methane, a fossil fuel that is a potent source of global warming emissions. The Biden administration temporarily paused pending approvals for new LNG export authorizations in January 2024, citing the need to update the review process to best reflect impacts on climate, domestic energy prices, and health—especially as borne by frontline communities.

Reverse protections for public land and health. The third policy proposal focuses on federal lands that API believes should be opened up to drilling, both onshore and offshore. It recommends repealing a Bureau of Land Management rule that would put conservation on equal footing with drilling and ranching as a legal use of public lands, in addition to adding more leasing opportunities from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s offshore leasing program. But the most blatantly anti-climate demand in this area would repeal a Congressionally approved fee on every metric ton of methane that high-emitting oil and gas facilities produce above specific levels. The oil and gas industry is responsible for 30 percent of human-caused methane emissions.

Muzzle environmental reviews. The fourth policy proposal involves the federal permitting process, a perennial enemy of the fossil fuel industry. The statute in their crosshairs is the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), which the industry has fought since it was signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1970s. API and Project 2025 sing from the same sheet in their NEPA-related demands, which would curtail scientific and environmental reviews, limit public notice and comment, and block access to the courts. 

Preserve industry giveaways. API finishes off its wish list with requests to preserve fossil fuel industry tax breaks that cost taxpayers some $3 billion each year, regardless of how much they’re currently paying at the pump.

[this-week-in-rust]

This Week in Rust 593

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The Embedded Rustacean Issue #42

This Week in Bevy - 2025-03-31

Project/Tooling Updates

Fjall 2.8

EtherCrab, the pure Rust EtherCAT MainDevice, version 0.6 released

A process for handling Rust code in the core kernel

api-version: axum middleware for header based version selection

SALT: a VS Code Extension, seeking participants in a study on Rust usabilty

Observations/Thoughts

Introducing Stringleton

Rust Any Part 3: Finally we have Upcasts

Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later

LLDB's TypeSystems: An Unfinished Interface

Mutation Testing in Rust

Embedding shared objects in Rust

Rust Walkthroughs

Architecting and building medium-sized web services in Rust with Axum, SQLx and PostgreSQL

Solving the ABA Problem in Rust with Hazard Pointers

Building a CoAP application on Ariel OS

How to Optimize your Rust Program for Slowness: Write a Short Program That Finishes After the Universe Dies

Inside ScyllaDB Rust Driver 1.0: A Fully Async Shard-Aware CQL Driver Using Tokio

Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 2

Introduction to Monoio: A High-Performance Rust Runtime

Getting started with Rust on Google Cloud

Miscellaneous

An AlphaStation's SROM

Real-World Verification of Software for Cryptographic Applications

Public mdBooks

[video] Networking in Bevy with ECS replication - Hennadii

[video] Intermediate Representations for Reactive Structures - Pete

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is candystore, a fast, persistent key-value store that does not require LSM or WALs.

Thanks to Tomer Filiba for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Calls for Testing

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If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear in this list, add a call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

No calls for testing were issued this week by Rust, Rust language RFCs or Rustup.

Let us know if you would like your feature to be tracked as a part of this list.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

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If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the website through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

Updates from the Rust Project

438 pull requests were merged in the last week

Compiler

allow defining opaques in statics and consts

avoid wrapping constant allocations in packed structs when not necessary

perform less decoding if it has the same syntax context

stabilize precise_capturing_in_traits

uplift clippy::invalid_null_ptr_usage lint as invalid_null_arguments

Library

allow spawning threads after TLS destruction

override PartialOrd methods for bool

simplify expansion for format_args!()

stabilize const_cell

Rustdoc

greatly simplify doctest parsing and information extraction

rearrange Item/ItemInner

Clippy

new lint: char_indices_as_byte_indices

add manual_dangling_ptr lint

respect #[expect] and #[allow] within function bodies for missing_panics_doc

do not make incomplete or invalid suggestions

do not warn about shadowing in a destructuring assigment

expand obfuscated_if_else to support {then(), then_some()}.unwrap_or_default()

fix the primary span of redundant_pub_crate when flagging nameless items

fix option_if_let_else suggestion when coercion requires explicit cast

fix unnested_or_patterns suggestion in let

make collapsible_if recognize the let_chains feature

make missing_const_for_fn operate on non-optimized MIR

more natural suggestions for cmp_owned

collapsible_if: prevent including preceeding whitespaces if line contains non blanks

properly handle expansion in single_match

validate paths in disallowed_* configurations

Rust-Analyzer

allow crate authors to control completion of their things

avoid relying on block_def_map() needlessly

fix debug sourceFileMap when using cppvsdbg

fix format_args lowering using wrong integer suffix

fix a bug in orphan rules calculation

fix panic in progress due to splitting unicode incorrectly

use medium durability for crate-graph changes, high for library source files

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Positive week, with a lot of primary improvements and just a few secondary regressions. Single big regression got reverted.

Triage done by @panstromek. Revision range: 4510e86a..2ea33b59

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count Regressions ❌ (primary) - - 0 Regressions ❌ (secondary) 0.9% [0.2%, 1.5%] 17 Improvements ✅ (primary) -0.4% [-4.5%, -0.1%] 136 Improvements ✅ (secondary) -0.6% [-3.2%, -0.1%] 59 All ❌✅ (primary) -0.4% [-4.5%, -0.1%] 136

Full report here.

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

Tracking Issue for slice::array_chunks

Stabilize cfg_boolean_literals

Promise array::from_fn is generated in order of increasing indices

Stabilize repr128

Stabilize naked_functions

Fix missing const for inherent pointer replace methods

Rust RFCs

core::marker::NoCell in bounds (previously known an [sic] Freeze)

Cargo,

Stabilize automatic garbage collection.

Other Areas

No Items entered Final Comment Period this week for Language Team, Language Reference or Unsafe Code Guidelines.

Let us know if you would like your PRs, Tracking Issues or RFCs to be tracked as a part of this list.

New and Updated RFCs

Allow &&, ||, and ! in cfg

Upcoming Events

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Rust Nürnberg online

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Communicate with Channels in Rust

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Rust Circle Meetup

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Fourth Tuesday

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**Beyond embedded - OS development in Rust **

2025-04-24 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | Rust Berlin

Rust Hack and Learn

2025-04-24 | Virtual (Charlottesville, VA, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Part 2: Quantum Computers Can’t Rust-Proof This!"

Asia

2025-04-05 | Bangalore/Bengaluru, IN | Rust Bangalore

April 2025 Rustacean meetup

2025-04-22 | Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL | Rust 🦀 TLV

In person Rust April 2025 at Braavos in Tel Aviv in collaboration with StarkWare

Europe

2025-04-02 | Cambridge, UK | Cambridge Rust Meetup

Monthly Rust Meetup

2025-04-02 | Köln, DE | Rust Cologne

Rust in April: Rust Embedded, Show and Tell

2025-04-02 | München, DE | Rust Munich

Rust Munich 2025 / 1 - hybrid

2025-04-02 | Oxford, UK | Oxford Rust Meetup Group

Oxford Rust and C++ social

2025-04-02 | Stockholm, SE | Stockholm Rust

Rust Meetup @Funnel

2025-04-03 | Oslo, NO | Rust Oslo

Rust Hack'n'Learn at Kampen Bistro

2025-04-08 | Olomouc, CZ | Rust Moravia

3. Rust Moravia Meetup (Real Embedded Rust)

2025-04-09 | Girona, ES | Rust Girona

Rust Girona Hack & Learn 04 2025

2025-04-09 | Reading, UK | Reading Rust Workshop

Reading Rust Meetup

2025-04-10 | Karlsruhe, DE | Rust Hack & Learn Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe Rust Hack and Learn Meetup bei BlueYonder

2025-04-15 | Leipzig, DE | Rust - Modern Systems Programming in Leipzig

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2025-04-15 | London, UK | Women in Rust

WIR x WCC: Finding your voice in Tech

2025-04-19 | Istanbul, TR | Türkiye Rust Community

Rust Konf Türkiye

2025-04-23 | London, UK | London Rust Project Group

Fusing Python with Rust using raw C bindings

2025-04-24 | Aarhus, DK | Rust Aarhus

Talk Night at MFT Energy

2025-04-24 | Edinburgh, UK | Rust and Friends

Rust and Friends (evening pub)

2025-04-24 | Manchester, UK | Rust Manchester

Rust Manchester April Code Night

2025-04-25 | Edinburgh, UK | Rust and Friends

Rust and Friends (daytime coffee)

2025-04-29 | Paris, FR | Rust Paris

Rust meetup #76

North America

2025-04-03 | Chicago, IL, US | Chicago Rust Meetup

Rust Happy Hour

2025-04-03 | Montréal, QC, CA | Rust Montréal

April Monthly Social

2025-04-03 | Saint Louis, MO, US | STL Rust

icu4x - resource-constrained internationalization (i18n)

2025-04-06 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Kendall Rust Lunch, Apr 6

2025-04-08 | New York, NY, US | Rust NYC

Rust NYC: Building a full-text search Postgres extension in Rust

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TetaNES: A Vaccination for Rust—No Needle, Just the Borrow Checker

2025-04-14 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Coolidge Corner Brookline Rust Lunch, Apr 14

2025-04-17 | Nashville, TN, US | Music City Rust Developers

Using Rust For Web Series 1 : Why HTMX Is Bad

2025-04-17 | Redmond, WA, US | Seattle Rust User Group

April, 2025 SRUG (Seattle Rust User Group) Meetup

2025-04-23 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX

Rust Lunch - Fareground

2025-04-25 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Ball Square Rust Lunch, Apr 25

Oceania

2025-04-09 | Sydney, NS, AU | Rust Sydney

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Christchurch Rust Meetup

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April Meetup

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If you write a bug in your Rust program, Rust doesn’t blame you. Rust asks “how could the compiler have spotted that bug”.

