sure, so red flag warning is sort of high fire risk condition, not to evacuate but to get people ready just in case. generally they monitor things like winds, humidity, and something that they call dry fuel (actually a firefighter explained this to me as something fairly critical but no certain way to tell). when the conditions are sort of amenable to creating a fire, they flag the risk with a red flag warning
so if you are in the zone some prep helps, keeping phone charged, car keys handy ...
I read up more - the 91 Oakland hill fire started small in one zone and pushed outside the initial zone into populated areas, so did the 23 lahaina, started inland burnt the whole town and it actually went crazy claiming over 100 lives. 25 palisades is more recent and rode the 100mph winds
feels silly that I did not realize that fires do not have zone boundaries, and warnings to adjacent areas are a deliberate choice. no one knows which way the wind blows. so glad it got called by the fire expert
HN doesn't like genai text, and I did use it to frame my post.
I emailed hn@ . The mod confirmed it was the genai classifier that did this and offered to refresh it if I put in a hand-written description, which I did.
Everything out there either is overpriced, clunky or doesn't work. Took us a bit to get the pdf rendering right but it works now.
Another one is the navigation. Long chat UX in ChatGPT sucks, about time someone built some nav on top of it. I'm actually surprised ChatGPT UX team doesn't see this
so if you are in the zone some prep helps, keeping phone charged, car keys handy ...
autocomplete sounds fun, i'll try