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I requested access when it was released.

Other HN readers, how many days did it take you from requesting access to Claude to having API access? I didn't use it prior to 100K so I don't have an existing API account.

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Requested access way before 100k and still haven't gotten in.

Could you send me an email? I've liked a few of your comments, want to say hi over email. Email in profile.

Creepy

Can someone else chime in and let me know whether they agree? Seems like the equivalent of a twitter DM to me, but maybe I'm out of touch.

I've tried to google the person you replied to, and it they seem to have many social/online media profiles that allow direct contacting. In that case I think publicly reaching out isn't the best way to go and seems out of place, imo.

Good call, I didn't think to do that - thanks

Don't think it's particularly creepy and I did send one like you asked, but my email is in my GitHub anyway and not particularly hard to find.

Generally, some might not feel comfortable letting strangers know their email, especially considering this is a site that encourages anonymity. Some might not appreciate doing so publicly either.

I think it's pretty inappropriate. If you have a legit reason to reach out, then you can find a way to do it privately. Letting your private intentions leak into public forums is a bad look and a red flag. If I were the person you are replying to, I'd do my best to not interact with you on the basis of your comment.

How? There’s no PM feature on HN. This is the only way if the username is unique enough.

Tough luck then I guess? I suppose I don't see the need to have access to every individual on a private basis merely because they comment somewhere on the internet. If they welcomed private interactions, then they would indicate a means of contact in their profile.

I mean, if the person being contacted doesn’t want to be contacted privately, they’re free to ignore the request. No one’s saying they “need” access or that someone else is fully obligated to talk to them privately.

Just reminding you that the commenter asked for others to offer their take on whether or not the request was perceived to be creepy. I didn't go out of my way to offer unsolicited commentary on this.

If you don't want to hear that you are wearing an ugly shirt, don't ask an entire room full of people if your shirt is ugly.

Ok, but you haven’t explained _why_ this would be inappropriate. If there’s no other way to contact sb, I’ll reach out with a comment where I can. I did this on twitter once. Worst that can happen is that I get no answer, but I don’t see any creepiness.

I suppose most people on HN don’t include a public address in their profile because it’s not required (not even your email is required), not because they don’t want any direct interaction.

If I were a human being reading your comment I would infer that you were highly judgmental and thought other people were mostly like you, looking for an excuse to be hostile and dismissive. Thankfully I know that most people are at worst indifferent and there’s a large very friendly, helpful minority and even more who will do small favours out of kindness. The more we make it clear that most people are not like you the more we make the world a better place.

The Internet is full of individuals with weird intentions. I don't at all see how being conservative in the kind of interactions one allows for is a bad idea.

Not creepy at all, although I'd spend 5 minutes checking if I can find the person on Google and then message them via different channels.

If not, I'd leave a way for contacting me first to make it easier for them.

The way I handle these situations: https://sonnet.io/posts/hi

it's fine. I second trying to find a clearly publicized contact channel first, but it's fine and leaves it to the person to reach out or not. (If they don't leave it at that though)

Some people, the kind of people who use the word cringe unironically, live in a world where other people look at them and judge them all the time and they care about what these strangers think and will mole their personality and behaviour to avoid this. They stand as a warning to others not too be like that.

I disagree that it's creepy. It's more just unusual. But people on HN are quick to judge the slightest thing. I think being a programmer does that to one's brain, unfortunately.

I think this is the non regular part: "I've liked a few of your comments". You can directly ask for email/contact, there is nothing wrong with that.

This is not creepy at all. Sometimes people can reach out because they genuinely want to have a nice conversation.

Yeah me too, waiting patiently as context windows are our biggest blocker on more complex chemistry simulations

Interesting use case, would you be open to sharing more information on how you're using LLMs for chemistry simulations?

Not the person you responded to but these two interesting papers kind of tackle that.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05376

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05332

Same here. Been waiting for a couple of months now.

been a couple months for me as well. Actually forgot about `claude` and have just been using OpenAI's API instead.

Randomly gained access long after I had forgotten I signed up, maybe 3 or 4 months

I requested access on March 14th or 15th and got it on March 20th.

Did you fill in the form with super compelling use case or something?

did any of you get a confirmation mail or something?

Nope. Nothing. I’ve been waiting since they released it. Part of me thinks it might be because I responded yes to “Outside of the US”.

thanks. I'm non-US, too, but really can't remember when I requested initially. Hope I didn't bump myself down by doing it twice.

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