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> In CPU world there is a desire to shield programmers from those low-level details, but I think there are two interesting forces at play now-a-days that’ll change it soon. On one hand, Dennard Scaling (aka free lunch) is long gone, hardware landscape is getting increasingly fragmented and specialized out of necessity, software abstractions are getting leakier, forcing developers to be aware of the lowest levels of abstraction, hardware, for good performance.
The problem is that not all programming languages expose SIMD, and even if they do it is only a portable subset, additionally the kind of skills that are required to be able to use SIMD properly isn't something everyone is confortable doing.
I certainly am not, still managed to get around with MMX and early SSE, can manage shading languages, and that is about it.
Imagine if there were programs that let you write HTML like using a word processor. And then they let you upload that file to a server.
I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 from 2004 to edit some sites. I paid for it as a boxed product, including the right to transfer it to a replacement computer. It's on its fourth replacement computer now, running under Wine emulation on Linux.
The sites load really fast.
There were a few attempts to build open source tools like Dreamweaver, but they all seem to have been abandoned.
Alongside delivering in performance, and being a role model in pushing oneself to the limit in regards to training.
Photos don't win matches.
Or maybe they think they should be sending each keystroke to a server and waiting for the response.
Consumers vote with their wallet buying disposable electronics at 1 euro shops kind of quality.
This has to be legally enforced to turn around.
Glean is interesting from language nerd point of view, however I never had a reason to use Erlang at work, and probably never will, and I suspect that relates to most folks.
Which goes to show writing C, C++ or whatever systems language isn't automatically blazing fast, depending on what is being done.
Very interesting read.
Which is why when folks nowadays say "you cannot use XYZ for embedded", given what most embedded systems look like, and what many of us used to code on 8 and 16 bit home computers, I can only assert they have no idea how powerful modern embedded systems have become.
Now that it is a pity that when people talk about saving the planet everyone keeps rushing to dispoable electronics, what serves me to go by bycicle to work, be vegetarian, recicle my garbage, if everyone is dumping tablets, phones and magnificient thin laptops into the ground, and vapes of course.
Fair enough, but that is a kind of work that back in the day one would carry a pager, or be forced to stay at home during "on-call shift" back in the day.
I do agree HN is a bit hard to let go, but it is possible. :)
I had similar feelings of perplexity until one day it dawned on me that Adams' self-insert wasn't Dilbert, but Dogbert.
as an independent Artist I wanted to put my emotions and my soul on this masterpiece
Barf
See "The Your Name Here Story" (1960) [1] It's a generic industrial film.
You got me. The WASM runtime I vibe-coded on my phone over the holidays isn't actually very good!
but because the app is no longer in development, it's essentially useless
the app used to store data for up to 5 users to keep track over time. I miss that!
What? Was it storing the data on a cloud server? In that case it's a different story, but a local app should continue working essentially indefinitely.
All this focus on source code is IMHO missing the point. RMS also missed this point when he started the GNU project. Source code is neither necessary nor sufficient for (legal) freedom. They just need to relinquish the copyright and release any keys and such getting in the way. Lots of examples otherwise --- I'll refer you to the cracking scene, game modding, etc.
In the physical world, products can be "EOL" for decades and the aftermarket will fill in the void if there is demand, often even when the original product is still in production. The original manufacturer never released blueprints and other comparable-to-source-code information; they just don't try to stop the aftermarket. Mid-century cars are a great example of this.
tl;dr: stop demanding source code, start demanding freedom.
No, just let the scavengers continue collecting and reusing them.
> O visa's original intent was to help pretty ladies from Eastern Europe to be brought into the country as indentured workers
That seems like something we should fix?
I'm in the process of designing some electronics bricks for one of my kids so he can take a schematic, given all of the parts then place the bricks on a baseplate and connect them with the circuit represented as close as possible. It's an interesting project, the biggest challenge I seem to have is to source the spring terminals, I have yet to find a place that will sell them separately.
We're apparently back to making psychoanalysts out of interviewers:
I'll dedicate a post to specific ways you can identify motivation
during hiring, but in short, look for: the obvious one: evidence that
they indeed exhibited these external signs of motivation (in an
unforced way!) in past jobs; signs of grit in their career and life
paths (how did they respond to adversity, how have they put their past
successes or reputation on the line for some new challenge);
intellectual curiosity in the form of hobbies, nerdy interests that
they can talk about with passion
> The USA is much worse than China - to foreigners
The USA is such a hellhole that millions want to come here, legally or otherwise.
