diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 306f3199ef..66a30709f7 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -48,10 +48,16 @@ repos:
     - id: blacken-docs
       additional_dependencies: [black==22.6.0]
 
+-   repo: https://github.com/asottile/yesqa
+    rev: v1.4.0
+    hooks:
+    - id: yesqa
+
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
     rev: 5.0.2
     hooks:
     - id: flake8
+      args: ["--count", "--statistics"]
 
 -   repo: https://github.com/nbQA-dev/nbQA
     rev: 1.4.0
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index dbe241c62f..68e3d21f79 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -56,5 +56,3 @@ console_scripts =
 # E501: line too long
 extend-ignore = E203, E402, E501
 max-line-length = 88
-count = True
-statistics = True
diff --git a/src/pyhf/infer/__init__.py b/src/pyhf/infer/__init__.py
index ee84736c9e..5aaaf2c1c6 100644
--- a/src/pyhf/infer/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pyhf/infer/__init__.py
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ def hypotest(
     return tuple(_returns) if len(_returns) > 1 else _returns[0]
 
 
-from pyhf.infer import intervals  # noqa: F401
+from pyhf.infer import intervals
 
 __all__ = ["hypotest", "calculators", "intervals", "mle", "test_statistics", "utils"]