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[xgi-wave]

DeepSeek complete explained: Everything you need to know 2025

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI firm, is shaking up the industry with its low-cost, open-source large language models, posing a serious challenge to U.S. tech giants.

Breaking the AI Norms

For years, the belief was that developing powerful large language models required massive funding and cutting-edge technology. That’s why the U.S. government pledged to back the $500 billion Stargate Project, announced by President Donald Trump.

But DeepSeek has flipped that idea on its head. On January 20, 2025, the Chinese AI firm stunned the world by releasing its R1 large language model (LLM) at a fraction of the cost of its competitors. What made it even more disruptive? DeepSeek offered its R1 models under an open-source license, making them freely available to the public.

Within days, DeepSeek’s AI assistant—an easy-to-use chatbot app powered by R1—shot to the top of Apple’s App Store, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT in downloads. The ripple effect was immediate: On January 27, 2025, stock markets took a hit as investors started doubting the long-term dominance of U.S.-based AI companies. Tech giants like Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and Broadcom saw their stock values plummet as the world took notice of DeepSeek’s rapid rise.

What is DeepSeek?

DeepSeek is an AI research company based in Hangzhou, China. It was founded in May 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, a graduate of Zhejiang University and co-founder of High-Flyer, a quantitative hedge fund that owns DeepSeek. While the company’s funding and valuation remain undisclosed, its impact on the AI landscape is undeniable.

DeepSeek is committed to developing open-source LLMs. Its first model debuted in November 2023, but it wasn’t until January 2025—with the release of the groundbreaking R1 reasoning model—that the company gained worldwide recognition.

The company offers multiple access points for its AI models, including a web platform, a mobile app, and an API for developers.

Read full details

[ogma-conceptions]

Why Should You Do Web Scraping for python

Web scraping is a valuable skill for Python developers, offering numerous benefits and applications. Here’s why you should consider learning and using web scraping with Python:

1. Automate Data Collection

Web scraping allows you to automate the tedious task of manually collecting data from websites. This can save significant time and effort when dealing with large amounts of data.

2. Gain Access to Real-World Data

Most real-world data exists on websites, often in formats that are not readily available for analysis (e.g., displayed in tables or charts). Web scraping helps extract this data for use in projects like:

Data analysis

Machine learning models

Business intelligence

3. Competitive Edge in Business

Businesses often need to gather insights about:

Competitor pricing

Market trends

Customer reviews Web scraping can help automate these tasks, providing timely and actionable insights.

4. Versatility and Scalability

Python’s ecosystem offers a range of tools and libraries that make web scraping highly adaptable:

BeautifulSoup: For simple HTML parsing.

Scrapy: For building scalable scraping solutions.

Selenium: For handling dynamic, JavaScript-rendered content. This versatility allows you to scrape a wide variety of websites, from static pages to complex web applications.

5. Academic and Research Applications

Researchers can use web scraping to gather datasets from online sources, such as:

Social media platforms

News websites

Scientific publications

This facilitates research in areas like sentiment analysis, trend tracking, and bibliometric studies.

6. Enhance Your Python Skills

Learning web scraping deepens your understanding of Python and related concepts:

HTML and web structures

Data cleaning and processing

API integration

Error handling and debugging

These skills are transferable to other domains, such as data engineering and backend development.

7. Open Opportunities in Data Science

Many data science and machine learning projects require datasets that are not readily available in public repositories. Web scraping empowers you to create custom datasets tailored to specific problems.

8. Real-World Problem Solving

Web scraping enables you to solve real-world problems, such as:

Aggregating product prices for an e-commerce platform.

Monitoring stock market data in real-time.

Collecting job postings to analyze industry demand.

9. Low Barrier to Entry

Python's libraries make web scraping relatively easy to learn. Even beginners can quickly build effective scrapers, making it an excellent entry point into programming or data science.

10. Cost-Effective Data Gathering

Instead of purchasing expensive data services, web scraping allows you to gather the exact data you need at little to no cost, apart from the time and computational resources.

11. Creative Use Cases

Web scraping supports creative projects like:

Building a news aggregator.

Monitoring trends on social media.

Creating a chatbot with up-to-date information.

Caution

While web scraping offers many benefits, it’s essential to use it ethically and responsibly:

Respect websites' terms of service and robots.txt.

Avoid overloading servers with excessive requests.

Ensure compliance with data privacy laws like GDPR or CCPA.

If you'd like guidance on getting started or exploring specific use cases, let me know!

[frog707]

Loving Travis

For most of my open-source software projects, I use the Actions platform built into GitHub for CI (continuous integration). GitHub Actions provides virtual machines to run workflows, so I don't have to administer build environments for Linux, MacOS, Windows, and so on. It's modern, convenient (if you use GitHub instead of, say, GitLab), fairly reliable, and (best of all) free (for public repos).

For me, the main limitation of Actions is that all their hosted runners use the x64 architecture. Sometimes I want to build and/or test on Arm CPUs---for instance my Libbulletjme project, which has a bunch of platform-sensitive C++ code.

For Libbulletjme, I still depend on the older TravisCI platform, run by a private firm in Berlin. In addition to a huge selection of build environments based on AMD CPUs, Travis also provides Arm-based Linux environments. (Officially, they're a "beta-stage" feature, but they've been in beta for years.) Like Actions, Travis is also free to open-source projects, though their notion of "open-source" seems a bit stricter than GitHub's.

I mention Travis because my experiments with the Vulkan API exposed a limitation in Libbulletjme, which led me to begin work on a new release of Libbulletjme, which led me to discover an issue with Travis's Arm-based build environments. A recent change to these environments caused all my Arm-based builds to fail. I could only go a bit further with Vulkan before I would have to make hard choices about how to work around the limitations of Libbulletjme v18.5.0 .

At 20:09 hours UTC yesterday (a Sunday), I e-mailed TravisCI customer support and explained my issue. At 12:25 hours UTC today, Travis announced a hotfix to solve my issue. That's pretty good turnaround, for a non-paying customer having issues with a "beta-stage" feature on a summer weekend.

Bottom line: I still love Travis. <3

[gradsireninc]

How To Get An Online Internship In the IT Sector (Skills And Tips)

Internships provide invaluable opportunities to gain practical skills, build professional networks, and get your foot in the door with top tech companies.

With remote tech internships exploding in IT, online internships are now more accessible than ever. Whether a college student or career changer seeking hands-on IT experience, virtual internships allow you to work from anywhere.

However, competition can be fierce, and simply applying is often insufficient. Follow this comprehensive guide to develop the right technical abilities.

After reading this, you can effectively showcase your potential, and maximize your chances of securing a remote tech internship.

Understand In-Demand IT Skills

The first step is gaining a solid grasp of the most in-demand technical and soft skills. While specific requirements vary by company and role, these competencies form a strong foundation:

Technical Skills:

Proficiency in programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Java, and C++

Experience with front-end frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js

Back-end development skills - APIs, microservices, SQL databases Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

IT infrastructure skills - servers, networks, security

Data science abilities like SQL, R, Python

Web development and design

Mobile app development - Android, iOS, hybrid

Soft Skills:

Communication and collaboration

Analytical thinking and problem-solving

Leadership and teamwork

Creativity and innovation

Fast learning ability

Detail and deadline-oriented

Flexibility and adaptability

Obtain Relevant Credentials

While hands-on skills hold more weight, relevant academic credentials and professional IT certifications can strengthen your profile. Consider pursuing:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related engineering fields

Internship-specific courses teaching technical and soft skills

Certificates like CompTIA, AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Google, etc.

Accredited boot camp programs focusing on applied skills

MOOCs to build expertise in trending technologies like AI/ML, cybersecurity

Open source contributions on GitHub to demonstrate coding skills

The right credentials display a work ethic and supplement practical abilities gained through projects.