It only applies regardless of state law to the extent that the officer is both up to and at that point acting without malice in an objectively reasonable belief that that there actions are within their lawful federal duties (not merely the policy directives and goals of the federal superiors), because otherwise Supremacy Clause immunity does not apply, and state law controls fully.
Given ICE's very narrow jurisdiction (despite their current aggressive actions and the clear approval of their federal executive superiors for that aggression) this is a real concern about their content even before the shooting.
> Theres zero consequences because this was completely unambiguously a justified shoot.
There's zero consequences (yet) because the federal government monopolized the evidence and refused to do either allow state authorities access or conduct a real investigation themselves despite clear indications that it was not a justified shoot, resulting in the resignation of several prosecutors in the division that would have handled such a misconduct case.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/federal-prosecutors-resign-min...
I don't believe he had the easily curable kind, or that there's evidence that he completely ditched conventional medicine --- he publicly appealed to Trump for Pluvicto, which treats mCRPC. In several unusual but not ultra-rare cases, CRPC among them, prostate cancer is a nightmare diagnosis. Worse, the kinds of prostate cancer most easily caught by screening tend not to be the aggressive kind, meaning aggressive cases tend to get caught in advanced stages.
Respectfully, I don't think comments like yours are a good idea. I don't think RFKJ had much of anything to do with what happened to Adams.
> > I hope you are not claiming perception of intent is enough to claim a life > > It is the actual intent that counts.
> As an objective legal matter, it is.
You are both wrong. The requirement for self-defense (which may or may not even be available here if it is ever charged, because it doesn't apply to all kinds of murder, notably generally not to felony murder, which given ICE's very narrow jurisdiction there is a very good case, IMO, applies here) is neither mere subjective perception nor actual intent, but objectively reasonable fear. Actual perception of a threat which is not objectively reasonable in the circumstances does not justify self-defense.
I don't think it is possible to talk about fractions of nanoseconds without having an extremely good idea of the stability and accuracy of your clock. At best I think you could claim there is some kind of reduction but it is super hard to make such claims in the absolute without doing a massive amount of prep work to ensure that the measured times themselves are indeed accurate. You could be off by a large fraction and never know the difference. So unless there is a hidden atomic clock involved somewhere in these measurements I think they should be qualified somehow.
Yup. The problem was never with the technology replacing work, it was always with the social aspect of deploying it, that ends up pulling the rug under people whose livelihood depend on exchanging labor for money.
The luddites didn't destroy automatic looms because they hated technology; they did it because losing their jobs and seeing their whole occupation disappear ruined their lives and lives of their families.
The problem to fix isn't automation, but preventing it from destroying people's lives at scale.
Influencers are, by definition, advertisers - and a particularly insidious, ugly bunch at that.
If we go by the vibe of this thread, it's yet another reason to avoid social media. You wouldn't want to reward people like this.
As for the broader topic, this segues into the worryingly popular fallacy of excluded middle. Just because you're not against something, doesn't mean you're supporting it. Being neutral, ambivalent, or plain old just not giving a fuck about a whole class of issues, is a perfectly legitimate place to be in. In fact, that's everyone's default position for most things, because humans have limited mental capacity - we can't have calculated views on every single thing in the world all the time.
"LLM evangelists - are you willing to admit that you just might not be that good at programming computers?"
No.
For good craftspeople bad tools are still tools. For bad craftspeople tools, good ones and bad ones, are just a way to produce more crap.
Dating documents you write on creation and update is always helpful. It doesn't mean one needs to write a chronological blog or have a target cadence.
Seriously, I can't help but think this has to be part of the answer.
Just something like /llms.txt which contains a list of .txt or .txt.gz files or something?
Because the problem is that every site is going to have its own data dump format, often in complex XML or SQL or something.
LLM's don't need any of that metadata, and many sites might not want to provide it because e.g. Yelp doesn't want competitors scraping its list of restaurants.
