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Harwinder Sekhon 301bf90f86 news archive: keep every headline + its DeepSeek score in its own DB
Headlines only ever survived as a side effect of signal logging, and
logs/signals.db was rotated around 2026-09-04 — destroying the 3-week,
4,054-headline corpus news_sentiment_value_2026-09-04.md was written on.
logs/ is gitignored, so git could not recover it and nobody noticed for
four days. There is no way to backfill a fetch window once it passes.

news_archive.py writes to its OWN database (logs/newsdata.db) so a
signal-log rotation cannot take the news with it. One row per distinct
headline (sha256 key) with the text, description, link, publisher,
publish time, the score, and — new — which scorer produced that score.

Provenance is the load-bearing part. DeepSeek scores 78/78 on the
2026-08-06 golden set; the keyword scorer it overrides scores 24/78
(31%), and that is what silently stands on no key, disabled, daily cap,
timeout, HTTP/parse failure, or the >25-new-headlines-per-cycle batch
overflow. Until now both landed in the same column, indistinguishable,
so a model trained on the mix would inherit the keyword scorer's errors.
NewsSentiment.score_source now records it, mirrored into signals.db via
signal_log._headline_to_dict, and teacher_model/teacher_prompt_sha1 keep
labels made under a changed prompt from being pooled with older ones.

Writes are one atomic UPSERT per row, upgrade-only: an llm score always
replaces a keyword one (the batch-overflow tail gets labelled on the
next window in a long-running process — verified 13/13), a keyword score
never overwrites an llm one, and re-seeing a headline always counts. A
read-then-write pair lost increments when the bot, the dashboard
publisher and the tests first saw a headline together, and the WAL
switch itself needed _with_lock_retry; both are regression-tested with
three concurrent writers.

The hook sits at the end of _fetch_news_sentiment_raw, BEFORE
_is_neutral_headline runs in get_fundamental_context. Archiving
downstream of that ±0.1 filter is why signals.db holds almost no neutral
headlines and would have taught a trained scorer that "neutral" barely
exists.

scripts/backfill_news_archive.py seeds it from both DB shapes on disk,
read-only and idempotent, recomputing provenance by comparing each
stored score against the keyword scorer (neither source recorded it):
1,016 distinct headlines, 846 DeepSeek-labelled, growing ~1,400/week.

Nothing in the signal core changed. Both news gating flags stay False,
no gate reads any of this, and the backtester never builds a NewsEngine
so replays never archive (test-locked). 468 -> 483 tests, including a
new guard that AST-walks live code for sklearn/scipy/lightgbm imports —
that check did not exist before.

