.NET Inside Out Part 10 — Using type markers for low level optimizations

Written on Aug, 31, 2019

This is the tenth part of the .NET Inside Out series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Virtual and non-virtual calls in C# If you are interested in the topic see the…

Decreasing pain of stolen focus

Written on Aug, 24, 2019

One of the most irritating thing in Windows is no way to prevent an application from stealing focus. There are multiple questions on Stack Overflow regarding the issue, there are rumors that Microsoft wanted to do something but they cannot detect it reliably.…

Comparing numbers is hard

Written on Aug, 17, 2019

We know that to compare floating point values we should use epsilon and not just compare bits. We may run into similar issues when comparing BigDecimal in Java:

BigDecimal a = BigDecimal.valueOf(0);
BigDecimal b = BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.valueOf(0));
System.out.println(a.equals(b));

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BigDecimal b = BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.valueOf(0));

System.out.println(a.equals(b));

What is the output? Of course it is false, otherwise I wouldn’t write this…

Custom memory allocation in C# Part 12 — Hiding objects from GC

Written on Aug, 10, 2019

This is the twelfth part of the Custom memory allocation series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 — Allocating object on a stack We already know how to allocate memory anywhere on the…

Modifying Android application on a binary level

Written on Aug, 03, 2019

Recently I had to modify an existing Android application for which I didn’t have a source code, only APK file. This may sound like an impossible task but actually it is pretty easy (very tedious, though). I didn’t want to use any compilers…

Machine Learning Part 8 — Backpropagation in neural net in SQL

Written on Jul, 27, 2019

This is the eighth part of the ML series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Linear regression in MXNet Last time we saw forward propagation in neural net. Today we are going…

Machine Learning Part 7 — Forward propagation in neural net in SQL

Written on Jul, 20, 2019

This is the seventh part of the ML series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Linear regression in MXNet Today we are going to create a neural net and calculate forward propagation…

Windowing functions in recursive CTE

Written on Jul, 13, 2019

Today we will see an interesting case of incompatibility between MS SQL Server 2017 and PostgreSQL 9.6 (and different versions as well). Let’s start with this code:

WITH dummy AS(
    SELECT 1 AS rowValue, 0 AS phase
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 2 AS rowValue, 0 AS phase
),
solution AS (
    SELECT * FROM dummy
),
solution2 AS(
    SELECT
        SUM(rowValue) OVER (PARTITION BY phase) AS rowValue,
        phase + 1 AS phase
    FROM solution
    WHERE phase = 0
)
SELECT *
FROM solution2
WHERE phase = 1

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WITH dummy AS(

SELECT 1 AS rowValue, 0 AS phase

UNION ALL

SELECT 2 AS rowValue, 0 AS phase

),

solution AS (

SELECT * FROM dummy

),

solution2 AS(

SELECT

SUM(rowValue) OVER (PARTITION BY phase) AS rowValue,

phase + 1 AS phase

FROM solution

WHERE phase = 0

)

SELECT *

FROM solution2

WHERE phase = 1

We emulate a recursive CTE. We have two columns in source dataset, we want to…

Running On Screen Keyboard in Windows 10 in C#

Written on Jul, 06, 2019

Today something supposedly very simple. How to run On Screen Keyboard from C#? Easy enough you say and type the following code:

Process.Start(@"osk.exe");

1	Process.Start(@"osk.exe");

And then you compile it as Any CPU, run on Windows 10 x64 and you get the following error: What…

Machine Learning Part 6 — Matrix multiplication in SQL

Written on Jun, 29, 2019

This is the sixth part of the ML series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Linear regression in MXNet Today we are going to implement a matrix multiplication in Redshift. Let’s go.…