Build An Impressive Project Portfolio

Nothing showcases skills better than real-world examples of your work. Develop a portfolio of strong coding, design, and analytical projects related to your target internship field.

Mobile apps - publish on app stores or use GitHub project pages

Websites - deploy online via hosting services

Data science - showcase Jupyter notebooks, visualizations

Open source code - contribute to public projects on GitHub

Technical writing - blog posts explaining key concepts

Automation and scripts - record demo videos

Choose projects demonstrating both breadth and depth. Align them to skills required for your desired internship roles.

Master Technical Interview Skills

IT internship interviews often include challenging technical questions and assessments. Be prepared to:

Explain your code and projects clearly. Review them beforehand.

Discuss concepts related to key technologies on your resume. Ramp up on fundamentals.

Solve coding challenges focused on algorithms, data structures, etc. Practice online judges like LeetCode.

Address system design and analytical problems. Read case interview guides.

Show communication and collaboration skills through pair programming tests.

Ask smart, well-researched questions about the company’s tech stack, projects, etc.

Schedule dedicated time for technical interview practice daily. Learn to think aloud while coding and get feedback from peers.

Show Passion and Curiosity

Beyond raw skills, demonstrating genuine passion and curiosity for technology goes a long way.

Take online courses and certifications beyond the college curriculum

Build side projects and engage in hackathons for self-learning

Stay updated on industry news, trends, and innovations

Be active on forums like StackOverflow to exchange knowledge

Attend tech events and conferences

Participate in groups like coding clubs and prior internship programs

Follow tech leaders on social mediaListen to tech podcasts while commuting

Show interest in the company’s mission, products, and culture

This passion shines through in interviews and applications, distinguishing you from other candidates.

Promote Your Personal Brand

In the digital age, your online presence and personal brand are make-or-break. Craft a strong brand image across:

LinkedIn profile - showcase achievements, skills, recommendations

GitHub - displays coding activity and quality through clean repositories

Portfolio website - highlight projects and share valuable content

Social media - post career updates and useful insights, but avoid oversharing

Blogs/videos - demonstrate communication abilities and thought leadership

Online communities - actively engage and build relationships

Ensure your profiles are professional and consistent. Let your technical abilities and potential speak for themselves.

Optimize Your Internship Applications

Applying isn’t enough. You must optimize your internship applications to get a reply:

Ensure you apply to openings that strongly match your profile Customize your resume and cover letters using keywords in the job description

Speak to skills gained from coursework, online learning, and personal projects

Quantify achievements rather than just listing responsibilities

Emphasize passion for technology and fast learning abilities

Ask insightful questions that show business understanding

Follow up respectfully if you don’t hear back in 1-2 weeks

Show interest in full-time conversion early and often

Apply early since competitive openings close quickly

Leverage referrals from your network if possible

This is how you do apply meaningfully. If you want a good internship, focus on the quality of applications. The hard work will pay off.

Succeed in Your Remote Internship

The hard work pays off when you secure that long-awaited internship! Continue standing out through the actual internship by:

Over Communicating in remote settings - proactively collaborate

Asking smart questions and owning your learning

Finding mentors and building connections remotely

Absorbing constructive criticism with maturity

Shipping quality work on or before deadlines

Clarifying expectations frequently

Going above and beyond prescribed responsibilities sometimes

Getting regular feedback and asking for more work

Leaving with letters of recommendation and job referrals

When you follow these tips, you are sure to succeed in your remote internship. Remember, soft skills can get you long ahead in the company, sometimes core skills can’t.

Conclusion

With careful preparation, tenacity, and a passion for technology, you will be able to get internships jobs in USA that suit your needs in the thriving IT sector.

Use this guide to build the right skills, create an impressive personal brand, ace the applications, and excel in your internship.

Additionally, you can browse some good job portals. For instance, GrandSiren can help you get remote tech internships. The portal has the best internship jobs in India and USA you’ll find. The investment will pay dividends throughout your career in this digital age. Wishing you the best of luck! Let me know in the comments about your internship hunt journey.

[gradsiren]

How To Get An Online Internship In the IT Sector (Skills And Tips)

Internships provide invaluable opportunities to gain practical skills, build professional networks, and get your foot in the door with top tech companies.

With remote tech internships exploding in IT, online internships are now more accessible than ever. Whether a college student or career changer seeking hands-on IT experience, virtual internships allow you to work from anywhere.

However, competition can be fierce, and simply applying is often insufficient. Follow this comprehensive guide to develop the right technical abilities.

After reading this, you can effectively showcase your potential, and maximize your chances of securing a remote tech internship.

Understand In-Demand IT Skills

The first step is gaining a solid grasp of the most in-demand technical and soft skills. While specific requirements vary by company and role, these competencies form a strong foundation:

Technical Skills:

>> Proficiency in programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Java, and C++ >> Experience with front-end frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js >> Back-end development skills - APIs, microservices, SQL databases >> Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud >> IT infrastructure skills - servers, networks, security >> Data science abilities like SQL, R, Python >> Web development and design >> Mobile app development - Android, iOS, hybrid

Soft Skills:

>> Communication and collaboration >> Analytical thinking and problem-solving >> Leadership and teamwork >> Creativity and innovation >> Fast learning ability >> Detail and deadline-oriented >> Flexibility and adaptability

Obtain Relevant Credentials

While hands-on skills hold more weight, relevant academic credentials and professional IT certifications can strengthen your profile. Consider pursuing:

>> Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related engineering fields. >> Internship-specific courses teaching technical and soft skills. >> Certificates like CompTIA, AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Google, etc. >> Accredited boot camp programs focusing on applied skills. >> MOOCs to build expertise in trending technologies like AI/ML, cybersecurity. >> Open source contributions on GitHub to demonstrate coding skills.

The right credentials display a work ethic and supplement practical abilities gained through projects.

Build An Impressive Project Portfolio

Nothing showcases skills better than real-world examples of your work. Develop a portfolio of strong coding, design, and analytical projects related to your target internship field.

>> Mobile apps - publish on app stores or use GitHub project pages >> Websites - deploy online via hosting services >> Data science - showcase Jupyter notebooks, visualizations >> Open source code - contribute to public projects on GitHub >> Technical writing - blog posts explaining key concepts >> Automation and scripts - record demo videos

Choose projects demonstrating both breadth and depth. Align them to skills required for your desired internship roles.

Master Technical Interview Skills

IT internship interviews often include challenging technical questions and assessments. Be prepared to:

>> Explain your code and projects clearly. Review them beforehand. >> Discuss concepts related to key technologies on your resume. Ramp up on fundamentals. >> Solve coding challenges focused on algorithms, data structures, etc. Practice online judges like LeetCode. >> Address system design and analytical problems. Read case interview guides. >> Show communication and collaboration skills through pair programming tests. >> Ask smart, well-researched questions about the company’s tech stack, projects, etc.

Schedule dedicated time for technical interview practice daily. Learn to think aloud while coding and get feedback from peers.

Show Passion and Curiosity

Beyond raw skills, demonstrating genuine passion and curiosity for technology goes a long way.

>> Take online courses and certifications beyond the college curriculum >> Build side projects and engage in hackathons for self-learning >> Stay updated on industry news, trends, and innovations >> Be active on forums like StackOverflow to exchange knowledge >> Attend tech events and conferences >> Participate in groups like coding clubs and prior internship programs >> Follow tech leaders on social media >> Listen to tech podcasts while commuting >> Show interest in the company’s mission, products, and culture

This passion shines through in interviews and applications, distinguishing you from other candidates.

Promote Your Personal Brand

In the digital age, your online presence and personal brand are make-or-break. Craft a strong brand image across:

>> LinkedIn profile - showcase achievements, skills, recommendations >> GitHub - displays coding activity and quality through clean repositories >> Portfolio website - highlight projects and share valuable content >> Social media - post career updates and useful insights, but avoid oversharing >> Blogs/videos - demonstrate communication abilities and thought leadership >> Online communities - actively engage and build relationships

Ensure your profiles are professional and consistent. Let your technical abilities and potential speak for themselves.

Optimize Your Internship Applications

Applying isn’t enough. You must optimize your internship applications to get a reply:

>> Ensure you apply to openings that strongly match your profile >> Customize your resume and cover letters using keywords in the job description >> Speak to skills gained from coursework, online learning, and personal projects >> Quantify achievements rather than just listing responsibilities >> Emphasize passion for technology and fast learning abilities >> Ask insightful questions that show business understanding >> Follow up respectfully if you don’t hear back in 1-2 weeks >> Show interest in full-time conversion early and often >> Apply early since competitive openings close quickly >> Leverage referrals from your network if possible

This is how you do apply meaningfully. If you want a good internship, focus on the quality of applications. The hard work will pay off.