But if it's intentionally limited to only paragraph-style text, and stripped entirely of URL's, ID's, addresses, phone numbers, etc. -- so e.g. a Yelp page would literally just be the cuisine category and reviews of each restaurant, no name, no city, no identifier or anything -- then it gives LLM's what they need much faster, the site doesn't need to be hammered, and it's not in a format for competitors to easily copy your content.
At most, maybe add markup for <item></item> to represent pages, products, restaurants, whatever the "main noun" is, and recursive <subitem></subitem> to represent e.g. reviews on a restaurant, comments on a review, comments one level deeper on a comment, etc. Maybe a couple more like <title> and <author>, but otherwise just pure text. As simple as possible.
The biggest problem is that a lot of sites will create a "dummy" llms.txt without most of the content because they don't care, so the scrapers will scrape anyways...
So perhaps it's time to standardize that.
Show HN is for everyone, Launch HN is reserved for YC portfolio companies.
That's sorta what MetaBrainz did - they offer their whole DB as a single tarball dump, much like what Wikipedia does. I downloaded it in the order of an hour; if I need a MusicBrainz lookup, I just do a local query.
For this strategy to work, people need to actually use the DB dumps instead of just defaulting to scraping. Unfortunately scraping is trivially easy, particularly now that AI code assistants can write a working scraper in ~5-10 minutes.
If you need motivation, maybe the organization is designed badly.
It was once said of the Roman legions "The Legion is not composed of heroes. Heroes are what the Legion kills." Field Marshall the Viscount Slim, who commanded in the China-Burma-India theater in WWII, once wrote "Wars are won by the average performance of the line units." He wrote negatively on various special forces type units, preferring to use regular infantry and training them up to a good, but not superhuman, standard. Arthur Imperatore, who had a unionized trucking company in New Jersey, is profiled in "Perfecting a Piece of the World" (1993) for how he made his trucking company successful despite a very ordinary workforce.
There's an argument for winning by steady competently managed plodding. The competently managed part is hard. Steve Bechtel, head of the big construction company that bears his name, once said that the limit on how many projects they could take on was finding bosses able to go out to a job site and make it happen. Failure is a management problem, not a worker problem.
That's exactly what one does with their employees when one deploys "credential vaults", so?
The copyright office agreed with you about the non-copyrightability of AI generated media so in that sense you can safely ignore copyright claims on anything AI-generated.
I worry that as technologists we are over indexing on accusing things of being AI. I worry about policies like this where they will remove suspected AI content without investigation.
Case in point, the other day I made a comment on reddit. I spent about 10 minutes writing it. I used proper grammar, bullet points, clean formatting, and em dashes, as I've been doing for many years.
I immediately got downvoted and sent multiple PMs about "not posting AI slop".
I didn't use AI at all to write that comment. It just looked like AI because it was well formed and researched. So am I supposed to add errors just to make it look "human"? But also, how do I even prove I wrote it without AI?
I'm not entirely sure how to solve this problem.
> I would find it genuinely sad to talk to a musician about their arrangement/composition choices, only to find they couldn't
So much of music composition is what "feels right" and is instinctual. Artists aren't consciously aware of probably most of their influences. They can cite some of the most obvious ones, but the creative process is melding a thousand different vibes and sounds and sequences you've heard before, internalized, and joined into something new, in a way only your particular brain could.
Let music historians work on trying to cite and trace influences. That's not something artists need to worry about.
> do not adopt all the "Scrum rituals" like standups, retros, etc. wholesale, and if you do, keep them asynchronous. There is little added value to a voiced update
I couldn't disagree more. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but when standups are done synchronously, everyone actually pays attention, notices blocks and helps with them. Things get surfaced and quickly addressed that simply wouldn't otherwise, which is the purpose of standups. When it's async, people just put in what they're working on and mostly ignore everyone else. Standups need to be about 2-way communication, not 1-way.
And retrospectives are about improving how the team works. Every team has challenges of every kind. Retrospectives are for surfacing those and addressing them. They take up a couple hours a week, but the idea is that after several months the team is more productive and it pays for itself in time.
> Organic 1:1s (as opposed to recurring ones): keep them topic-heavy and ad-hoc, as opposed to relationship maintenance like in the corporate world.
Also disagree. 1-1's aren't about "relationship maintenance", again they're about surfacing issues that wouldn't arise organically -- all the little things that aren't worth scheduling a conversation over, but which need to be addressed for smooth functioning.