Spark and NegativeArraySizeException

Written on Jun, 22, 2019

Recently I was debugging the following crash in Spark:

java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.resize(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:447)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.putStash(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:245)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.push(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:239)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.put(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:135)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.putStash(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:246)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.push(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:239)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.put(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:135)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.MapReferenceResolver.addWrittenObject(MapReferenceResolver.java:41)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeReferenceOrNull(Kryo.java:658)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:623)
	at com.twitter.chill.Tuple2Serializer.write(TupleSerializers.scala:37)
	at com.twitter.chill.Tuple2Serializer.write(TupleSerializers.scala:33)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:628)
	at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer$$anonfun$write$1.apply(Traversable.scala:29)
	at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer$$anonfun$write$1.apply(Traversable.scala:27)
	at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:99)
	at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:99)
	at scala.collection.mutable.HashTable$class.foreachEntry(HashTable.scala:230)
	at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreachEntry(HashMap.scala:40)
	at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:99)
	at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer.write(Traversable.scala:27)
	at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer.write(Traversable.scala:21)
	at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:628)
	at org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializationStream.writeObject(KryoSerializer.scala:207)
	at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$$anonfun$blockifyObject$2.apply(TorrentBroadcast.scala:268)
	at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$$anonfun$blockifyObject$2.apply(TorrentBroadcast.scala:268)
	at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryWithSafeFinally(Utils.scala:1303)
	at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$.blockifyObject(TorrentBroadcast.scala:269)
	at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.writeBlocks(TorrentBroadcast.scala:126)
	at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.<init>(TorrentBroadcast.scala:88)
	at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcastFactory.newBroadcast(TorrentBroadcastFactory.scala:34)
	at org.apache.spark.broadcast.BroadcastManager.newBroadcast(BroadcastManager.scala:56)
	at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.broadcast(SparkContext.scala:1411)

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java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.resize(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:447)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.putStash(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:245)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.push(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:239)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.put(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:135)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.putStash(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:246)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.push(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:239)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.IdentityObjectIntMap.put(IdentityObjectIntMap.java:135)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.util.MapReferenceResolver.addWrittenObject(MapReferenceResolver.java:41)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeReferenceOrNull(Kryo.java:658)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:623)

at com.twitter.chill.Tuple2Serializer.write(TupleSerializers.scala:37)

at com.twitter.chill.Tuple2Serializer.write(TupleSerializers.scala:33)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:628)

at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer$$anonfun$write$1.apply(Traversable.scala:29)

at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer$$anonfun$write$1.apply(Traversable.scala:27)

at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:99)

at scala.collection.mutable.HashTable$class.foreachEntry(HashTable.scala:230)

at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreachEntry(HashMap.scala:40)

at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:99)

at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer.write(Traversable.scala:27)

at com.twitter.chill.TraversableSerializer.write(Traversable.scala:21)

at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:628)

at org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializationStream.writeObject(KryoSerializer.scala:207)

at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$$anonfun$blockifyObject$2.apply(TorrentBroadcast.scala:268)

at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.tryWithSafeFinally(Utils.scala:1303)

at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$.blockifyObject(TorrentBroadcast.scala:269)

at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.writeBlocks(TorrentBroadcast.scala:126)

at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.<init>(TorrentBroadcast.scala:88)

at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcastFactory.newBroadcast(TorrentBroadcastFactory.scala:34)

at org.apache.spark.broadcast.BroadcastManager.newBroadcast(BroadcastManager.scala:56)

at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.broadcast(SparkContext.scala:1411)

Disabling Kryo solves the issue. To do that just set spark.serializer to org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaSerializer. Other workaround is to change Kryo’s reference management, as explained on Github:

Kryo kryo = new Kryo();
kryo.setReferences(false);

1 2	Kryo kryo = new Kryo(); kryo.setReferences(false);

Spark and NullPointerException in UTF8String.contains

Written on Jun, 15, 2019

Recently I was debugging a NullPointerException in Spark. The stacktrace was indicating this:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8String.contains(UTF8String.java:284)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GeneratedClass$GeneratedIterator.processNext(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.BufferedRowIterator.hasNext(BufferedRowIterator.java:43)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.WholeStageCodegenExec$$anonfun$8$$anon$1.hasNext(WholeStageCodegenExec.scala:377)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:231)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:225)
	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitionsInternal$1$$anonfun$apply$25.apply(RDD.scala:826)
	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitionsInternal$1$$anonfun$apply$25.apply(RDD.scala:826)
	at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)
	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:323)
	at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:287)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:87)
	at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:99)
	at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:282)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

