Smooth surfaces in positive characteristic Let $K = \mathbb{F}_p$ be a field of positive characteristic $p > 0$. Consider a surface in $\mathbb{A}^3_K$ of the following form
$$
S = \{f_1(x_0)y_0^2+f_2(x_0)y_0y_1+f_3(x_0)y_0+f_4(x_0)y_1^2+f_5(x_0)y_1+f_6(x_0) = 0\}
$$
where $f_i$ is a polynomial with coefficients in $K$ of degree $d_i$.
Assume that the $f_i$ are general. Is then $S$ smooth and if so is there any general result implying this?
 A: For infinite fields of characteristic $p$, the Zariski open definition makes pretty much as much sense as it does in characteristic zero. Often, but not always, the same argument works.
Over finite fields, A good definition of "random" was provided by Bjorn Poonen in his paper Bertini Theorems over Finite Fields. Specialized to your case, it says that the proportion of tuples of polynomials $(f_1,\dots, f_6)$ over $\mathbb F_q$, of degrees $(d_1,\dots, d_6)$, which satisfy your condition, has positive lim inf as $d_1,\dots, d_6$ tend to $\infty$.
Note that it is too much to ask for in this setting that the probability tends to $1$ - for smoothness results, it almost never does, since one can force a singularity with a congruence condition mod $x_0^2$, which has a positive probability of being satisfied.
In this case, a sufficient condition for smoothness is that the discriminant $\det \begin{pmatrix} f_1 & f_2 & f_3 \\ f_2 & f_4 & f_5 \\ f_3 & f_5 & f_6 \end{pmatrix}$ is a squarefree polynomial. One can lower-bound the probability of this using the main Theorem 2.2 of On square-free values of large polynomials over the rational function field by Dan Carmon and viewing this discriminant as a polynomial in whichever of the $f_i$ has the largest degree, treating the other $f_i$ as fixed.
If the $d_i$ are close together, one could also use classical analytic number theory methods such as the circle method to get an estimate.
