Run `cibuildwheel` on Apple silicon to publish pre-compiled macOS ARM binaries

[janosh]

Just noticed our current release is missing macOS ARM wheels.

https://inspector.pypi.io/project/chgnet/0.2.1

Luckily, GitHub just started offering hosted Apple Silicon runners 2 days ago.

[radeva]

@janosh In case you need free M1 runners, you can try FlyCI's M1 and M2 runners. They are on average 2x faster and 2x cheaper than GitHub's AND we have a free tier for OSS projects (see below).

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1. Install FlyCI app and
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jobs:
 ci:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
+    runs-on: flyci-macos-large-latest-m1
   steps:
   - name: 👀 Checkout repo
     uses: actions/checkout@v4

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