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java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8String.contains(UTF8String.java:284)

at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GeneratedClass$GeneratedIterator.processNext(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.BufferedRowIterator.hasNext(BufferedRowIterator.java:43)

at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.WholeStageCodegenExec$$anonfun$8$$anon$1.hasNext(WholeStageCodegenExec.scala:377)

at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:231)

at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:225)

at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitionsInternal$1$$anonfun$apply$25.apply(RDD.scala:826)

at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38)

at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:323)

at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:287)

at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:87)

at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:99)

at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:282)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

After some digging I found out that the following query causes the problem:

df1
  .join(df2,
	df1("id1") === df2("id2")
	  && !isnull(df1("ref"))
	  && !isnull(df2("ref"))
	  && df2("ref").contains(df1("ref")) // <--- this is the problem
	, "left_outer"
  )
  .drop("id2")

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df1

.join(df2,

df1("id1") === df2("id2")

&& !isnull(df1("ref"))

&& !isnull(df2("ref"))

&& df2("ref").contains(df1("ref")) // <--- this is the problem

, "left_outer"

)

.drop("id2")

If I commented out the line with the comment the NPE was no longer there.…

Playing With args4j Part 5 — Safe setters

Written on Jun, 08, 2019

This is the fifth part of the Playing With args4j series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Mixins There is one more problem with our setters — they are not type safe.…

Playing With args4j Part 4 — Nicer setters

Written on Jun, 01, 2019

This is the fourth part of the Playing With args4j series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Mixins Last time we ended with the setter of a form

parameters.set(IJobParameters::parameter, "Value", JobParameters.class);

1	parameters.set(IJobParameters::parameter, "Value", JobParameters.class);

. What we don’t…

Playing With args4j Part 3 — Nice setters

Written on May, 25, 2019

This is the third part of the Playing With args4j series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Mixins Let’s see how we can implement the setters. Idea is as following: we will…

Playing With args4j Part 2 — Automatic getters

Written on May, 18, 2019

This is the second part of the Playing With args4j series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Mixins Last time we created mixins to be able to compose classes with multiple inherited…

Playing With args4j Part 1 — Mixins

Written on May, 11, 2019

This is the first part of the Playing With args4j series. For your convenience you can find other parts using the links below (or by guessing the address): Part 1 — Mixins Part 2 — Automatic getters Part 3 — Nice setters Part…

.NET Internals Cookbook Part 12 — Memory structure, attributes, handles

Written on May, 04, 2019

This is the twelfth part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 82. What is a bit-mapped attribute? Custom attribute? Pseudo-custom attribute? There are…

.NET Internals Cookbook Part 11 — Various C# riddles

Written on Apr, 27, 2019

This is the eleventh part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 75. What is the TimeSpan resolution? It’s 100 nanoseconds, as specified by…

.NET Internals Cookbook Part 10 — Threads, Tasks, asynchronous code and others

Written on Apr, 20, 2019

This is the tenth part of the .NET Internals Cookbook series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 0 – Table of contents 65. How can you await async void method or catch exceptions thrown…

.NET Inside Out Part 10 — Using type markers for low level optimizations

Decreasing pain of stolen focus

Comparing numbers is hard

Custom memory allocation in C# Part 12 — Hiding objects from GC

Modifying Android application on a binary level

Machine Learning Part 8 — Backpropagation in neural net in SQL

Machine Learning Part 7 — Forward propagation in neural net in SQL

Windowing functions in recursive CTE

Running On Screen Keyboard in Windows 10 in C#

Machine Learning Part 6 — Matrix multiplication in SQL

Spark and NegativeArraySizeException

Spark and NullPointerException in UTF8String.contains

Playing With args4j Part 5 — Safe setters

Playing With args4j Part 4 — Nicer setters

Playing With args4j Part 3 — Nice setters

Playing With args4j Part 2 — Automatic getters

Playing With args4j Part 1 — Mixins

.NET Internals Cookbook Part 12 — Memory structure, attributes, handles

.NET Internals Cookbook Part 11 — Various C# riddles

.NET Internals Cookbook Part 10 — Threads, Tasks, asynchronous code and others

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