At the end of the day, managing a team is managing a team. In terms of managing people, it's not fundamentally that different if you're a 10-engineer startup or a team of 10 engineers at a megacorp. These things aren't "anti-patterns" or "rituals". When done correctly, they work. (Obviously, if done badly, they don't -- so if you're managing a team, do them correctly.)
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking dark - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607454 - January 2026
> BUT, notice the absolutely opposite approach to AI and Web3 on HN. Things that highlight Web3 scams are upvoted and celebrated. But AI deepfakes and scams at scale are always downvoted, flagged and minimized…
It took a few years for that to happen.
Plenty of folks here were all-in on NFTs.
Not an easy question to answer.
On one hand I really like my job and get treated well and like being part of something bigger than myself. On the other hand it would be attractive to spend more time working on some ideas I have.
I don't think there's really clear evidence. They're geopolitical adversaries, but Iran's ability to project force has been decimated over the last 2 years, to the point where Israel literally controls Iran's airspace. They have not much more to gain from further injury to the Iranian regime, and something to lose from regional instability.
(I don't think this analysis speaks well of Israel, for what it's worth, but I don't really think about countries in those terms anyways.)
The movie industry was, for much of the 20th century, split between production in Hollywood and finance in New York. Probably the last gasp of that was Marvel, where, for a long time, the merch and comic people in New York made the final decisions.
The whole story is a good example of why there are IRBs in the first place --- in any story not about this Linux kernel fiasco people generally cast them as the bad guys.
Ironically, the Argument just a few months ago ran a long and well-researched piece on how the housing market isn't for parents --- in many rental markets, there are policies that lock out parents, particularly through permitting processes that favor developments for seniors while icing out any other developments.
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/no-country-for-young-famili...
Meanwhile, a really important dynamic to keep in mind is that in most inner-ring suburbs in the US, the primary driver of home values (and of property taxes) are school systems. If you don't actively enact policies that work against the dynamic, you get trapped in a spiral of increasing prices, in part because parents can bid up prices and suffer them only for the span of time their kids are in school --- "renting the schools".
"trusted execution environment" != end-to-end encryption
The entire point of E2EE is that both "ends" need to be fully under your control.
Yes, Tanenbaum was right. But it is a hard sell, even today, people just don't seem to get it.
Bluntly: if it isn't secure and correct it shouldn't be used. But companies seem to prefer insecure, incorrect but fast software because they are in competition with other parties and the ones that want to do things right get killed in the market.
Losing Apple as a customer is kind of a problem.
“There are a fair number of people in X field who do Y on the side” is a completely and radically different things than “X is a subset of Y.”
It's Signal's job to prioritize safety/privacy/security over all other concerns, and the job of an enterprise IT operation to manage risk. Underrated how different those jobs --- security and risk management --- are!
Most normal people probably wouldn't enjoy working in a shop where Signal owned the risk management function, and IT/dev had to fall in line. But for the work Signal does, their near-absolutist stance makes a lot of sense.
I never worked on Firefox, and am often critical of Mozilla, but I can second this sentiment. It's seemed like everything Mozilla does makes everyone mad, all the time. It's frustrating.
> Still wonder how exactly they are interdicting Starlink…
It's an active transmitter actively shouting "I'm here!" to the right gear.
IIRC, the Ukrainians found it's best to have a nice long wire between you and the terminal for this reason.
Any RF comms can be jammed, you will need ground to satellite laser communications to accomplish this (or you were close enough to a terrestrial free space optics ground station outside of nation state borders a satellite isn't required).
https://spacenews.com/aircraft-links-with-satellite-using-la...
Where I live we have like 6 people doing that, and they all post summaries on Facebook for free.
YES! I was a happy Kanopy movie viewer until last year I got a message that my library card no longer worked on Kanopy and I had to physically go in to the library to get a new one. Maybe someday....
Given the name I thought it was someone reviving a PC brand.
I wonder people who have enough karma on the HN leaderboard would count...
