Agreed. The archive uses the first line of the newsletter as the summary. I've been using the same tagline as the first line. But, for future newsletters, I think I'll make the first line more descriptive. E.g., for the most recent: "Maternity leave, art collections, firearm dealers, New Guinea languages, and aircraft-wildlife strikes." Would that be an improvement?
One of the very, very few "Show HN's" I would give an A+ for the idea. Even better would be a focus on FTP, e.g., datasets available as bulk data without silly "API's". In the early days of the internet posting about such datasets was quite common. Meanwhile I have to continually write flex scanners to transform MySQL and JSON into something useable with kdb (someday maybe I can do all the munging in q). Not to mention all the "scraping". But I am so used to cutting through Javscript and other cruft it does not bother me anymore.
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Most recent edition, sent yesterday: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural...
It would be helpful if each past issue in the archive list would tell what sets it presents, instead of all having the same subtitle...?
And I am thinking about starting the same thing, but for my own country. The current links are almost exclusively from the US.
Dataset discovery. A+ for idea.