parallel_apply never starts processing

ISSUE: Progress on the parallel_apply never starts going up.

I am trying to use parallel_apply to populate new columns on a data frame. This takes about 50 minutes with normal apply, but every column is independent so it should be easily parallelizable.

I am using the following to initialize:

pandarallel.initialize(nb_workers=8, progress_bar=True, use_memory_fs=False)

OUTPUT:

INFO: Pandarallel will run on 8 workers.
INFO: Pandarallel will use standard multiprocessing data transfer (pipe) to transfer data between the main process and workers.

and this is my parallel_apply call:

allowed_types_list = ['...', '...', ..., '...']
data["allowed"] = data["type"].apply(lambda x: 1 if x in allowed_types_list else 0)

The shape of my dataframe is: (4717892, 8)

ISSUE: Progress on the parallel_apply never starts going up.

I tried similarly on a different function that takes around 5 second on apply, and same thing happens. I tried it on my local computer (running MacOS with an i9, using pipe for data transfer) and on Google Colab (here I had 4 cores, using memory file system for data transfer). Same behavior on both.

Am I missing something?

As a side note, is it possible to get the progress bars working on Google Colab?