Succeed in Your Remote Internship

The hard work pays off when you secure that long-awaited internship! Continue standing out through the actual internship by:

>> Over Communicating in remote settings - proactively collaborate >> Asking smart questions and owning your learning >> Finding mentors and building connections remotely >> Absorbing constructive criticism with maturity >> Shipping quality work on or before deadlines >> Clarifying expectations frequently >> Going above and beyond prescribed responsibilities sometimes >> Getting regular feedback and asking for more work >> Leaving with letters of recommendation and job referrals

When you follow these tips, you are sure to succeed in your remote internship. Remember, soft skills can get you long ahead in the company, sometimes core skills can’t.

Conclusion

With careful preparation, tenacity, and a passion for technology, you will be able to get internships jobs in USA that suit your needs in the thriving IT sector.

Use this guide to build the right skills, create an impressive personal brand, ace the applications, and excel in your internship.

Additionally, you can browse some good job portals. For instance, GrandSiren can help you get remote tech internships. The portal has the best internship jobs in India and USA you’ll find.

The investment will pay dividends throughout your career in this digital age. Wishing you the best of luck! Let me know in the comments about your internship hunt journey.

[naturelove106]

Secret Leaks Are Costing Indian Companies Millions - These Two Students Built a Fix

Kolkata, India - In the last five years, India has quietly topped a global leaderboard few are proud of: the highest number of leaked API keys and access credentials on public repositories like GitHub. These seemingly small mistakes, known as secret sprawl, have cost companies millions of dollars in data breaches, downtime, and trust. But while the issue has remained largely ignored in public discourse, two college students from India have decided to do something about it.

Meet Keyshade - a lightweight, developer-first secret and configuration management tool that could change how Indian developers handle sensitive data forever.

The Problem No One Talks About

Every software product - whether a food delivery app or a bank's backend everything relies on secrets: API keys, tokens, database URIs, and credentials. Developers typically store these in .env files, hoping they stay private. But when code is pushed to GitHub, shared in Slack, or even screen-recorded for demo purposes, these secrets often leak.

This phenomenon, known as secret sprawl, is alarmingly common, especially in India, where fast-growing teams, open-source enthusiasm, and lax DevSecOps practices create a perfect storm.

The consequences can be catastrophic. In 2022, Uber suffered a massive breach when a leaked hardcoded secret in a PowerShell script gave attackers access to internal tools, codebases, and even Slack. In Toyota’s case, an access key embedded in public GitHub code remained exposed for five years, compromising customer data from over 2 million vehicles. Neither breach was the result of sophisticated hacking - just poor secrets management.

“In less than 30 minutes, I found over 100 exposed AWS keys just by searching public GitHub repos,” wrote Anmol, a cybersecurity researcher, in a Medium article.

According to the GitGuardian State of Secrets Sprawl Report 2025, over 23.7 million secrets were detected in public GitHub repositories in 2024, a 25% increase from the previous year. The report highlights that India ranks as the leading country in terms of exposed secrets, accounting for nearly 15% of all global incidents. This puts Indian organizations and developers at heightened risk, with leaked credentials often serving as the initial attack vector in major breaches.

The Spark

Keyshade was born out of frustration. Its two co-founders, both engineering students, kept running into the same issue on every project: managing secrets was messy, insecure, and ignored.

“We weren’t trying to build a startup,” says Rajdip Bhattacharya, CTO at Keyshade. “We just wanted to stop the chaos in our own projects like copying keys around, forgetting to rotate them, and hoping we never accidentally leak something.”

What started as an internal tool quickly gained traction in their peer circles. Open-source contributors, indie hackers, and even mid-size dev teams began asking for access.

That’s when they realized: the problem wasn’t just theirs - it was the industry’s.

How Keyshade Works

Keyshade offers a developer-friendly way to manage secrets without ever exposing them in the codebase.

No .env files

No risk of accidental commits

Secure, encrypted storage and controlled access

Seamless CLI/API integration for developers

Minimal configuration built for speed and simplicity

“We wanted something as easy as .env, but safe by default,” says the team. “No security team should be needed just to handle credentials properly.”

It’s built for developers first, not just DevOps. Unlike heavyweight solutions like Hashicorp Vault, Keyshade doesn’t require spinning up servers, managing roles, or hiring consultants to use it.

India’s Developer Boom Needs Security Basics

India is currently on track to have the largest developer population in the world by 2027. Startups are scaling fast. But the basics of secure development haven’t kept pace.

“There’s no real education around secret handling. Most engineers graduate without ever learning what secret sprawl is,” says Sawan Bhattacharya, CEO of Keyshade.

This creates a huge national risk, not just for tech startups, but for India's global tech reputation. Security-conscious investors, clients, and regulators may soon begin to ask hard questions.

By building tools like Keyshade, the founders hope to embed security into the development lifecycle itself, not as an afterthought, but as the default setting.

What’s Next

Currently in alpha, Keyshade is being tested by indie developers and open-source maintainers across India and abroad. A beta release is expected later this year, with plans for an open-source SDK and GitHub integration already underway.

They’re also preparing a “State of Secret Security in India” report, compiling live data on exposed credentials from public repos, to raise awareness and push the industry to take action.

Why This Matters

In an era of growing cyberattacks, every leak matters. A single exposed AWS key can cost a company lakhs, sometimes crores. And the worst part? Many don’t realize they’ve been breached until it’s too late.

With Keyshade, two recent college grads are trying to shift that narrative. They’re proving that good security doesn’t have to be complicated, just thoughtful.

“Secrets shouldn’t be a security risk,” they say. “They should be invisible.”

For Early Access:

Keyshade

www.keyshade.xyz contact@keyshade.com

[gfs-tanks]

Center Enamel can Provide Aluminum Dome Roofs for Leachate storage tanks

Center Enamel can Provide Aluminum Dome Roofs for  Leachate storage tanks

Containment and Compliance: Center Enamel's Aluminum Dome Roofs for Leachate Storage Tanks

Landfills and waste management facilities are critical components of modern infrastructure, handling vast quantities of municipal, industrial, and hazardous waste. A significant and challenging byproduct of these operations is leachate – a highly contaminated liquid formed when water percolates through waste, dissolving various soluble compounds. Leachate is often acidic, rich in organic matter, heavy metals, and other pollutants, posing severe environmental risks if not properly contained and treated. Leachate storage tanks are therefore indispensable, providing temporary containment before advanced treatment or off-site disposal.

However, the very nature of leachate makes its storage exceptionally challenging. Leachate is notoriously corrosive, produces strong, noxious odors, and can generate volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous gases like methane (CH4) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Open or inadequately covered leachate tanks are a primary source of severe environmental non-compliance, public health hazards, and operational inefficiencies, including significant evaporation losses and potential contamination from external factors.

This is precisely where Shijiazhuang Zhengzhong Technology Co., Ltd (Center Enamel), a global leader with over three decades of unparalleled expertise in advanced storage solutions, offers a transformative answer. Our state-of-the-art Aluminum Geodesic Dome Roofs are specifically engineered for Leachate Storage Tanks, providing the ultimate containment, safety, and longevity required for these demanding applications.

As a leading storage tank manufacturer worldwide. Center Enamel can provide Glass Lined Steel(GLS) tanks, fusion bonded epoxy tanks, stainless steel tanks, galvanized steel tanks and aluminum geodesic dome roofs, Wastewater and Biogas Project Equipments for global customers.

Configuration of Customized Storage Tanks

Storage tanks

Volume

Roofs

Application

Design Requirements

GLS Tanks

SS Tanks

Fusion Bonded Epoxy Tanks

Galvanized Steel Tanks

Welded Steel Tanks

<1000m³

1000-10000m³

10000-20000m³

20000-25000m³

>25000m³

ADR Roof

GLS Roof

Membrane Roof

FRP Roof

Trough Deck Roof

Wastewater Treatment Project

Drinking Water Project

Municipal Sewage Project

Biogas Project

Fire Water Storage Project

Oil Storage Project

Water Supply & Drainage System

Seismic Design

Wind Resistant Design

Lightning Protection Design

Tank Insulation Design

WasteWater Treatment Project Equipment Supply

Pretreatment Equipment

Resource Utilization System

Sludge Treatment System

Other Equipment

Mechanical Bar Screen

Solid-liquid Separator

Submersible Mixer

Gas Holder

Boiler System

Boost Fan

Bio

gas Generator

Torch System

Dehydration and Desulfurization Tank

PAM Integration Dosing Device

Screw Sludge Dewatering Machine

Slurry Separation Centrifuge

Sewage Pump

Mud Scraper

Submersible Sewage Pump

Three-phases Separator

The Center Enamel Advantage: Precision-Engineered for Extreme Leachate Environments

"Leachate management is one of the most challenging aspects of waste facility operations due to the highly corrosive and hazardous nature of the liquid," states a spokesperson from Center Enamel. "Our aluminum dome roofs are designed to excel in these extreme conditions. They are not merely covers; they are meticulously engineered systems that provide a hermetic, corrosion-resistant, and gas-tight seal, crucial for environmental protection and operational safety. Leveraging our extensive experience and adherence to stringent international standards like AWWA D108, API 650, ADM 2015, ASCE 7-10, and IBC 2012, we ensure every dome roof delivers unmatched performance and reliability."

