https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1905.11968/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33616873urn:hackerpapers:mention:1905.11968:33616873Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:45:26 GMT<p>The first thing I tried was &quot;Lipschitz selection&quot;, a somewhat overloaded phrase that I encountered a lot in graduate school. I guess I had in mind a summary of this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00325 but would have been happy with a description of work related to this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11968 or any number of other things. The page I got stated the following, obviously false, &quot;theorem&quot;: let M be a metric space, and let S be a subset of M such that inf_{y in S} d(x, y) &lt; infinity for all x in M. Then there exists a map f: M to S such that f(x) = x for all x in S. As far as…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1905.11968/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DS