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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: UnicodeDecodeError
Message: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbc in position 88: invalid start byte
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/csv/csv.py", line 193, in _generate_tables
csv_file_reader = pd.read_csv(file, iterator=True, dtype=dtype, **self.config.pd_read_csv_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/streaming.py", line 75, in wrapper
return function(*args, download_config=download_config, **kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/utils/file_utils.py", line 1491, in xpandas_read_csv
return pd.read_csv(xopen(filepath_or_buffer, "rb", download_config=download_config), **kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1026, in read_csv
return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 620, in _read
parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1620, in __init__
self._engine = self._make_engine(f, self.engine)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1898, in _make_engine
return mapping[engine](f, **self.options)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py", line 93, in __init__
self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, **kwds)
File "parsers.pyx", line 574, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.__cinit__
File "parsers.pyx", line 663, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._get_header
File "parsers.pyx", line 874, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._tokenize_rows
File "parsers.pyx", line 891, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._check_tokenize_status
File "parsers.pyx", line 2053, in pandas._libs.parsers.raise_parser_error
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbc in position 88: invalid start byte
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Lewis Gannett | Torrance Spoor is your normal California teenager - a handsome high school athlete with strong sexual yearnings and a long-absent father. The invitation to spend some time with his dad - the Baron Malcolm Spoor - comes as a surprise. But what awaits Torrance at his father's windswept estate is far worse than he could e... | The Living One |
Theodore Dreiser | Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of Theodore Dreiser's previous work "The Financier," is now out of the Eastern District Penitentiary of Philadelphia. He still has his mistress and his fortune, plans to divorce his wife, and leaves for Chicago to scout its possibilities for a future home. He has letters... | The Titan |
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Anthony Trollope | *The Palliser Novels*, book 1: *Can You Forgive Her?*
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive hers... | Can you forgive her? |
Peter Kropotkin | **Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution** is a 1902 collection of anthropological essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. The essays, initially published in the English periodical The Nineteenth Century between 1890 and 1896, explore the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocit... | Mutual Aid |
John Dewey | "In Liberalism and Social Action, John Dewey (1859-1952), one of America's leading social philosophers, surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his search to find the core of liberalism for today's world. While liberals of all stripes have held to some very basic values - liberty,... | Liberalism and social action |
Nora Roberts | A novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana--where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house...
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Michael Connelly | He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dra... | The Closers (Harry Bosch) |
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Jacques Maritain | "Can there be universal moral principles in a culturally and religiously diverse world? Are such principles provided by a theory of natural law? Jacques response to both questions is "yes."".
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Robert Denis Pinet | This study compares the immigrant integration discourses of nine English as a Second Language (ESL) language settlement teachers in the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program in Toronto-area schools and nine French as a Second Language (FSL) language settlement teachers in the Programme d'integrati... | The discourse on immigrant integration among teachers in two settlement programs |
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William J. Rothwell | "What CEOs Expect from Corporate Training reveals at long last what executives hope to achieve when they pour considerable financial commitment into workplace learning initiatives. And while it may be no surprise that they want to tie these programs directly to corporate goals, their input on how these objectives are s... | What CEOs Expect From Corporate Training |
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Jean Cl Pechere | Group A streptococcal pharyngitis is one of the most common, but also controversial infections clinicians are faced with every day. Clinical diagnosis is often not specific; laboratory data can be misleading and are frequently misinterpreted. Despite the in vitro effectiveness of penicillin, it does not always eradicat... | Streptococcal Pharyngitis |
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iMinds | Want your general knowledge to cross all boundaries? Start becoming a Polymath with iMinds Polymath collections.Polymath Version One is a collection of 36 iMinds knowledge titles, each a self contained grab of engaging information. Learn about topics as diverse as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the US Federal Reserve, Crop ... | Polymath, Volume 1 |
Inc Barron's Educational Series | This is volume six, Reading Level 2, in a comprehensive program (Reading Levels 1 and 2)for beginning readers.Two nine-book sets teach reading to children from preschool to grades K and 1, emphasizing phonics while also presenting a lively and engaging collection of facts and stories to make kids’ reading experiences e... | What Do You Say? |
Patricia Fripp | If you are like most business people and sales professionals, you are spending a fortune trying to influence the people who have never heard of you, when it’s far easier and more valuable to influence the people who already know you and who can act as your PR team! In virtually all businesses, we try to encourage, pers... | How to Promote Yourself and Your Business |
Glenn Mosley | The Power of Prayer around the World Glenn Mosley and Joanna Hill Universally, the power of prayer has been recognized by many cultures for immeasurable time. Whether it be a part of a formal service recited with a congregation of worshipers or an individual, quiet moment, prayer is part of the lives of people from a v... | The Power of Prayer Around the World |