Why Aluminum is the Optimal Choice for Leachate Storage Tank Roofs:

Center Enamel's choice of aluminum for leachate tank roofs is driven by its inherent advantages, particularly vital for containing this aggressive liquid:

Exceptional Corrosion Resistance: Leachate is highly corrosive due to its complex chemical composition, often containing high concentrations of chlorides, sulfates, heavy metals, and organic acids, and releasing corrosive gases like H2S. Aluminum naturally forms a passive, tenacious oxide layer that provides superior and lasting resistance to a wide range of these highly aggressive corrosive agents. This non-corrosive property eliminates the risk of rust and material degradation that plagues traditional steel roofs, ensuring the long-term structural integrity of the roof without the need for constant painting or costly coatings.

Lightweight, High Strength-to-Weight Ratio: Aluminum's impressive strength-to-weight ratio allows for the construction of large, clear-span geodesic dome structures that do not require internal columns or extensive external supports. This significantly reduces the load on the tank walls and foundation, simplifying design and construction, and often leading to substantial cost efficiencies in both materials and labor. Its lightweight nature also facilitates easier transportation and significantly accelerates on-site installation, minimizing disruption to critical waste management operations.

Durability and Longevity: Engineered for resilience in harsh conditions, Center Enamel's aluminum dome roofs are built to provide decades of reliable service. Their robust construction enables them to withstand severe environmental stresses, including heavy wind loads (up to 150 mph), extreme snow loads (critical for facilities in colder climates), and seismic activity, ensuring continuous protection without structural fatigue.

Minimal Maintenance Requirements: Thanks to its innate corrosion resistance and robust, low-stress design, Center Enamel's aluminum dome roofs are virtually maintenance-free. This translates into significant long-term savings on labor and materials, reducing operational expenses and ensuring consistent, uninterrupted functionality, which is invaluable for continuous waste management.

Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility: As a highly recyclable material, aluminum aligns perfectly with the growing demand for eco-friendly and sustainable practices within the waste management industry. Choosing aluminum dome roofs contributes to reduced greenhouse gas emissions (by containing methane) and a smaller environmental footprint, helping organizations meet their environmental compliance goals and promote responsible waste handling.

The Geodesic Dome Design: The Superior Enclosure for Leachate Containment

The geodesic dome structure offers unique engineering advantages perfectly suited for leachate storage tanks:

Self-Supporting Clear Span: The clear-span capability of the geodesic dome eliminates the need for internal support columns or beams within the tank. This maximizes the internal storage volume and, crucially, simplifies access for inspection, cleaning, and the operation/maintenance of internal components often present in leachate tanks (e.g., pumps, mixers), without physical obstructions. This also prevents accumulation points for sludge or debris.

Superior Sealing for Odor and Gas Control: Center Enamel's precision-engineered panels and advanced sealing systems ensure a robust, gas-tight, and liquid-tight enclosure. This is paramount for leachate tanks to effectively contain strong, noxious odors and hazardous gases like H2S, VOCs, and methane, drastically reducing community complaints and ensuring compliance with stringent air quality regulations. This hermetic seal also facilitates the potential for efficient collection and treatment of biogas.

Efficient Water Run-off: The natural curvature of the dome prevents rainwater, snow, or debris from accumulating on the roof surface. This ensures clean aesthetics, eliminates standing water weight, and significantly minimizes the potential for external water to dilute or overflow the highly contaminated leachate

Exceptional Strength and Load Distribution: The interconnected triangular elements of the geodesic dome efficiently distribute external loads across the entire structure, providing extraordinary resistance to various forces. This inherent strength is crucial for the continuous and reliable protection of leachate, minimizing risks of structural fatigue or failure.

Transformative Benefits for Leachate Management Facilities:

Implementing Center Enamel's aluminum dome roofs for leachate storage tanks yields a comprehensive array of benefits:

Unparalleled Odor and Emission Control: Effectively captures and contains all noxious odors and hazardous gases, significantly improving air quality for surrounding communities and plant personnel, and ensuring compliance with tightening environmental regulations.

Enhanced Safety and Risk Mitigation: Prevents the escape of hazardous and potentially flammable gases (like methane), reducing risks of explosion, asphyxiation, and public exposure. It also provides a safe, anti-slip working platform for personnel.

Contamination Prevention: Forms an impenetrable barrier against airborne debris, rainfall, and other environmental contaminants, protecting the leachate from external dilution or foreign material introduction.

Reduced Evaporation Losses: Minimizes the loss of water and volatile components from the leachate, which can be crucial for maintaining its concentration for subsequent treatment and reducing costs associated with replenishment or specific treatment processes.

Lower Lifetime Maintenance Costs: The inherent corrosion resistance and robust design of aluminum eliminate the need for frequent painting or repairs, significantly reducing operational expenses and ensuring a long, reliable service life for the roof in highly aggressive leachate environments.

Extended Asset Lifespan: By protecting the underlying tank structure from direct exposure to corrosive leachate vapors and external elements, the aluminum dome roof significantly extends the overall lifespan of the leachate storage tank, safeguarding a critical infrastructure investment.

Rapid and Efficient Installation: Modular design and proprietary installation methods allow for quick and safe on-site assembly, minimizing disruption to essential waste management operations and accelerating project completion.

Center Enamel: Your Global Partner in Responsible Waste Management

Center Enamel is more than just a tank cover provider; we are a dedicated partner committed to advancing global waste management practices and environmental protection. With over 10,000 successful tank and roof projects completed across more than 100 countries, our global presence and proven expertise stand as a testament to our capabilities. Our comprehensive service includes initial consultation, bespoke engineering design, precision fabrication in state-of-the-art facilities located in Shijiazhuang, and professional installation guidance.

By choosing a Center Enamel aluminum dome roof for your leachate storage tanks, you are making a strategic investment that guarantees superior environmental performance, enhanced safety, improved operational efficiency, and significantly extended asset lifespan. This ultimately contributes to a more sustainable, compliant, and responsible approach to waste management.

Contact Center Enamel today to learn how our advanced aluminum dome roofs can elevate the performance, safety, and sustainability of your leachate containment infrastructure.

[whitefoxyh]

Navigating Modern Healthcare Integration with Effective FHIR Solutions

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital healthcare, two elements stand out as critical for interoperability and data exchange: fhir implementation consulting and access to a reliable fhir public test server. As healthcare systems increasingly rely on standardized data sharing, organizations that want to modernize their systems and processes must embrace Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards effectively. The path to doing this successfully often starts with trusted expertise and the right testing environment.

To begin with, fhir implementation consulting plays a vital role in helping healthcare providers, health tech companies, and insurance networks move from outdated legacy systems to robust, FHIR-compliant solutions. The demand for seamless health information exchange continues to grow, driven by regulatory requirements and patient expectations for accessible health records. Yet, transforming vast amounts of health data into FHIR standards is far from simple. This is where experienced consultants make a difference — they assess current systems, identify data silos, design customized FHIR architectures, and ensure that integration aligns with national and international health IT standards.

Alongside expert guidance, a dependable fhir public test server is an equally important piece of the puzzle. Before any live deployment, developers and IT teams must verify that their FHIR APIs, apps, and data models work as intended. A good public test server provides a safe sandbox to test queries, simulate real-world scenarios, and troubleshoot issues without risking sensitive patient data. It serves as a collaborative playground where developers, vendors, and health organizations can experiment freely and ensure their solutions meet FHIR specifications.

The synergy of expert consulting and open testing infrastructure is what makes successful FHIR adoption achievable. Without the insights that a specialized fhir implementation consulting team offers, organizations may encounter project delays, compliance risks, or integration failures. Similarly, without access to a secure fhir public test server, even the best implementation plans can fall short when it comes to validating real-time functionality.

For many organizations, the journey starts with a gap analysis. Consultants evaluate the existing IT environment and determine what’s needed to bridge the gap to FHIR readiness. From mapping patient data to defining resource profiles and ensuring data privacy, these initial steps demand precise planning. Consultants also offer training and knowledge transfer, so in-house teams can manage and maintain FHIR-based systems with confidence long after implementation is complete.

Meanwhile, developers who are building healthcare apps benefit greatly from a robust test server. Whether creating patient portals, mobile health apps, or data exchange platforms for hospitals, they can simulate thousands of transactions and stress-test their solutions. This pre-launch phase helps catch bugs and interoperability issues early, saving valuable time and costs later.

Beyond technical testing, a fhir public test server also fosters community innovation. It gives startups, researchers, and students a real-world platform to learn and experiment. Open-source development and collaboration drive advancements in health tech, making care delivery more efficient and data more accessible for patients and providers alike.

