For anyone reading this, I thought S3 was referring to the AWS S3 and was really...

jll29 · 2024-09-04T08:16:23 1725437783

Me too - to those using acronyms and other abbreviations in their writing, even "obvious ones": it is a good practice to introduce what each stands for the first time it gets used.

  ACL = Access Control List / Association for Computational Linguistics
  AAA = Authentication Authorization, Accounting / American Automobile Association / Triple-A Battery Size
  ...
  S3  = AWS Simple Storage Service / ACPI Sleep States: S3 is one of them, they range from S0 - S5) / Suspend-to-Idle (S0ix) "Windows 10" mode selected in system firmware, "s2idle" selected in /sys/power/mem_sleep, and Suspend-to-RAM (S3)

echelon · 2024-09-04T07:55:02 1725436502

Same! It's unfortunate that the names collide. I was also totally confused.

From the article,

> Traditional Sleep requires all system hardware and software components to work together. The operating system must support Sleep, as well as the hardware (e.g. CPU) and the BIOS/UEFI. According to the UEFI to Hardware Interface Standard (ACPI), this usual form of sleep is referred to as S3. S3 is a Sleep State in which all system components, except for the RAM and CPU Cache, are powered off.

kristianp · 2024-09-04T08:12:19 1725437539

I agree, the term "S3 Sleep" would be better, I think it would be understood by many in the audience of HN.