Missing hard disk space. What should I do?

Last night, my available diskspace was 20.02GB, I woke up then it became 16.41GB. I got scared so I restarted my computer then it became around 14GB. It came into my mind that it may just be the effect of sleepimage so I decided to delete the sleepimage but it only got reverted back to 16.41GB. I don't know where the other available space has gone. I'm not downloading anything or even doing anything. What could have happened and what should I do?

It didn't solve the problem.
The terminal says:
Buko-Joes-Venomous-Apple:~ JENEE$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            424.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                75.2 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            OmniDiskSweeper        *67.1 MB    disk1
Buko-Joes-Venomous-Apple:~ JENEE$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
Buko-Joes-Venomous-Apple:~ JENEE$ df -m /
Filesystem   1M-blocks   Used Available Capacity   iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2    404357 390520     13587    97% 100037183 3478439   97%   /
Buko-Joes-Venomous-Apple:~ JENEE$ sudo du -ms /Users/*
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