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[cleanup] CI test updates; mypy cleanup; partial broadcast_object cleanup; pre-commit documentation (#744)

* changelog; mypy; oss cleanup

* more broadcast_object cleanup in FSDP

* one more mypy fix

* retire pytorch 1.6 from circleci, add new lightly, add 1.8 LTS and 1.9 stable release

* update torch version for LTS

* minor fixes

* update cache key

* trying newer gpu VMs

* bump the cache

* update to gpu.medium, which should be 2 GPUs

* update nightly version

* add pre-commit instruction

* fixed CHANGELOG after merging

* updated to newer nightly

* retained the older broadcast function for older GPUs for oss.py

* fixed a bug

* added a comment

* fixing a test for pytorch 1.10

* testing a fix

* Update fairscale/optim/oss.py

* Update CONTRIBUTING.md
Co-authored-by: Min Xu <min.xu.public@gmail.com>