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`pyarrow`'s `read_csv` function[0] has just four default arguments (defaulted to None): 3 option objets and one Memory Pool option. ``` pyarrow.csv.read_csv(input_file, read_option…

>A note for my European friends - some of these links might not work from outside the US, as some .gov links tend not to. Is the author assuming you're either from the US or Europe…

This has been my experience too. The transactional vs familiar thing is a tradeoff IMHO and people will have different preferences. Also: I'd like to ask you a few questions on Lat…

I've talked about this topic with many people and it seldom matches the opinions of many people here in hacker news. I wonder if hacker news is biased towards a specific type of pe…

Are you saying that the US does believe in a rules-based international system? Let's count the number of countries the USA has invaded vs China...and the government topples with th…

From your point of view, I can see how China is bad and the USA is good. But ask someone whose country got invaded by the USA or whose bloody dictator got supported by the USA. Ove…

You're right, that's the core mechanims of GANs. The current state of the art models aren't using a GAN structure, but it's plausible that they achieve state of the art numbers in …

>People who are great at writing prompts for ChatGPT aren't going to be that, either. I don't see why this would be true. If you have evidence of some strong argument on why this w…

Text generating models are so much more than spell checkers, but allow me to make a comparison . Before spell checkers, having good spelling was relatively difficult and it allowed…

I think keeping an embargo and hurting a country for 60 years is enough to send a signal. In any case, the US government isn't doing it motivated by some intertemporal consistency …

It's funny that you mention poetry. With poetry I do like to feel the sound of words. I very much like Emily Dickinson, why? (What's your favorite piece of poetry?)

This is your opinion. Many experts (the majority right now?) do see the beginning of general intelligence and I would urge you to at least entertain the possibility that those expe…

Why is Sartre de waiter? I don't get it

My experience with academics is that most don't know / don't understand the benefits of coding things in a better way, so they don't even consider hiring someone to help. The other…

I don't think you're being charitable enough. GP point is actually thought-provoking (at least to me): doing it for humans doesn't make sense. Does it make sense to do it for AI? T…

I read without hearing the words. If I'm tired, however, sometimes I need to start reading out loud to keep concentrated. Also, non phonetic writing systems will push you towards n…

But Lula got arrested by the judiciary, right? How do you reconcile that with what you're saying?

The map is a just a joke...the whole point is that there are so few countries that have this format that it looks silly to represent this information with a map. Adding the ~2 othe…

Please reflect on whether you're being unreasonable and too emotional on this response (i.e. you're not considering the evidence that is given and you're not giving evidence of you…

Agreed. I don't want either (in general, there might be exception s). I obviously want to hold people (the people that actually have the kiddie porn, that are actually posting the …

I don't think you're using the principle of charity here ("make the best interpretation of a post"). The person isn't complain, he/she is just saying that people will probably retu…

I don't know about your corner in Canada, but that "there was nothing here 150 years ago" is a dangerous lie told by people in many parts of the USA and Canada that minimized the i…

I've been complaining about FIFA for at least a decade, I don't see it as a new thing

So the tens of thousand of migrant workers didn't die?

Is this a play on words? At least how I understand the word, "whitewash" doesn't have a racial reference. The countries that need a whitewash are the ones that have really bad huma…