I don't mean the companies are hoarding more powerful models (competition prevents that) - just that the existing models already make it too easy for individuals and companies to build and maintain ad-hoc, problem-specific versions of many commercial software services they now pay for. This is the source of people asking, why haven't AI companies themselves done this to a good chunk of software world. One hypothesis is that they're all gathering data from everyone using LLMs to power their business, in order to do just that. My alternative hypothesis is that they already could start burning through the industry, competing with whole classes of existing products and services, but they purposefully don't, because charging rent from existing players is more profitable than outcompeting them.
It is. If you're at the mountain, on the right trail, and have the right clothing and equipment for the task.
That's why those tiny steps of scientific and technological progress aren't made by just any randos - they're made by people who happen to be at the right place and time, and equipped correctly to be able to take the step.
The important corollary to this is that you can't generally predict this ahead of time. Someone like Einstein was needed to nail down relativity, but standing there few years earlier, you couldn't have predicted it was Einstein who would make a breakthrough, nor what would that be about. Conversely, if Einstein lived 50 years earlier, he wouldn't have come up with relativity, because necessary prerequisites - knowledge, people, environment - weren't there yet.
The old problem of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
> (Also makes me wonder if they still have a Microsoft employee running the PSF… always thought that was odd.)
You might be confusing the Python Steering Council - responsible for leadership of Python language development - with the PSF non-profit there.
The PSF is lead by a full-time executive director who has no other affiliation, plus an elected board of unpaid volunteer directors (I'm one of them).
Microsoft employees occasionally get voted into the board, but there is a rule to make sure a single company doesn't have more than 2 representatives on the board at any one time,
The board also elects a chair/president - previously that was Dawn Wages who worked at Microsoft for part of that time (until March 2025 - Dawn was chair up to October), today it's Jannis Leidel from Anaconda.
Meanwhile the Python steering council is entirely separate from the PSF leadership, with their own election mechanism voted on by Python core contributors. They have five members, none of whom currently work for Microsoft (but there have been Microsoft employees in the past.)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/scott-adams-prostate-can... / https://archive.is/W57Vg
> In his May stream announcing his cancer, he said he’d used anti-parasitic medications ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat himself, but they didn’t work. There’s no evidence that ivermectin works as a cancer treatment.
I don't really think bureaucracy was his downfall.
When I was a lot younger I thought the comic strip was funny but I read a review of it circa 2005 which pointed out it was dangerously cynical and that Dilbert is to blame for his shit life because he goes along with it all. That is, if you care about doing good work, finding meaning in your work, you would reject everything he stands for.
It's tragedy instead comedy and it doesn't matter if you see it through the lens of Karl Marx ("he doesn't challenge the power structure") or through the lens of Tom Peters or James Collins ("search for excellence in the current system")
I mean, there is this social contagion aspect of comedy, you might think it is funny because it it is in a frame where it is supposed to be funny or because other people are laughing. But the wider context is that 4-koma [1] have been dead in the US since at least the 1980s, our culture is not at all competitive or meritocratic and as long we still have Peanuts and Family Circle we are never going to have a Bocchi the Rock. Young people are turning to Japanese pop culture because in Japan quirky individuals can write a light novel or low-budget video game that can become a multi-billion dollar franchise and the doors are just not open for that here, at all.
Thus, Scott Adams, who won the lottery with his comic that rejects the idea of excellence doesn't have any moral basis to talk about corporate DEI and how it fails us all. I think he did have some insights into the spell that Trump casts over people, and it's a hard thing to talk about in a way that people will accept. What people would laugh at when it was framed as fiction didn't seem funny at all when it was presented as fact.
[1] 4-panel comics
I always thought that finding those strips in an office was a warning sign. If they identify with those characters, there was something profoundly wrong.
And yes, the norm was already pretty bad.
> When has American done enough to fight Ukraine’s war for them?
I'm inclined to think Ukraine is fighting our war for us.
The 1980s Cold Warriors would've been flabbergasted at how cheap taking out the Russian military at the knees would wind up being.
Not natively, but you can still use the regular git commands to update them, and it works.
As you get older time is more precious so you want to waste less of it. This is a factor, how much of a factor it is differs from person to person.
Finally HP launched a competitor to the VIC 20.
You should mention you are the founder.
> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed,
They weren't surpressed; he was very open about them from very early on in his career as a comic artist; they were central to his “origin story” and were woven directly into the comics. Its just, for a while, other aspects of his still-recent experience in corporate America gave him other relatable things to say that were mixed in with them, which made it easier to overlook them.
