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If you want to assign people to groups randomly, why not just something like:

  import random
  import numpy

  people = [...]
  min_size = 3

  random.shuffle(people)
  groupings = numpy.array_split(people,len(people)//min_size)


Correcte if I'm wrong but the post was about determining the number of groups and their size, not actually assigning people to them.


The article starts with "We've been experimenting with breaking up employees into random groups (of size 4)." How does stopping at a list of group sizes (numbers) help you do that?


Idk but that's what the article did


"'Elementary' means that very little is required to know ahead of time in order to understand it, except to have an infinite amount of intelligence."


Is there a (business, legal, etc.) reason for the distinction between one-to-few and one-to-many? Both are one to "more than one".


Looks like I misread your comment when posting my other reply (I was talking about one-to-one). Sorry about that.

I'm not sure what the few/many distinction is about, but I can guess: if they only said "one-to-many" it could be unclear whether "many" means "more than one" or "some sufficiently large number", so they include "few" to remove ambiguity. Said another way: "one-to-few and one-to-many" is just a different way to say "one to more than one". As far as I can tell the new guidelines don't use the few/many distinction anywhere and only mention both in this one sentence.


I assume the business case is mostly about PR. "Apple takes 30% of my math tutor's income" sounds worse than "Apple charges Epic Games 30%".


I don't understand. I think Apple is taking 30% from both of those.


> If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person experiences between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments.

So you can avoid the Apple tax if you're a private tutor.

However it looks like I misread blueicecubes' comment. They were asking about one-to-few vs one-to-many, but I talked about one-to-one.


This was discussed a year ago at length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563


latency


> "good moderation"

pun intended


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