While the promise of FHIR is clear, the reality is that successful adoption requires careful planning and execution. Organizations must comply with data governance laws, protect patient privacy, and ensure system scalability as patient volumes grow. This is why an experienced partner is invaluable. They provide a roadmap, anticipate challenges, and adapt solutions to each organization’s unique needs.

Ultimately, the adoption of FHIR standards is transforming how healthcare data flows between hospitals, labs, insurers, and patients. With trusted fhir implementation consulting and a reliable fhir public test server, health systems can modernize legacy infrastructures and deliver better digital health services. This means fewer data silos, faster patient record sharing, and more informed clinical decisions at every level of care.

For any organization looking to stay ahead in the digital health revolution, it’s worth investing in these foundational elements today to build a more connected and patient-centered future tomorrow. By leveraging proven expertise and testing tools, healthcare innovators can confidently unlock the full potential of FHIR and make true interoperability a reality.

[this-week-in-rust]

This Week in Rust 574

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on X (formerly Twitter) or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

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Updates from Rust Community

Official

Announcing four new members of the compiler team

Foundation

Announcing the Rust Foundation’s Newest Project Director: Carol Nichols

Rust Foundation Collaborates With AWS Initiative to Verify Rust Standard Libraries

EuroRust 2024

Through the Fire and the Flames - Jon Gjengset

Build bigger in less time: code testing beyond the basics - Predrag Gruevski

A gentle introduction to procedural macros - Sam Van Overmeire

Practical Rust for Web Audio - Attila Haraszti

Augmented docs: a love letter to rustdoc and docs.rs - Francois Mockers

The Impact of Memory Allocators on Performance: A Deep Dive - Arthur Pastel

Proving macro expansion with expandable - Sasha Pourcelot

Runtime Scripting for Rust Applications - Niklas Korz

Unleashing 🦀 The Ferris Within - Victor Ciura

The first six years in the development of Polonius - Amanda Stjerna

Non-binary Rust: Between Safe and Unsafe - Boxy Uwu

Writing a SD Card driver in Rust - Johnathan Pallant

My Journey from WebDev to Medical Visualization Rustacean - David Peherstorfer

Code to contract to code: making ironclad APIs - Adam Chalmers

Rust Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann - Henk Oordt

Linting with Dylint - Samuel Moelius

RustConf 2024

Dr. Rebecca Rumbul (Rust Foundation Executive Director): "Welcome Remarks"

Aeva Black: "Making Open Source Secure by Design" | KEYNOTE

Marc-André Moreau (CTO, Devolutions): Diamond Sponsor Talk

Nick Cameron: "Eternal Sunshine of the Rustfmt'ed Mind"

Jack Wrenn: "Safety Goggles for Alchemists"

Rohit Dandamundi: "Widening the Ferris Net"

Isabel Atkinson: "Rustify Your API: A Journey from Specification to Implementation"

Sparrow Li: "The Current State and Future of Rust Compiler Performance"

Nathan Stocks: "Shooting Stars! Livecode a Game in Less Than 30 Mins"

Pedro Rittner & Sean Lawlor: "Actors and Factories in Rust"

David Koloski: "The (Many) Mistakes I Made in rkyv"

Kyler Chin: "How We Built a Rust-y Real-Time Public Transport Map"

Adam Chalmers: "Making a Programming Language for 3D Design"

Martin Pool: "Finding Bugs with cargo-mutants"

1Password, Adobe, Woven by Toyota: Gold Sponsor Lightning Talks

Miguel Ojeda (Rust for Linux): KEYNOTE

JetBrains, K2 Space, Zed: Gold Sponsor Lightning Talks

Jonathan Pallant: "Six Clock Cycle per Pixel - Graphics on the Neotrol Pico"

Joannah Nanjekye: "Rust Interop: Memory Safety Across Foreign Function Boundaries"

Jacob Pratt: "Compiler-Driven Development: Making Rust Work for You"

Angus Morrison: "How Rust is Powering Next-Generation Space Mission Simulators"

Michael Gattozzi: "What Happens When You Run Cargo Build?"

Pallavi Thukral: "Rust in Motion: Building Reliable and Performant Robotics Systems"

Marc-André Giroux: "Low-Overhead Observability in High-RPS Servers"

Predrag Gruevski: "Putting an End to Accidental SemVer-Breaking Changes"

Chris Biscardi: "Web Sites, Web Apps, and Web Assembly"

Nicholas Matsakis (Co-Lead, Rust Design Team): "Rust Roadmap 2.0" | KEYNOTE

Frédéric Ameye: "Rust in Legacy Regulated Industries"

Walter Pearce: "Dude, Where's My C?"

Ed Jones: "Fearless Refactoring & the Art of Argument-Free Rust"

Dr. Rebecca Rambul: Opening Remarks

OxidOS Sponsored Talk

Martin Geisler: "Rust Training at Scale"

Quanyi Ma: "Embracing Monorepo and LLM Evolution"

Joshua Liebow-Feeser: "Safety in an Unsafe World"

Jack Huey & James Munns: "An Outsider's Guide to the Rust Project"

Newsletters

This Month in Rust OSDev: October 2024

Project/Tooling Updates

hyper in curl Needs a Champion

godot-rust November 2024 dev update

Security in hickory-dns

Virtual Geometry in Bevy 0.15

Glues v0.5 - Editor Tabs and Enhanced Vim Commands

Streaming data analytics, Fluvio 0.13.0 release

Rerun 0.20 - Geospatial data and full H.264 support

git-cliff 2.7.0 is released! (a highly customizable changelog generator)

Observations/Thoughts

You don't (always) need async

The fastest WASM zlib

A rustc soundness bug in the wild

[audio] Compile Time Crimes

[audio] Oxide with Steve Klabnik

Rust Walkthroughs

Zed Rope Optimizations, Part 1

Futexes at Home

Build your own SQLite, Part 3: SQL parsing 101

dtype_dispatch: a most beautiful hack

Sending Events to Bevy from anywhere

Building an email address parser in Rust with nom

Exploring Async Runtimes by Building our Own

Traits to Unify all Vectors

Basics of Pinning in Rust

Building a Wifi-controlled car with Rust and ESP32

[video] Build with Naz : Diesel ORM, SQLite and Rust

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is fixed-slice-vec, a no-std dynamic length Vec with runtime-determined maximum capacity backed by a slice.

Thanks to Jay Oster for the suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Calls for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

RFCs

No calls for testing were issued this week.

Testing Steps

Rust

No calls for testing were issued this week.

Testing steps

Rustup

No calls for testing were issued this week.

Testing steps

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here or through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

CFP - Events

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the website through a PR to TWiR or by reaching out on X (formerly Twitter) or Mastodon!

Updates from the Rust Project

480 pull requests were merged in the last week

ABI checks: add support for some tier3 arches, warn on others

ABI checks: add support for tier2 arches

CFI: append debug location to CFI blocks

AIX: Add crate "unwind" to link with libunwind

illumos: use pipe2 to create anonymous pipes

check_consts: fix error requesting feature gate when that gate is not actually needed

const_panic: inline in bootstrap builds to avoid f16/f128 crashes

rustc_metadata: Preprocess search paths for better performance

suggest_borrow_generic_arg: instantiate clauses properly

add visit_coroutine_kind to ast::Visitor

add parentheses when unboxing suggestion needed

add reference annotations for diagnostic attributes

allow CFGuard on windows-gnullvm

always inline functions signatures containing f16 or f128

borrowck diagnostics: suggest borrowing function inputs in generic positions

change Visitor::visit_precise_capturing_arg so it returns a Visitor::Result

change intrinsic declarations to new style

check use<..> in RPITIT for refinement

consolidate type system const evaluation under traits::evaluate_const

delete the cfg(not(parallel)) serial compiler

deny capturing late-bound ty/const params in nested opaques

diagnostics for let mut in item context

extend the "if-unchanged" logic for compiler builds

feature gate yield expressions not in 2024

fix ICE when passing DefId-creating args to legacy_const_generics

fix REGISTRY_USERNAME to reuse cache between auto and pr jobs

fix a copy-paste issue in the NuttX raw type definition

fix compilation error on Solaris due to flock usage

fix span edition for 2024 RPIT coming from an external macro

for expr return (_ = 42); unused_paren lint should not be triggered

handle infer vars in anon consts on stable

improve VecCache under parallel frontend

increase accuracy of if condition misparse suggestion

liberate aarch64-gnu-debug from the shackles of --test-args=clang

likely unlikely fix

make precise capturing suggestion machine-applicable only if it has no APITs

make sure to ignore elided lifetimes when pointing at args for fulfillment errors