Of course they are. These donations usually come out of the marketing budget. And it's working, we're talking about them.
But also they rely heavily on Python and want to support the ecosystem.
They have a 30% gross margin, they're just soaking up the federal US tax credit (which is also 30% for battery storage and extends through 2032).
Alternatives: https://electrek.co/2025/12/28/opinion-its-time-to-start-rec...
I would imagine whoever wrote those 4 paragraphs has researched a lot more than I did about his political views. If someone with better sources went there and corrected any mistakes made previously, with referenced demonstrating it, the article would be much improved.
Are you really trying to trutherize the protests themselves? We believe our lying eyes.
This is a deeply buried thread nobody is reading anymore. I don't think there's anyone here to convince but me.
The inevitable price hikes once they've killed the local PC?
Heatpumps can now be had for less than £10k .. if you don't have to replace your radiators.
I do think more people should consider mini-split reversible AC in the UK, but the subsidy system specifically excludes it.
It's not incorrect, but in the context of the given Hacker News submission it reads as "why fund Python at all?"
The battery is optional, and from the ad copy not intended to power active “use” only moving between different (presumably nearby) work locations without shutting down (probably sleep.)
Projection. The Republican pitch was to start hunting their enemies, so he and a lot of other people assumed the reverse applied too.
Do you have a better link that can help people understand the gist of his political opinions that isn't Wikipedia?
Do you ever use git bisect?
I like to keep a linear history mainly so I don't have to think very hard about tools like that.
Sadly, Scott Adams' political opinions came to overshadow Dilbert, but I shall choose to remember him as Dilbert's creator and how Dilbert captured a moment in time and work so aptly.
Back when Dilbert was massive my company ran the following ad in cinemas in Silicon Valley: https://imgur.com/a/ZPVJau8 Everyone seeing that ad knew what we were referring to.
So they really all look the same, it's not just prejudice!
Russia's interest in Scottish independence begins and ends with the British nuclear deterrent.
Somehow I don't think Apple is going to put Adobe out of business.
Guess the Iranians are heading in the wrong direction then.
I am still waiting for "XCode for iPadOS", where we can have a Smalltalk like approach to development, beyond what Swift Playgrounds allows for.
Yeah, a lot of this is just .. well, I hesitate to use the over used phrase "deep state", but a lot of it is the work of people in the security institutions who "advise" the government, rather than the changing cast of the thin democratic bit on the front. There's long been authoritarianism in response to the fear of terrorism, from the IRA onwards. Then there's things like the "spycops" scandal, which make you wonder whether certain protest groups are deliberately engaging in really unpopular stunts in order to facilitate a crackdown.
The British public are in an odd place on this. There's a lot of "folk libertarianism", but that mostly consists of not having ID cards, while at the same time supporting all sorts of crackdowns on protest as soon as it's mildly inconvenient.
And then there's immigration. As in the US, it's a magic bullet for discourse that allows any amount of authoritarianism (or headshots to soccer moms) as long as you promise it will be used against immigrants.
What I care about is the non-existent Firefox strategy, but Mozilla is making me not care to fully embrace ChromeOS Platform.
This is true for A1 or ketchup.
If you order a steak au poivre, it’s gonna have sauce.
> Russia and friends would seem to have an interest in Scottish independence as it undermines the UK.
But so do Scottish people.
"if you had to meet a stranger in New York City on a specific day, with no way to communicate beforehand, where would you go?"
The answer to that in San Francisco was once "meet me by the clock", which is in the lobby of the St. Francis Hotel.[1]
"There’s no easy way to sugarcoat this, so I’ll just come out and say it: it is possible that the entirety of California is built on top of one immensely large organism, and the particular spot in which the Westin St. Francis Hotel stands—335 Powell Street, San Francisco, 94102—is located directly above its beating heart."
That clock is a master clock, synchronizing the other clocks in the hotel. In the past, the synchronizing signals from that clock drove some other clocks in the downtown area. So it really is the beating heart of the city.
The clock was recently overhauled, and is acting as the master clock again. For years, the hotel's time signals were coming from an electric motor clock and then a quartz time standard. But they've reverted to the pendulum clock. Error is about 5 seconds a month.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGK_OaMVPUs