Do not train yet: ~800 labels gives a holdout too small to grade
(SE +/-0.032). Target is ~4,000 deduplicated headlines over >=3 weeks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Bzv4ETVapFNauFDQht7QtA
2026-09-08 12:35:57 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Seed logs/newsdata.db from the headline blobs still on disk.
==============================================================
The durable headline corpus (``news_archive.py``) only started collecting
when its hook shipped. Everything before that survives only inside signal
logs, in two different shapes:
* ``logs/signals.db`` — modern schema, headlines interned into
``news_snapshots`` (kind ``headlines``) and referenced by hash.
* an older orphan DB (default ``~/signals.db``) — pre-interning, blobs
inline in ``signals.headlines_json``, short-form item keys with no
``description``, ``link``, ``publisher`` or ``score_by_currency``.
Both are opened READ-ONLY. The script is idempotent: re-running it adds
nothing new and never downgrades a score.
Provenance is RECOMPUTED, not trusted
-------------------------------------
Neither source records which scorer produced its ``score`` — that flag
only exists from this change onwards. So each headline is re-scored with
the live keyword scorer and compared:
* stored score differs from the keyword score -> ``llm`` (DeepSeek wrote it)
* exact match on a non-zero score -> ``keyword``
* both zero -> ``unknown`` (indistinguishable)
Rows are stamped ``origin='backfill'`` because they come from the
post-filter pool: ``get_fundamental_context`` drops headlines inside
±0.1 before they ever reach a signal row, so genuinely neutral headlines
are under-represented in this history. Rows collected live by the hook
in ``news_engine`` do not have that bias and are stamped ``'live'``.
Usage
-----
venv/bin/python scripts/backfill_news_archive.py --dry-run
venv/bin/python scripts/backfill_news_archive.py
venv/bin/python scripts/backfill_news_archive.py --legacy-db /path/to/old.db
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import os
import sqlite3
import sys
from collections import Counter
from typing import Any, Dict, Iterator, Tuple
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
import app_config # noqa: E402
import news_archive # noqa: E402
from config import NewsConfig # noqa: E402
from news_engine import NewsEngine # noqa: E402
def _open_ro(path: str) -> sqlite3.Connection:
"""Read-only, but NOT immutable=1 — that flag is blind to WAL rows."""
return sqlite3.connect(f"file:{os.path.abspath(path)}?mode=ro", uri=True)
def _has_table(con: sqlite3.Connection, name: str) -> bool:
row = con.execute(
"SELECT 1 FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name=?",
(name,)).fetchone()
return row is not None
def iter_blobs(path: str) -> Iterator[Tuple[str, str]]:
"""Yield (headlines_json, seen_at) from either DB shape."""
con = _open_ro(path)
try:
if _has_table(con, "news_snapshots"):
yield from con.execute(
"SELECT body, first_seen FROM news_snapshots"
" WHERE kind='headlines' ORDER BY first_seen")
cols = {r[1] for r in con.execute("PRAGMA table_info(signals)")}
if "headlines_json" in cols:
order = "logged_at" if "logged_at" in cols else "id"
yield from con.execute(
"SELECT headlines_json, "
+ ("logged_at" if "logged_at" in cols else "''")
+ " FROM signals WHERE headlines_json IS NOT NULL"
f" ORDER BY {order}")
finally:
con.close()
class _Row:
"""Duck-typed stand-in for NewsSentiment, so news_archive.build_row
flattens a stored dict exactly the way it flattens a live headline."""
__slots__ = ("headline", "source", "timestamp", "currencies_mentioned",
"sentiment_score", "keywords", "sentiment_by_currency",
"link", "description", "publisher", "score_source")
def __init__(self, item: Dict[str, Any], score_source: str):
self.headline = item.get("headline")
self.source = item.get("source")
self.timestamp = item.get("timestamp")
self.currencies_mentioned = item.get("currencies") or []
self.sentiment_score = item.get("score")
self.keywords = item.get("keywords") or []
self.sentiment_by_currency = item.get("score_by_currency") or {}
self.link = item.get("link")
self.description = item.get("description")
self.publisher = item.get("publisher")
self.score_source = score_source
def classify(engine: NewsEngine, item: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
"""Recover which scorer produced this stored score."""
text = item.get("headline")
if not isinstance(text, str) or not text.strip():
return "unknown"
try:
stored = float(item.get("score") or 0.0)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return "unknown"
keyword = engine._analyze_headline_sentiment(text)
if abs(stored - keyword) > 1e-9:
return "llm"
if abs(stored) < 1e-9:
return "unknown" # both zero — the two scorers are indistinguishable
return "keyword"
def collect(paths, engine: NewsEngine):
"""Newest wins per headline: later blobs carry upgraded LLM scores."""
best: Dict[str, Tuple[str, Dict[str, Any], str]] = {}
stats = Counter()
for path in paths:
if not os.path.exists(path):
print(f" skip (not found): {path}")
continue
blobs = 0
for body, seen_at in iter_blobs(path):
try:
items = json.loads(body)
except Exception:
stats["bad_blob"] += 1
continue
blobs += 1
for item in items:
if not isinstance(item, dict):
continue
text = item.get("headline")
if not isinstance(text, str) or not text.strip():
continue
source = classify(engine, item)
prior = best.get(text)
if prior is None or (
news_archive._SOURCE_RANK.get(source, 0)
>= news_archive._SOURCE_RANK.get(prior[0], 0)):
best[text] = (source, item, seen_at or "")
stats["items"] += 1
print(f" {path}: {blobs} blobs")
for source, _, _ in best.values():
stats[source] += 1
return best, stats
def main() -> int:
default_legacy = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), "signals.db")
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.split("\n")[1])
ap.add_argument("--db", default=app_config.signal_log_path(),
help="modern signal-log DB (default: config path)")
ap.add_argument("--legacy-db", default=default_legacy,
help=f"older inline-blob DB (default: {default_legacy})")
ap.add_argument("--out", default=app_config.news_archive_path(),
help="archive DB to write (default: config path)")
ap.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true",
help="count only, write nothing")
args = ap.parse_args()
engine = NewsEngine(NewsConfig())
print("Reading headline blobs (read-only):")
best, stats = collect([args.db, args.legacy_db], engine)
print(f"\n headline items scanned : {stats['items']}")
print(f" distinct headlines : {len(best)}")
print(f" llm (DeepSeek) : {stats['llm']}")
print(f" keyword : {stats['keyword']}")
print(f" unknown (both zero) : {stats['unknown']}")
if stats["bad_blob"]:
print(f" unparseable blobs : {stats['bad_blob']}")
if args.dry_run:
print("\n--dry-run: nothing written.")
return 0
if not best:
print("\nNothing to write.")
return 0
rows = []
for text, (source, item, seen_at) in best.items():
row = news_archive.build_row(
_Row(item, source),
teacher_model=None, # not recorded by either source
teacher_prompt_sha1=None,
origin="backfill",
first_seen=seen_at or None,
last_seen=seen_at or None)
if row is not None:
rows.append(row)
archive = news_archive.NewsArchive(args.out)
try:
written = archive.store(rows)
finally:
archive.close()
print(f"\nWrote {written} rows to {args.out}")
con = _open_ro(args.out)
try:
print("\nArchive now holds:")
for source, count in con.execute(
"SELECT score_source, COUNT(*) FROM headlines"
" GROUP BY score_source ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC"):
print(f" {source:8s} {count}")
finally:
con.close()
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())