mention both release and edition breakage for never type lints

move all mono-time checks into their own folder, and their own query

proper support for cross-crate recursive const stability checks

querify MonoItem collection

recurse into APITs in impl_trait_overcaptures

refactor configure_annotatable

remove attributes from generics in built-in derive macros

rename rustc_const_stable_intrinsic → rustc_intrinsic_const_stable_indirect

skip locking span interner for some syntax context checks

trim extra space when suggesting removing bad let

trim whitespace in RemoveLet primary span

tweak attributes for const panic macro

unify FnKind between AST visitors and make WalkItemKind more straight forward

use TypingMode throughout the compiler instead of ParamEnv

warn about invalid mir-enable-passes pass names

miri: implement blocking eventfd

miri: refactor: refine thread variant for windows

miri: renamed this to ecx in extern_static

miri: use -Zroot-dir instead of --remap-path-prefix for diagnostic dir handling

stabilize const_atomic_from_ptr

stabilize const_option_ext

stabilize const_ptr_is_null

stabilize const_unicode_case_lookup

vectorize slice::is_sorted

#[inline] integer parsing functions

add as_slice/into_slice for IoSlice/IoSliceMut

generalize NonNull::from_raw_parts per ACP362

rwlock downgrade

implement mixed_integer_ops_unsigned_sub

improve codegen of fmt_num to delete unreachable panic

float types: move copysign, abs, signum to libcore

make CloneToUninit dyn-compatible

mark is_val_statically_known intrinsic as stably const-callable

optimize char::to_digit and assert radix is at least 2

hashbrown: further sequester Group/Tag code

hashbrown: mark const fn constructors as rustc_const_stable_indirect

codegen_gcc: fix volatile loads and stores

cargo resolver: Stabilize resolver v3

cargo rustdoc: diplay env vars in extra verbose mode

cargo fix: error context for git_fetch refspec not found

cargo: always include Cargo.lock in published crates

cargo: migrate build-rs to the Cargo repo

cargo: simplify English used in guide

rustdoc search: allow queries to end in an empty path segment

rustdoc-search: case-sensitive only when capitals are used

rustdoc-search: use smart binary search in bitmaps

rustdoc: treat declarative macros more like other item kinds

rustdoc: use a trie for name-based search

rustdoc: Fix duplicated footnote IDs

rustdoc: Fix handling of footnote reference in footnote definition

rustdoc: Fix items with generics not having their jump to def link generated

rustdoc: Perform less work when cleaning middle::ty parenthesized generic args

clippy: missing_safety_doc accept uppercase "SAFETY"

clippy: allow conditional Send futures in future_not_send

clippy: do not trigger if_let_mutex starting from Edition 2024

clippy: don't lint CStr literals, do lint float literals in redundant_guards

clippy: handle Option::map_or(true, …) in unnecessary_map_or lint

clippy: new lint: unnecessary_map_or

clippy: support user format-like macros

rust-analyzer: migrate reorder_fields assist to use SyntaxFactory

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

We saw improvements to a large swath of benchmarks with the querification of MonoItem collection (PR #132566). There were also some PRs where we are willing to pay a compile-time cost for expected runtime benefit (PR #132870, PR #120370), or pay a small cost in the single-threaded case in exchange for a big parallel compilation win (PR #124780).

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: d4822c2d..7d40450b

2 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 10 Mixed; 6 of them in rollups 47 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

[RFC] Thread spawn hook (inheriting thread locals)

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

No RFCs were approved this week.

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

[disposition: merge] Always display first line of impl blocks even when collapsed

[disposition: merge] Stabilize async closures (RFC 3668)

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for fn const BuildHasherDefault::new()

[disposition: merge] Add AsyncFn* to to the prelude in all editions

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for #![feature(const_float_methods)]

Cargo

[disposition: merge] Add future-incompat warning against keywords in cfgs and add raw-idents

Language Team

[disposition: merge] Consensus check: let-chains and is are not mutually exclusive

Language Reference

No Language Reference RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Unsafe Code Guidelines

No Unsafe Code Guideline Tracking Issues or PRs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

[new] Hierarchy of Sized traits

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2024-11-20 - 2024-12-18 🦀

Virtual

2024-11-20 | Virtual (Cardiff, UK) | Rust and C++ Cardiff

Rust for Rustaceans Book Club: Chapter 12: Rust Without the Standard Library

2024-11-20 | Virtual and In-Person (Vancouver, BC, CA) | Vancouver Rust

Embedded Rust Workshop

2024-11-21 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn Meetup

2024-11-21 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Trustworthy IoT with Rust--and passwords!

2024-11-21 | Virtual (Rotterdam, NL) | Bevy Game Development

Bevy Meetup #7

2024-11-25 | Virtual (Bratislava, SK) | Bratislava Rust Meetup Group

ONLINE Talk, sponsored by Sonalake - Bratislava Rust Meetup

2024-11-26 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust

Last Tuesday

2024-11-28 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

2024-11-28 | Virtual (Nürnberg, DE) | Rust Nuremberg

Rust Nürnberg online

2024-12-03 | Virtual (Buffalo, NY, US) | Buffalo Rust Meetup

Buffalo Rust User Group

2024-12-04 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust

Indy.rs - with Social Distancing

2024-12-05 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn Meetup

2024-12-07 | Virtual (Kampala, UG) | Rust Circle Kampala

Rust Circle Meetup

2024-12-10 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust

Second Tuesday

2024-12-11 | Virtual (Vancouver, BC, CA) | Vancouver Rust

Rust Study/Hack/Hang-out

2024-12-12 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

2024-12-12 | Virtual (Nürnberg, DE) | Rust Nuremberg

Rust Nürnberg online

2024-12-17 | Virtual (Washington, DC, US) | Rust DC

Mid-month Rustful

Africa

2024-12-10 | Johannesburg, ZA | Johannesburg Rust Meetup

Hello World... again

2024-12-07 | Virtual( Kampala, UG) | Rust Circle Kampala

Rust Circle Meetup

Asia

2024-11-21 | Seoul, KR | Rust Programming Meetup Seoul

Seoul Rust Meetup

2024-11-28 | Bangalore/Bengaluru, IN | Rust Bangalore

RustTechX Summit 2024 BOSCH

2024-11-30 | Tokyo, JP | Rust Tokyo

Rust.Tokyo 2024

Europe

2024-11-20 | Paris, FR | Rust Paris

Rust meetup #72

2024-11-21 | Copenhagen, DK | Copenhagen Rust Community

Rust meetup #53 sponsored by Microsoft

2024-11-21 | Edinburgh, UK | Rust and Friends

Rust and Friends (pub)

2024-11-21 | Madrid, ES | MadRust

Taller de introducción a unit testing en Rust

2024-11-21 | Oslo, NO | Rust Oslo

Rust Hack'n'Learn at Kampen Bistro

2024-11-23 | Basel, CH | Rust Basel

Rust + HTMX - Workshop #3

2024-11-25 | Zagreb, HR | impl Zagreb for Rust

Rust Meetup 2024/11: Panel diskusija - Usvajanje Rusta i iskustva iz industrije

2024-11-26 | Warsaw, PL | Rust Warsaw

New Rust Warsaw Meetup #3

2024-11-27 | Dortmund, DE | Rust Dortmund

Rust Dortmund

2024-11-28 | Aarhus, DK | Rust Aarhus

Talk Night at Lind Capital

2024-11-28 | Augsburg, DE | Rust Meetup Augsburg

Augsburg Rust Meetup #10

2024-11-28 | Berlin, DE | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust and Tell - Title

2024-11-28 | Gdansk, PL | Rust Gdansk

Rust Gdansk Meetup #5

2024-11-28 | Hamburg, DE | Rust Meetup Hamburg

Rust Hack & Learn with Mainmatter & Otto

2024-11-28 | Manchester, UK | Rust Manchester

Rust Manchester November Code Night

2024-11-28 | Prague, CZ | Rust Prague

Rust/C++ Meetup Prague (November 2024)

2024-12-03 | Copenhagen, DK | Copenhagen Rust Community

Rust Hack Night #11: Advent of Code

2024-12-04 | Oxford, UK | Oxford Rust Meetup Group

Oxford Rust and C++ social

2024-12-05 | Olomouc, CZ | Rust Moravia

Rust Moravia Meetup (December 2024)

2024-12-06 | Moscow, RU | RustCon RU

RustCon Russia

2024-12-11 | Reading, UK | Reading Rust Workshop

Reading Rust Meetup

2024-12-12 | Amsterdam, NL | Rust Developers Amsterdam Group

Rust Meetup @ JetBrains

2024-12-17 | Leipzig, DE | Rust - Modern Systems Programming in Leipzig

Types, Traits und Best Practices

North America

2024-11-21 | Chicago, IL, US | Chicago Rust Meetup

Rust Happy Hour

2024-11-23 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Boston Common Rust Lunch, Nov 23