Joseph Jaffe | Why customer retention is the new acquisition If there's anything the recession of 2009 taught us, it was the importance of investing in our customers, but when was this any different? So says Joseph Jaffe, bestselling author of Life After the 30-Second Spot and Join the Conversation, and a leading expert and thought... | Flip the Funnel |
Carlos Arturo Jimenez | Nosotros no le deciamos presidente es una cronica sobre la Nicaragua revolucionaria. Esta escrita desde adentro, con personajes que traen los episodios de los que fueron protagonistas, con los hechos presentados desde diversos puntos de vista. Los origenes de la Revolucion Sandinista, las causas de su caida, sus consec... | Nosotros no le deciamos presidente |
Bob Burg | The Go-Giver took the business world by storm with its message that giving is the simplest, most fulfilling, and most effective path to success. It has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers around the world-but some have wondered how the story's lessons stand up to the tough challenges of everyday, real-world busin... | Go-Givers Sell More |
Bill Evjen | All new, for ASP.NET 2.0, this bestselling book provides experienced developers with real-world examples of the powerful new time-saving, code-saving features in this new version. Seasoned author and International .NET Association founder Bill Evjen along with Scott Hanselman help developers make a smooth transition to... | Professional ASP.NET 2.0 |
Philip Whiteley | ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark c... | Motivation |
Earl Emerson | Earl Emerson, bestselling author of Vertical Burn, turns up the heat with this dynamic, fact-based depiction of the world of firefighting. In a frantic race against time, one man must unlock the secret to his own potential demise and that of his entire department--as they venture . . .INTO THE INFERNOIn the freezing he... | Vertical Burn & Into the Inferno |
Matthew Futterman | In the cash-soaked world of contemporary sports, where every season brings news of higher salaries, endorsement deals, and television contracts, it is mind-boggling to remember that as recently as the 1970s elite athletes earned so little money that many were forced to work second jobs in the off-season. Roger Staubach... | Players |
Nancy C Muir | The Internet is amazing, but the risks you've heard about are real, too. You can avoid being a victim of online crime with the simple steps for staying safe online that you'll find in Using the Internet Safely For Seniors For Dummies. Here's the guide you need to steer safely through the hazards so you can shop, visi... | Using the Internet Safely For Seniors For Dummies® |
Anne Tyler | From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at tha... | Noah's Compass |
E. L Arch | They were a strange lot, the residents at Mrs. Mumble's boardinghouse — her name wasn't "mumble," but that was what people did when they tried to pronounce it — and you might call the place a miniature United Nations. There was Yusef Afifi, Afghan, an importer; Fritz Holtzer, advertising model; Johnny Jones, Welshman; ... | The Man With Three Eyes |
Christophe Champod | The field of fingerprinting for personal identification and criminal investigation is progressing at a rapid rate. Numerous research projects are devoted to fingerprint detection techniques and identification issues, and recent debate focuses on the admissibility of fingerprint evidence in US courts. In light of these ... | Fingerprints and Other Ridge Skin Impressions |
Neil Birks | A straightforward treatment describing the oxidation processes of metals and alloys at elevated temperatures. This new edition retains the fundamental theory but incorporates advances made in understanding degradation phenomena. The first half provides an authoritative introduction to the basic principles, covering the... | Introduction to the High Temperature Oxidation of Metals |
Yoga Journal | The definitive book of yoga therapy, this groundbreaking work comes to you from the medical editor of the country's premier yoga magazine, who is both a practicing yogi and a Western-trained physician. Beginning with an overview of the history and science of yoga, Dr. McCall describes the many different techniques in t... | Yoga as Medicine |
Giovanni Bianchi | Phase locked loops (PLLs) are electronic circuits that ensure that a communications signal stays locked on a given frequency. Their design is crucial to the workings of wireless communications systems. Virtually all transceivers use PLLs to synthesize the stable, high frequency oscillations necessary for radio & wirele... | Phase-Looped Loop Synthesizer Simulation |
Robert Tittler | A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles. An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent... | A Companion to Tudor Britain |
Mary Wine | An Imperfect MatchBrodick McJames is an earl in name only. To secure his clan’s future he needs an English wife. Mary Stanford, daughter of the Earl of Warwickshire, will suit perfectly. He’s never met her, but what matter? She’ll grace his bed eventually, and once she bears his child he need see her no more. Anne Copp... | In Bed With A Stranger |
Kirk McElhearn | Experience the excitement of Apple’s revolutionary new release with help from this hands-on guide. How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Tiger explains all the features. Learn to use the Finder to easily navigate files, folders, and applications, set up and manage user accounts, access the Internet, and print and fax docu... | How to Do Everything with Mac® OS X Tiger |
Craig Dougherty | The ESL Safety Book is a fifty unit reproducible reading and discussion text. The articles in The ESL Safety Book are short and written at a beginner level. The articles are complemented by a variety of exercises, with attention paid to the different skills areas. What could be more important than teaching your esl cla... | The ESL Safety Book |
Rudyard Kipling | This is a collection of tales about India under British rule during the 1880-1890s. Unlike many such tales, it is entirely human--that is, Kipling writes about people under those conditions, and moreso about ordinary people. He isn't a lapdog of fame, catering to governors and kings and bureaucrats by putting their nam... | Soldiers Three [Part 2 of 2] |
James Walsh | The Asset Protection and Security Management Handbook is a must for all professionals involved in the protection of assets. For those new to the security profession, the text covers the fundamental aspects of security and security management providing a firm foundation for advanced development. For the experienced secu... | Asset Protection and Security Management Handbook |
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