2024-11-25 | Ferndale, MI, US | Detroit Rust

Rust Community Meetup - Ferndale

2024-11-26 | Minneapolis, MN, US | Minneapolis Rust Meetup

Minneapolis Rust Meetup Happy Hour

2024-11-27 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX

Rust Lunch - Fareground

2024-11-28 | Mountain View, CA, US | Hacker Dojo

RUST MEETUP at HACKER DOJO

2024-12-05 | St. Louis, MO, US | STL Rust

Rust Strings

2024-12-10 | Ann Arbor, MI, US | Detroit Rust

Rust Community Meetup - Ann Arbor

2024-12-12 | Mountain View, CA, US | Hacker Dojo

RUST MEETUP at HACKER DOJO

2024-12-16 | Minneapolis, MN, US | Minneapolis Rust Meetup

Minneapolis Rust Meetup Happy Hour

2024-12-17 | San Francisco, CA, US | San Francisco Rust Study Group

Rust Hacking in Person

Oceania

2024-12-04 | Sydney, AU | Rust Sydney

2024 🦀 Encore ✨ Talks

2024-12-08 | Canberra, AU | Canberra Rust User Group

CRUG Xmas party

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Please remember to add a link to the event too. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Jobs

Please see the latest Who's Hiring thread on r/rust

Quote of the Week

The whole point of Rust is that before there were two worlds:

Inefficient, garbage collected, reliable languages

Efficient, manually allocated, dangerous languages

And the mark of being a good developer in the first was mitigating the inefficiency well, and for the second it was it didn't crash, corrupt memory, or be riddled with security issues. Rust makes the trade-off instead that being good means understanding how to avoid the compiler yelling at you.

– Simon Buchan on rust-users

Thanks to binarycat for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, cdmistman, ericseppanen, extrawurst, andrewpollack, U007D, kolharsam, joelmarcey, mariannegoldin, bennyvasquez.

Email list hosting is sponsored by The Rust Foundation

Discuss on r/rust

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“Top 3 AI Websites You Must Know in 2024 (With Features & Links)”

Here are Top 3 AI websites in 2024 with details about what they offer:

1. OpenAI (https://openai.com)

Overview: OpenAI is one of the leading organizations in AI research and product development. It’s known for creating advanced AI models like ChatGPT and DALL·E.

Key Features: ✅ ChatGPT for natural language conversations ✅ DALL·E for AI-generated images ✅ API for developers to integrate AI into apps ✅ Research publications on cutting-edge AI ✅ Playground to experiment with AI models

Why Use It:

Great for exploring conversational AI, text generation, coding assistance, and image creation.

Offers both free and paid plans for different levels of access.

READ MORE

2. Google AI (https://ai.google)

Overview: Google AI focuses on applying artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems. It powers products like Google Search, Translate, and Bard (Google’s AI chatbot).

Key Features: ✅ Bard – AI-powered chatbot (now integrated into Google Search) ✅ AI research papers and resources ✅ AI tools for developers like TensorFlow and Vertex AI ✅ AI for social good projects ✅ Tutorials and learning materials

Why Use It:

Ideal for developers, researchers, and anyone interested in practical AI applications.

Extensive free learning resources and tools.

READ MORE

3. Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co)

Overview: Hugging Face is a community-driven AI platform, famous for its open-source models like Transformers for NLP, computer vision, and audio.

Key Features: ✅ Massive library of pre-trained AI models ✅ Model hub for NLP, CV, and speech tasks ✅ AI inference API ✅ Open-source tools like Transformers, Datasets, and Gradio ✅ Collaborative platform for sharing and improving AI models

Why Use It:

Best for developers and researchers working with AI models.

Completely transparent and community-focused.

Popular for building chatbots, text analysis tools, and more.

READ MORE

If you want, I can suggest AI websites specifically for: ✔ Free tools ✔ AI image generators ✔ AI coding assistance ✔ AI learning resources

FOR MORE CLICK HERE

[nschool]

The Best Open-Source Tools for Data Science in 2025

Data science in 2025 is thriving, driven by a robust ecosystem of open-source tools that empower professionals to extract insights, build predictive models, and deploy data-driven solutions at scale. This year, the landscape is more dynamic than ever, with established favorites and emerging contenders shaping how data scientists work. Here’s an in-depth look at the best open-source tools that are defining data science in 2025.

1. Python: The Universal Language of Data Science

Python remains the cornerstone of data science. Its intuitive syntax, extensive libraries, and active community make it the go-to language for everything from data wrangling to deep learning. Libraries such as NumPy and Pandas streamline numerical computations and data manipulation, while scikit-learn is the gold standard for classical machine learning tasks.

NumPy: Efficient array operations and mathematical functions.

Pandas: Powerful data structures (DataFrames) for cleaning, transforming, and analyzing structured data.

scikit-learn: Comprehensive suite for classification, regression, clustering, and model evaluation.

Python’s popularity is reflected in the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, with 53% of developers using it for data projects.

2. R and RStudio: Statistical Powerhouses

R continues to shine in academia and industries where statistical rigor is paramount. The RStudio IDE enhances productivity with features for scripting, debugging, and visualization. R’s package ecosystem—especially tidyverse for data manipulation and ggplot2 for visualization—remains unmatched for statistical analysis and custom plotting.

Shiny: Build interactive web applications directly from R.

CRAN: Over 18,000 packages for every conceivable statistical need.

R is favored by 36% of users, especially for advanced analytics and research.

3. Jupyter Notebooks and JupyterLab: Interactive Exploration

Jupyter Notebooks are indispensable for prototyping, sharing, and documenting data science workflows. They support live code (Python, R, Julia, and more), visualizations, and narrative text in a single document. JupyterLab, the next-generation interface, offers enhanced collaboration and modularity.

Over 15 million notebooks hosted as of 2025, with 80% of data analysts using them regularly.

4. Apache Spark: Big Data at Lightning Speed

As data volumes grow, Apache Spark stands out for its ability to process massive datasets rapidly, both in batch and real-time. Spark’s distributed architecture, support for SQL, machine learning (MLlib), and compatibility with Python, R, Scala, and Java make it a staple for big data analytics.

65% increase in Spark adoption since 2023, reflecting its scalability and performance.

5. TensorFlow and PyTorch: Deep Learning Titans

For machine learning and AI, TensorFlow and PyTorch dominate. Both offer flexible APIs for building and training neural networks, with strong community support and integration with cloud platforms.

TensorFlow: Preferred for production-grade models and scalability; used by over 33% of ML professionals.

PyTorch: Valued for its dynamic computation graph and ease of experimentation, especially in research settings.

6. Data Visualization: Plotly, D3.js, and Apache Superset

Effective data storytelling relies on compelling visualizations:

Plotly: Python-based, supports interactive and publication-quality charts; easy for both static and dynamic visualizations.

D3.js: JavaScript library for highly customizable, web-based visualizations; ideal for specialists seeking full control.

Apache Superset: Open-source dashboarding platform for interactive, scalable visual analytics; increasingly adopted for enterprise BI.

Tableau Public, though not fully open-source, is also popular for sharing interactive visualizations with a broad audience.

7. Pandas: The Data Wrangling Workhorse

Pandas remains the backbone of data manipulation in Python, powering up to 90% of data wrangling tasks. Its DataFrame structure simplifies complex operations, making it essential for cleaning, transforming, and analyzing large datasets.

8. Scikit-learn: Machine Learning Made Simple

scikit-learn is the default choice for classical machine learning. Its consistent API, extensive documentation, and wide range of algorithms make it ideal for tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, and model validation.

9. Apache Airflow: Workflow Orchestration

As data pipelines become more complex, Apache Airflow has emerged as the go-to tool for workflow automation and orchestration. Its user-friendly interface and scalability have driven a 35% surge in adoption among data engineers in the past year.

10. MLflow: Model Management and Experiment Tracking

MLflow streamlines the machine learning lifecycle, offering tools for experiment tracking, model packaging, and deployment. Over 60% of ML engineers use MLflow for its integration capabilities and ease of use in production environments.

11. Docker and Kubernetes: Reproducibility and Scalability

Containerization with Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes ensure that data science applications run consistently across environments. These tools are now standard for deploying models and scaling data-driven services in production.

12. Emerging Contenders: Streamlit and More

Streamlit: Rapidly build and deploy interactive data apps with minimal code, gaining popularity for internal dashboards and quick prototypes.

Redash: SQL-based visualization and dashboarding tool, ideal for teams needing quick insights from databases.

Kibana: Real-time data exploration and monitoring, especially for log analytics and anomaly detection.

Conclusion: The Open-Source Advantage in 2025

Open-source tools continue to drive innovation in data science, making advanced analytics accessible, scalable, and collaborative. Mastery of these tools is not just a technical advantage—it’s essential for staying competitive in a rapidly evolving field. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned professional, leveraging this ecosystem will unlock new possibilities and accelerate your journey from raw data to actionable insight.

The future of data science is open, and in 2025, these tools are your ticket to building smarter, faster, and more impactful solutions.